360 CALVERT COUNTY. [ART. 5.
SCHOOLS.

58*. On the second Tuesday in April in the year eighteen hun-
dred and sixty, there shall be appointed by the Orphans' Court
for Calvert county one person in each election district in said
county, to be denominated " The Board of Commissioners of
Public Schools for Calvert County," who shall hold their office
for four years from the said second Tuesday of April, eighteen
hundred and sixty.

59*. The judges of the Orphans' Court of said county shall be and
they are hereby authorized and required to fill any vacancy that
may occur in said board, and may remove any school commis-
sioners for incompetency or failure to perform any of the duties
required of them by this article, or whenever they are fully satis-
fied that the interest and prosperity of the schools require it.

60*. The said board of commissioners shall meet on or before
the second Tuesday of May next ensuing their appointment, and
organize as a board by the election from their own number of a
president, and shall annually elect a register not of their own
number, whose duty it shall be to keep a registry of all such
matters as the board may direct, who shall receive such compen-
sation therefor as may be by said board determined, not exceed-
ing fifty dollars per annum. The said board shall make all such
by-laws and regulations as they may deem necessary for their
government, and shall transact no business involving an expendi-
ture of any money unless a majority of the entire board be
present. They shall have power to divide the county into as
many school districts as they may deem necessary for public con-
venience, shall number and clearly define the metes and bounds
thereof, and from time to time create new ones as necessity may
require, and shall hold in trust for said county all the property
set apart for purposes of education belonging to the county, and
appropriate the same to the use of the public schools, but shall
not have the power to dispose of said property without the con-
sent of the county commissioners of said county.

61*. The said board of commissioners shall be commissioners
of the school fund of said county, and apportion equally among
the several school districts of the county the amount of school
fund the county shall be entitled to receive from the State, and
the amount levied by the county commissioners. They shall
prescribe rules and regulations for the management and govern-