SCHOOLS.

AN ACT to authorize the Levy Court of Worcester County to draw from
the Treasury, or any of the Banks of the State, any amount of Money
which now is, or may be allotted by the Treasurer of this State, for the
purposes of education in Worcester County. — 1831, ch. 187.
Merged in 1838, ch. 371.

AN ACT to authorize the appointment of Commissioners, and the division
of Worcester County in School Districts, and for other purposes therein
named.— 1835, ch. 163.
Repealed by 1836, ch. 279.

AN ACT to authorize the appointment of Commissioners, and the division
of Worcester County in School Districts, and for other purposes.
1836, ch. 279.

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SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall be the duty of the levy court of Worcester
county, on or before the first Monday in July next, to appoint
five discreet and suitable persons residing on the east side of
the Pocomoke river in said county, to act as commissioners,
whose duty it shall be or a majority of them, to assemble at
some convenient place, on or before the first Monday of Sep-
tember next, and to proceed to divide that part of Worcester
county, lying on the east side of said river, into a suitable and

Levy court
to appoint
five com-
missioners
E. of P.

convenient number of school districts, and it shall also be the
duty of the levy court aforesaid to appoint five suitable and
discreet persons, residing on the west side of the Pocomoke
river, to act as commissioners, whose duty it shall be or a
majority of them, to assemble at some convenient place on or
before the first Monday of September next, and proceed to
divide that part of said county, lying on the west side of said

To lav off
school
districts.
Five com-
missioners
W. of P.

river, into a suitable number of school districts, and it shall be
the further duty of the commissioners aforesaid, immediately
after the formation of said school districts in their respective

To lay of
districts.

portion of said county, to describe and number the same, and
to deliver the description and number thereof in writing, to
the clerk of said county, who is hereby required to receive
and record the same in his office.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
said commissioners on each side of said river, or a majority of
them respectively, at the same time that they describe and
number the said school districts, to report to the levy court of
said county the number of school districts in their respective

Report
required.

Recorded.

Report to
levy court
required.

portions of said county, with a description of the same, and
the probable cost of erecting a school-house in each school
district ; the house to be of plain and substantial materials of
such size as the commissioners may deem necessary, together
with the probable cost of the site of each, or if there should
be in any of said districts a school-house suitably situated,
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Cost of
school-
houses.