PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

this act, and the statements of children and apprentices,
required by the previous sections of this, act, and it shall
be the duty of the several tax collectors in said county
to make report, to the said board of education of all
charges on the assessment of their respective district, by
death or removal in or out of the district, of the persons
liable to said tax, or by any other cause, and the regis-
ter of wills of said county is hereby required to furnish
to the said board of education at their said annual meet-
ing, on the first Monday of July in each and every year,
an accurate statement of the names and ages of all
white children, whose indentures of apprenticeship have
been left in his office during the previous year for record,
with the names and residences of the persons to whom
they have been respectively bound; and it shall be the
duty of every person in said county who may be taxed
for and on account of his children, to furnish to the said
board of education, at their said meeting annually, a
statement of such children as during the post year may
have deceased, or passed beyond or come within the tax-
able ages, according to the provisions of this act, and
the said board of education at their said annual meeting,
in the month of July of each and every year thereafter,
shall sit and adjourn from day to day, until they shall
have adjusted the said assessment in conformity with the
reports and representations hereby required to be made,
and upon their own information with regard to the va-
rious subjects embraced therein, according to the best of
their judgment and ability; and when the said assess-
ment shall be so adjusted, they shall certify the same,
designating distinctly the changes made therein to the
commissioners of the county, on or before the first day
of August annually, and the said commissioners shall
cause the necessary corrections to be entered upon their
records annually, and shall levy the taxes authorised by
the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth sections of
this act, upon the said assessment as thus annually
modified, corrected and returned to them.

CHAP. 221.

SEC. 30. And be it enacted, That the schools to be
established under this act shall be open and free to
every white child or person between the ages of six
and twenty years, residing within the said county ,and

To whom open
and free.

within their respective school districts; provided, that
the trustees of any school district may, by consent of
the teacher, admit into their school any child re-
siding in an adjoining school district, if the admission
of such child does not operate to the exclusion of any
child belonging to, or residing within their own dis-
trict; but nothing in this act shall be so construed at

Proviso.