SCHOOLS.

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AN ACT for the promotion of Education in Allegany County, by means

of the Poor School Fund of said County. — 1836, ch. 106.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the commissioners of Allegany county, be and they are

Commis-
sioners to
be appoint*

hereby authorized to appoint three commissioners of each elec-

ed.

tion district in Allegany county, whose duty it shall be, or a

majority of them, to assemble in the respective election districts

of Allegany county, at such place as they may think proper to

appoint, at as early a day as may be practicable, and then and

there proceed to divide the said election districts into a suitable

To divide '

and convenient number of school districts, having reference to

into school
districts.

the creeks, roads, and so forth, for their boundaries ; it shall be

the further duty of the commissioners aforesaid, immediately

after the formation of the school districts, in their respective

election district, to describe and number the same, and deliver

Describe

the description and number thereof, in writing, to the clerk of

and number
the same.

the commissioners of Allegany county, whose duty it shall be

to lay the same before the said commissioners of Allegany

county, at their first meeting thereafter.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the said commissioners, as

Trustees;

soon as they shall be informed, according to the manner pre-

their duty.

scribed in the first section of this act, they shall proceed to ap-

point three trustees for each school district in the county, whose

duty it shall be to procure or erect school-houses in the respec-

tive school districts for which they shall have been appointed, at

or as near as can be, to the site determined upon by the com-

missioners for laying off the school districts ; and it shall be the

further duty of the said trustees, as soon as they have obtained

a school house, to inform the commissioners of Allegany county,

of the fact, in writing; it shall then be the duty of the said com-

missioners to appropriate such sum or sums of money, as in their

judgment may be necessary and proper, out of the poor school

fund of said county, to each and every school district in tho

county, for tuition only ; it shall be the further duty of the said

commissioners to appoint one of the trustees of each school dis-

trict as the treasurer thereof, to whom or to whose order, shall be

Treasurer.

paid by the treasurer of the school fund of Allegany county, all
money or moneys that may be appropriated by the said commis-

His duty,
&c.

sioners to said schools respectively ; and it shall be the duty of

the trustees of each school district to procure and make choice

of some competent person as teacher of said schools respec-

Teacher.

tively ; and they shall pay said teacher so much per quarter.

year or half year, as they may be enabled to do from the amount

of money which may be allowed to their school or schools by

the said commissioners, together with such sum or sums of

money as the said trustees may be enabled to procure by indi-

vidual subscription, for the maintenance and support of educa-