1832.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 210.

Authority to
receive con-
tributions, and
to draw on
county com-
missioners for
$150.

ing said school house, and paying for the lot con-
demned, or otherwise procured as aforesaid, the said
trustees are hereby authorised to receive contributions
for the same from well disposed persons, and to draw
for any sum, not exceeding one hundred and fifty dol-
lars, on the county commissioners of Saint Mary's coun-
ty, who are hereby required to pay over said amount to
the trustees, or their order, upon their complying with
the requisitions of the said fourth section of the said act

of eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, chapter three
hundred and sixty-two.

School fund
received from
State.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the county com-
missioners of Saint Mary's county, are hereby required
to include the said school district laid out as aforesaid,
in the number of primary school districts for Saint,
Mary's county, and to distribute to the trustees afore-
said, such equal proportion or sum of money, as the
said school district may be emitted to, from the school
fund of said county, received from the Treasurer of
the State, in the same manner as if the said school dis-
trict had been provided for in the eighth section of the
act passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
thirty-eight, chapter three hundred and sixty-two.

District to
be included
among the pri-
mary school
districts.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the county com-
missioners of Saint Mary's county, the commission-
ers of primary schools for said county, and the trustees
hereafter to be appointed by the provisions of this act,
are hereby required and directed to include the school
district laid out as aforesaid, among the primary school
districts of Saint Mary's county, and they are respec-
tively required to extend the provisions of the act of De-
cember session, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, chap-
ter three hundred and sixty-two, so far as their duties
are defined in the same, to the school district laid out
as aforesaid, in the same manner as if said school dis-
trict had been included in that act.

Authority to
employ sur-
veyor.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That if the said trus-
tees, shall, in their discretion, require the services

of a surveyor, to lay out the lot or parcel of land re-
quired for the site of the school house, directed to be
built as aforesaid, they are hereby authorised to employ
some competent surveyor for the same, who shall be
allowed such compensation as the county commission-
ers of Saint Mary's county, shall deem adequate for
his services.

Authority to
levy.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the county com-
missioners of Saint Mary's county, are hereby author-
ised and required to levy upon the assessable property

of said county, a sum of money, not exceeding the