SCHOOLS,

1801

Sue. 4. And be it enacted, That after the said commissioners
have made location of such schools in the several districts of
said county as aforesaid, that the citizens in the immediate
neighbourhood of said schools, shall and may select from
among themselves, not less than three, nor more than seven
trustees, who shall, or a majority of them, take charge of the
government of said schools, and in no case the same person
shall act as trustee in any more than one school in said county.

Trustees of
schools.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That in all cases where the loca-
tion for a school, or schools, in any of said districts, should be
where there is no school-house, notwithstanding the citizens in
the immediate neighbourhood shall and may proceed to appoint
or select their trustees for the good government of the said
school or schools agreeably to the fourth section of this act,
and the said trusteed may ptoceed to build a house or houses
for the purposes aforesaid, and when built and prepared for the
reception of a school or schools, they shall certify the same to
the judges of the orphans court aforesaid, who shall and may
pay over to the said trustees or their order, their distributive
portion of the fund appropriated to the said district in which
said house or houses shall be built, agreeably to the number
of schools which shall have been returned as established by
the said commissioners, which said trustees may apply the
first year's apportionment to assist in the building said school-
house or houses, as the case may be.

Case of
location
where there
is no school-
house

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That when the said schools shall
have been organized as aforesaid, and having procured a
teacher or teachers approved of by the trustees thereof, and
have made up the number of at least fifteen legularly sub-
scribed scholars for the year, residents of said county, and
continued therein for the term of one year, the same having
been certified to the said orphans court, by the respective trus-
tees in the several schools in the several districts, shall be en-
titled to draw from the said or phans court, their distributive
portion of the donation to the said district respectively, for the
payment of their teacher or teachers, which they may have
had employed for and during the term aforesaid, which pay-
ment shall be made by the said court in the month of Decem-
ber annually.

Requisite
to entitle to
donation.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That if any of the commissioners
appointed for the different districts of said county, by virtue of
this act, should lefuse or neglect, or in any wise become inca-
pable to act, that the other commissioners are hereby autho-
rized to fill such vacancy or vacancies, as the case may be, for
the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act.

Vacancies.

SEC. 8. Ana* whereas, it appears that there is an ambiguity
in the law, making a distribution of the donation to the Hills-
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Preamble.