1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 221.

children, until the schools to be provided for in this
act, are established and opened; and all certificates of
stock or State bonds and individual bonds and mort-
gages, or other evidences of debt, remaining in their
hands, not due or in course of collection, for and on
account of said fund, and also all books, papers, re-
cords, and accounts in their possession, or in the pos-
session of any officer of the said court, appertaining
to the said fund, its investment, apportionment, re-
ceipt, and disbursement; that the said justices of the
Orphans court of the said county, be and they are
hereby authorised, required, and directed to assign the
several bonds and mortgages which may be then held
by them, not due or in course of collection, for and on
account of the said poor school fund of the said
county to the said superintendent, which assignment
shall be in writing, and signed by at least two of
the said justices, and attested by the register of wills,
under the seal of the said Orphans court, and may be in

Form of assign-
ment.

the following form, namely: for and in consideration
of the provisions of an act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, entitled, an act to establish a system of
common schools in Cecil county, and to provide for
the support of the same; and in compliance with the
requirements thereof, and for and in consideration of
the sum of five dollars, to us in hand paid by A B,
who has been duly elected superintendent of common
schools in Cecil county, in accordance with the pro-
visions of the said act of Assembly, we the under-
signed, justices of the Orphans court of Cecil county,
do hereby assign, transfer, and make over to the said
superintendent, all the right, title, interest, and claim
of the said Orphans court, in and to the within bond,
and the mortgage executed to secure the same, which
said assignment or transfer shall be endorsed upon, or
annexed to each of the said bonds, and when so made
and attested, shall vest in the said superintendent and
his successors in office, full power and authority to
receive from the obligors and mortgagors in said bonds
and mortgages, and hold for the purposes of this act
the monies thereby secured; and with full power and
authority under and by the direction of the board of
education, to be certified by a resolution of the said
board, entered upon their minutes, to institute a suit
or suits in his own name, as superintendent of com-
mon schools in said county, for the recovery of said
money, or to transfer and release the said bonds and
mortgages according to law; and the said justices of
the Orphans court of the said county are also hereby re-