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PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY.

AN ACT, entitled, an Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, an Act for the
encouragement of Primary Schools in Prince George's County. — 1838,
ch. 61

Six com-
missioners.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland
That the levy court of Prince George's county, be, and they
are hereby authorized and directed to appoint at their next re-

To lay off
into schuol
districts.
Report pro
ceedings.

gular meeting, six commissioners, one to be chosen from each
election district in said county, whose duty it shall be to divide
the said county into so many school districts as the public inte-
rest and convenience may require, and report their proceed-
ings to said levy court under oath ; and it shall be the duty of

Record
thereof.

said levy court to record in a suitable book to be provided for
that purpose, the report and proceedings of said commission-

Compensa-
tion.

ers, who shall be paid fur their services such compensation as
the said levy court may in their discretion allow.

Twelve
trustees to
be appoint-
ed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That as soon as the said commis-
sioners shall have laid out the said school districts and made a
report of their said proceedings, the said levy court shall ap-
point on the levy-laying day, in the year eighteen hundred

Two for
each dis-
trict.

and thirty-nine, and annually thereafter, twelve persons, two
to be chosen from each election district in said county, who
shall be trustees of the school fund for said county, and whose

Erection of
school-
houses.

duty it shall be to contract for and superintend the erection
and construction of the necessary school-houses in said dis-
tricts, and for that purpose the said trustees shall have power
to condemn any land, on which to erect said school-houses for
the public use, and to value the same, the owner or owners of
which shall be paid therefor, according to said valuation in the
manner herein after provided for.

Authority
to draft for
money.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said trustees shall have
power to draw upon the orphans court of said county for such
sum or sums of money, parcel of said school fund, as may be
necessary to discharge all or any portion of said expenses,
and for the payment of the valuation of all such land as may
have been condemned by them for the purposes aforesaid,
which said drafts, the said orphans court shall order to be paid
to the persons repectively entitled thereto, and the said trus-

Annually to
account.

tees shall account annually, under oath, to the levy court of
said county, for all sums that may have been expended or
directed to be paid by them in the discharge of the duties
hereby imposed upon them.

May em-
ploy teach-
ers.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That as soon as the said school-
houses, or any of them, shall have been erected and com-
pleted, the said trustees shall have power to employ teachers
for the same, upon such terms as they, or a majority of them,
may deem proper, and it shall be the duty of the said levy
court annually thereafter, at their regular levy-laying meet-