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MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

	adjournment without day, or from any other cause whatever, it shall be lawful for said managers, or any one of them, to renew such notice at any time thereafter, and whenever the citizens of said district, shall assemble in pursuance of any such notice, a majority of those present may adjourn from time to time, as oc- casion may require, and at any such meeting authorized as afore-
Manager shall attend.	said, occurring one in each and every year, the manager resident in said district shall attend, and a majority of the citizens pre-
Elect three trustees.	sent shall choose by ballot, three sensible and discreet persons as trustees, to manage the concerns of such school district, and said meeting shall designate a site for a school-house, vote a tax on the property in such school district, sufficient, in addition to the proportion of the school fund allotted to such school district, to
Fix school- house site.	purchase, lease or rent a site for a school-house, to build, lease or rent and keep in repair said house, to supply fuel, books, stationery and furniture, to pay the salary of a teacher and all
Change of location.	other necessary expenses ; Provided however, that no location of a school-house shall be fixed upon, unless the same be ap- proved by a majority of said managers, and no change shall be made after such school-house shall be built, but by consent of a majority of the said managers, unless a majority of the said managers consenting thereto, all the expense incurred by making such change, shall be defrayed by donation, or by levies authorized to be made by a majority of the citizens of such school district, upon the assessable property therein.
Organiza- tion of such meetings. Report pro- ceedings.	SEC. 9. And be it enqcted. That all meetings of citizens of school districts held for the purposes aforesaid, shall be organ- ized by appointing a president and clerk, pro tempore, who shall take minutes of the proceedings, specifying particularly the amount of tax voted by said meeting, and deliver the same, certified under the hands and seals, within ten days after such
To be recorded .	meeting to the manager of the election district, in which such meeting is held, to be by him delivered to the clerk of the said managers and by him to be recorded in a book to be kept for the purpose.
Levy of school dis- trict tax.	SEC. 10. And be it enacted. That all tax to be voted by the free white citizens of any, and every school district in said county, under and by virtue of this act, shall be levied on all the assessable property in said district, agreeably to the as- sessments of the late preceding county tax excepting never- theless, the property assessed to and actually owned by free negroes.
Case of col- lector find- ing no pro- perty.	SEC. 11. And be it enacted. That when any land, in any school district in said county, may become chargeable for the payment of any school tax, and the collector can find no per- sonal property in said school district liable for, or chargeable with, the payment of the same, the said collector shall return