CHARLES COUNTY.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act relating to the
Public Roads in the several Counties thereto mentioned, passed Decem-
ber session, eighteen hundred and one, chapter fifty-four, so far as the
same relates to Charles County. — 1839, ch. 98.

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SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the first day April next, the public roads
in Charles county, shall be worked and kept in repair in the
like manner as is now prescribed by law, by the labour of
slaves and free persons of colour only, to be classed and warned
out by the several overseers thereof in the same manner as is
now provided by law.

Roads to be
worked by
slaves and
free persons
of colour.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That so much of the act and
the several supplements thereto, to which this is an additional
supplement, as may be inconsistent with or contrary to the
provisions of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed after
the first day of April next.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entiiled, on Act for the establishment of
District Schools in Charles County. — 1839, ch. 137.

Repeal.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Water M. Mill'ar, Hugh Cox, Francis Thompson, and Dr.
William Queen, be and they ate hereby appointed a board of
school commissioners for Charles county, who shall have power
and authority to hear and act upon all applications for laying off,
altering, increasing or diminishing the number of the school
districts in said county, and to adjust and settle the limits of
said district ; and it shall be their duty to change the lines of
said districts and to increase or diminish their number to suit
the convenience of the persons interested in said respective
schools.

Commit-
sioners ap-
pointed for
laying off,
&c. school
districts.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That in case any vacancy shall
happen in said board of school commissioners, it shall be the
duty of the remaining members of said board of commissioners
and their successors as soon as practicable, to supply the said
vacancy by the appointment of some suitable person living
within the election district in which the person whose place
may have become vacant shall have resided.

How va-
cancy in
board to be
filled.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful
for the children residing within any school district, to attend
any school of a district in which they may not reside, if the
same be nearer to said children, or otherwise more convenient
to them.

Children
may attend
school most
convenient.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the trustees of each district
school in Charles county, and their successors in office, or a
majority of them, shall meet at least four times in every year,
in stated quarterly meetings to be appointed by their own
ordinances, and at such other time as by their ordinances or by

Trustees to
meet
quarterly.