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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

laid off into seven election districts, and annually on the first Mon-
day in May thereafter, to appoint five upright and intelligent men
for each election district, residents thereof, in said county, who shall
constitute a board of trustees for the management of the school
fund for the said districts respectively.

Interest to be

apportioned—
poor children
to be educated.

2. And be it enacted, That the interest of the school fund of
said county shall be annually apportioned by the levy court amongst
the said election districts, in proportion to the population of each,
and paid over to the presidents of the boards of trustees for the se-
veral election districts; and it shall be the duty of the presidents of
the boards of trustees respectively, to call a meeting of the several
boards as soon as convenient after the appointment of trustees are
made, for the purpose of selecting proper objects throughout their
districts for the application of the said fund; and the several trustees
of each board respectively, shall subscribe and send such poor child
or children so selected, to the nearest and best school in their respec-
tive neighborhoods for instruction, proportioning the number of
children to the amount of funds under their control; and the said
trustees, on being satisfied that the said child or children so subscrib-
ed have been sent to school, and received instruction as aforesaid,
shall at the end of every quarter, pay to the teacher of such child or
children, and take his receipt for the same, which said receipt shall
be a proper voucher for the president of the said board in his settle-
ment with the levy court, which is hereby required to be made with
the said court at their first meeting in May annually.

Repea1.

3. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the acts of as-
sembly relating to the said fund as may be inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed.

Passed Feb. 21
1822.

CHAPTER 216.

A further supplement to the act entitled, An act to incorporate a com-
pany to make a turnpike road leading to Cumberland, and for the
extension of the charters of the several banks in the City of Bal-
timore, and for other purposes.

Shares may be
subdivided.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the president, managers and company of the Cumberland
turnpike road, shall have power to subdivide into shares of
twenty dollars each, the capital stock of said company; and that
said certificates shall, when issued, be signed by the president, and
countersigned by the secretary, and sealed with the common seal of
said company, according to such rules as the president and mana-
gers thereof may from time to time adopt; which said certificates
shall be issued upon the application of any bank, or those who
may hold under any bank. They shall indicate the entire number of
shares, or subdivided into such smaller portions as the party inter-
ested may desire.

Elections— ra-
tio—vacancies.

2. Be it enacted, That at all succeeding elections for managers
of the aforesaid turnpike road, that each and every share of stock
subdivided as aforesaid, shall be entitled to one vote; and at all such
elections, each bank, or those who may hereafter hold a subdivided
interest under any bank interested in said turnpike company, shall
only vote for a manager or managers to represent their own several
and respective interests; and the number of said managers to repre-
sent each bank, or those holding the interest of any bank, shall be