2394

LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1839.

AM ACT to create an additional Primary School District in Frederick
County .—1839, ch 97.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly of
Maryland, by the petition of sundry citizens of Frederick
county, stating therein that in the division of said county, into
primary school districts, they were included in districts num-
bers thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three and thirty-six, and that
a large number of them are now situated from two to four miles
distant from either of the aforesaid locations ; And whereas, by
said petition it appears, that said petitioners having furnished
themselves with a good and substantial school-house and lot,
conveniently located at their own expense, and it also appear-
ing by the said petition that in the event of creating a new dis-
trict as therein prayed, it will still leave a sufficient number of
scholars to each of the adjoining school districts, it appearing
reasonable ; therefore,

School dis-
trict estab-
lished.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Peter Warenfeldts, John Smith, Jacob Miller, John Nuce,
Isaac Widdle, Thomas W. Banks, Daniel Welter, John Miller,
of Daniel, David Weller, Peter Wile, George Colliflower,
George Clem, John Hahn, Daniel Wilhite, Henry Stouffer,
Eli Miller, Frederick Weller, Christian Harbaugh, Jacob
Creeger, George Shuff, Jacob Long, Henry Markel, Frederick
Wilhite, John Woolf, Daniel Stouffer, Christian Stouffer,
John Firor, John Colliflower, Cormack Baxter, Jacob Wile,
and Marian Smith, be, and the same shall hereby constitute
themselves into a primary school district, and shall be known
by the name of the centre school-house district, number
seventy-nine, and shall for its bounds embrace all the dwellings
of the aforesaid persons, which shall in no manner be changed
without it, be done agreeably to the several provisions of the
original acts of assembly in such cases made and provided.

Trustees to
be elected.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That there shall be an election
held at the said centre school-house on the last Saturday of
April next, and annually thereafter, for three trustees, who
shall be elected in the same manner as provided for in Decem-
ber session, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, chapter one
hundred and sixty-two, and by persons having the same quali-
fications as is provided for in December session, eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-eight, giving at least ten days notice by public
advertisements, previous to any such election, put up at two of
the most public places in said district.

Trustees to
have the
same pow-
ers and
duties.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when said trustees shall
have been duly elected as aforesaid, they shall be charged
with the same duties, and have the same powers vested in them,
as other trustees of primary schools of said county have under
the original acts of assembly, passed December session, eigh-