78 ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. [ART. 2.

155. If notice shall not be given as aforesaid, or the taxable
inhabitants of' such district, when so notified, shall neglect- or
refuse to assemble or form a district meeting in pursuance of
such notice, or in case any district having been formed or organ-
ized in pursuance of such notice shall, in the opinion of the
commissioners aforesaid, be dissolved by adjournment without
day, or from any other cause whatever, the commissioners or
any of them may at any time renew such notice, and the tax-
able inhabitants of such district shall assemble in pursuance of
such notice.

156. The said inhabitants when so assembled in district meet-
ing, or a majority of them, may adjourn to any other time or
place, and at such first or any future legal meeting, they may fix
upon the time and place for their annual meeting, which annual
meeting they are hereby required to hold.

157. The free white male citizens of this State above the age
of twenty-one years, and actual residents of and taxable in said
district, respectively, shall be deemed the taxable inhabitants of
the respective districts.

158. The said inhabitants shall choose by ballot a district
clerk and three trustees to manage the concerns of the district;

and the clerk shall give bond, to the satisfaction of the trustees,
to keep the records and proceedings of the district meetings;

and the said inhabitants shall also designate a site for a school
house; and shall and may from time to time alter, regulate and
modify all such proceedings, or any part thereof, as occasion
may require; Provided, that no alteration as to the site of a
school house shall be made but by the consent of the county
commissioners.

159. The trustees of any district may, in their discretion, call
a special meeting of the inhabitants of the district, notice there-
of being given as aforesaid, and no district meeting shall be
taken or deemed illegal for defect or want of due notice to any
of the said inhabitants of such district, unless the omission to
give such notice be wilful and designed.

160. The clerk and trustees in each school district shall hold
their respective offices until the annual meeting of such district
next following the time of their election, and until a new election
shall have been made; and in case o£ a vacancy in any of said