15.  One School shall be erected in each County, at
the most convenient Place, near the Center of the
County, &c. at the Discretion of the Visitors.  1723,
ch. 19, §. 2.
    16.  Several Commissioners are appointed for each
County, and names Visitors, and invested with sufficient
Authority, for discharging the Duties and Trusts
reposed in, and required of them by this Act.  Ibid.
§. 3.
    17. The Visitors, so appointed, shall qualify by taking
the Oaths, &c. appointed by the Act of 1716, ch. 5;
and also the oath of a Visitor, viz. duly and faithfully
to discharge the Duties and trusts committed to him
as Visitor, &c.  And the same Oaths shall be administered 
to any Visitor, hereafter elected according to this
Act, by the Person first Named that shall be present.
Ibid.  §. 4.
    18.  The Persons so qualified, or the major Part of
them, shall be constituted Visitors of their County
School, and invested with full Power, as a Body Politic,
to Plead, and be Impleaded, Sue, or be Sued, &c.
in any Courts of this Province.  Ibid.
    19.  The Visitors, or any other Persons whatsoever,
have full Power to give, grant, &c. any Manors, Lands,
Tenements, Rents, &c. whatsoever, to the Visitors,
so incorporate, and their Successors for ever, to the
Value of 100 l. Sterling per Annum, for the Use of such
Schools.  Ibid.
    20.  The Persons so incorporate and their Successors,
shall be true and sole Visitors of such Schools, in perpetual
Succession, with full Power to make Laws,
Orders and Rules, for the good Government of the
Schools, from Time to Time, as they shall think fit.
Such Rules being no way contrary to the Royal Prerogative,
the Laws of England or of this Province, or
to the Canons, &c. of the Church of England.  Ibid.
§. 5 and 6.
    21.  For perpetuating the Succession of Seven Visitors
for each School:  Upon Death or Removal of any
Visitor out of the Province or County, the remaining
Visitors, or major Part of them, shall elect one or more
principal Inhabitants of the County, into the Place of
the Visitor or Visitors so dead or removed, so as to fill
up the full Number of Visitors for each School:  Which
Persons so elected, shall qualify as before mentioned.
Ibid.  §. 7.
    22.  The Visitors of each School, shall purchase 100
Acres of Land, or more, for the Use of such School,
having special Regard to the Conveniency, &c. as before
directed:  Of which Land they shall assign such
Part as they shall see meet (not exceeding the Moiety)
to be built upon, and Cleared for Corn, Grain and
Pasturage, for the Use of the Master; the other Moiety
to be preserved in Woodland Ground, and no
otherwise used by the Master (without Leave of the
VIsitors) than for necessary Fire-wood, and Repairs
of the Houses and Fences.  Ibid.  §. 8.
    23.  No Master, by himself or others, shall be
permitted to plant Tobacco on the School Land.
Ibid.
    24.  If there be no sufficient Building on the Land
so purchased, the Visitors shall employ Workmen, &c.
for building a Dwelling-House and necessary Conveniencies
for the Master, and keeping a School therein,
and for clearing Ground sufficient for the Uses aforesaid.
Ibid.
    25.  The Visitors shall take all proper Methods for
encouraging good School-Masters, who shall be Members
of the Church of England, of exemplary Lives,
and capable of teaching Grammar, Writing and Mathematics,
if such can be had.  Ibid.
    26.  Each Master (for the present) besides the Benefit
of the Plantation, shall have 20 l. per Annum:
And the Visitors shall take such future Measures, from
Time to Time, as may give due Encouragement to
one or more Masters, and be useful in improving, &c.
such School.  Ibid.

    27. The Visitors shall meet at least four Times a
Year, to consider and direct the Affairs of the School.
Ibid.  §. 9.
    28.  The Money already raised (viz.  by the Acts of
1704, ch. 27, and 1717, ch. 10, see above, Art. 11 and
13, and which then laid undisposed of, in the Hands of the
Public Treasurers) for the Use of County Schools, shall
be divided into Twelve equal Parts, according to the
Number of Counties, and the Treasurers to make due
Payment of one of the said Parts to the Visitors of
each County, or their Order, as they have Occasion
to draw for the same.  And the like Payment shall be
made by the Treasurers of the like Dividend, hereafter
arising due to such Schools:  Which Money the Visitors
shall, from Time to Time, dispose of as shall be
most for the Advancement of such Schools.  Ibid.  §. 10.
    29.  The Visitors of each County School are enabled
to hold any Manors, Lands, &s. given to the Use of
the said Schools, to the Value of 150 l. Sterling:  And
all other Goods, Chattels, Money, and Personal Estate
whatsoever, bestowed or bequeathed to the same
Use.  Ibid.  §. 11.
    30.  They are likewise authorized to receive all
Fines, &c. arising due to their several County Schools,
in whose Hands soever they may be lodged.  And, on
Refusal, or Delay of Payment, may recover the same,
according to the Powers given them as a Body Politic
by this Act.  All which shall be applied to the Uses
aforesaid.  Ibid.
    31.  The Visitors are impowered to appoint a Register,
and allow him a reasonable Salary; who shall keep
a fair Account of their Proceedings, Application of
Monies, &c.  Which Proceedings shall, at all Times,
be subject to the Examination of the General Assembly.
Ibid.  §. 12.
    32.  Persons appointed or elected Visitors, refusing
or delaying to act, shall forfeit 500 lb Tobacco, for
the Use of the School of that County.  Ibid.  §. 13.
    33.  If any Visitor of a Public School shall willfully
refuse or neglect to meet at the Times appointed for
the Meeting of the Visitors, so that the necessary Affairs
of the School cannot be transacted; the Majority
of Visitors meeting, shall chuse another Person in his
Room, who shall qualify as directed in the Act of
1723, ch. 19.  (See above, Art. 17 and 21.)  1728,
ch. 8, §. 2.
    34.  Masters of the Public Schools shall teach as
many poor Children, gratis, as the Visitors shall order, 
or immediately be discharged, and other Masters
put in.  Ibid.  §. 3.
    35.  The Visitors of the Free School of Kent County,
enabled to divide Part of the School Lands into 
Lots, and Lease the same out for the Use of the Master;
or, in case of Vacancy, the Rents to be applied
by the Visitors to the Benefit of the School, &c.  1741,
ch. 1.
    36.  Somerset County being divided, and a new County
erected thereout, by the Name of Worcester County,
Visitors are appointed for Worcester County School,
and invested with the same Powers as the Visitors of
other County Schools.  1746, ch. 7, §. 1, 2.
    37.  The Money arising within this Province, for
the Use of County Schools, which, after the 29th
September 1746, shall come into the Public Treasurers
Hands, shall be divided into Thirteen equal Parts:
And the Treasurers shall make due Payment of one of
those Thirteen Parts to the Visitors of Worcester County
School, &c. who are impowered to dispose thereof
as may be meet for the Encouragement, &c. of the
said School.  Ibid.  §. 3.
    38.  The Visitors of St. Mary's County School were
enabled to chuse Visitors by 1753, ch. 19; and were
enabled to sell the old School-House and Land, and
to purchase other Land whereon to build a new School-House,
by 1758, ch. 13.
39.  The Visitors of Worcester County School enabled
to purchase Four Lots in Snow-hill Town, and