400 CAROLINE COUNTY. [ART. 6

188. The said persons so appointed, or a majority of them,
immediately on notice of their appointment, shall give notice in
writing to be put up at least in three public places in said dis-
trict, which shall be at least ten days before said election takes
place, and the time at which the polls shall be opened shall be at
one o'clock in the afternoon, and they shall remain open until
six o'clock in the afternoon, at which time all persons residents
of said school district legally entitkd to vote at the State elec-
tions may vote by ballot for five persons for trustees whose
names shall be written or printed therein, and at the time the
ballot is given, the judges aforesaid shall ask the voter whether
he is in favor of or against primary schools, and if a majority of
the voters shall be in favor, then it shall be declared a primary
school; and the judges aforesaid shall return a list of the votes
cast for and against, with the poll books, under their hands and
seals, to the Register of Wills of said county, to be filed by him,
with other papers relating thereto, and the five persons voted for
receiving the greatest number of votes shall be declared elected.

189. The trustees elected as aforesaid shall serve for three
years from the day of election, or until others are elected in like
manner to fill their places; and in case of a vacancy in said
board of trustees, the remaining trustees shall have power to
fill such vacancy until a new election.

190. The trustees shall elect one of said trustees as their pre-
sident, who shall preside in all their meetings, and authenticate
by his signature the acts of said trustees, and said president
and trustees shall have power to employ a teacher or teachers,
and to make all rules and regulations from time to time for
the government of the schools of their respective districts, and
the same to alter, change and abolish, as they may think
proper.

191. The aforesaid trustees shall have full power and au-
thority in all the primary school districts to levy upon all the
assessable property within the limits of their respective districts
a sum not to exceed twenty cents in the hundred dollars for any
One year, and said levy to be made according to the county
assessment, which assessment shall be copied from the com-
miBsionerB' records for said county, in a book to be kept by the
trustees for that purpose, -which shall be corrected annually be-
fore the levy is made.