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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
as trustees of the school of said section, and shall cause the clerk
of the county to make out and transmit to the first named trustee
of each section a copy of the description and designation of the
section of which he is a trustee. |
Commissioners to
take an oath. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
before
they proceed to act as such, shall take an oath, or affirmation, as
the case may be, well and faithfully, and without favour, affection
or partiality, to execute the duties assigned them by this act. |
Voters to determine
means of procuring
ground, &c. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said trustees in
each of said sections,
so soon as they shall deem it convenient after their appointment,
shall notify the voters of their respective sections, in such
manner as they shall consider most convenient and proper, to meet
at such time, not less than ten days, and at such place in the section
as said trustees may appoint, to consider and determine of the
best means to procure a suitable lot or piece of ground and school-house
for the use and accommodation of said section, and said
voters for each section, or a majority of them, shall have power
and authority to judge and determine whether the said piece or lot
of ground and school house shall be procured by voluntary contribution,
or by an equal and proportionable tax on the assessed property
of said section; and the said trustees shall have power to
collect and receive subscriptions, and money, if the said voters
shall determine to resort to voluntary contribution, and to levy
and assess the sum fixed on by said voters upon the property of
the section, should said voters, or a majority of them, determine to
resort to a tax. |
Trustees to collect
money. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said trustees shall
have full
power and authority to collect all monies which may be voluntarily
offered or subscribed, and upon default of any subscriber to pay
the amount of his subscription, to recover the same by the same
legal means that any person in this state may or can recover any
debt of equal amount which may be due them, and to appoint such
as they may think proper to collect the several sums which may be
levied as herein before authorised, which said person, so appointed,
shall have all the power and authority to collect the same which
the county collector now has or may hereafter have. |
| —To elect a president. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees of
each of said sections
shall elect one of the said trustees as their president, who
shall preside in all their meetings, and authenticate by his signature
the acts of said trustees; and said president and trustees shall
have full power and authority to make all rules and regulations,
from time to time, for the government of the schools of their respective
sessions, and the same to alter, change and abolish, as they
may think proper. |
Succession of
trustees, how to be
kept up. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said trustees,
so appointed, shall
continue to serve as trustee until the first Monday in May after
their appointment as aforesaid, on which first Monday in Mary, and
so on the first Monday in May in every successive year, the
voters of the section shall assemble, at such place as the trustees
shall have ten days previously appointed, and by ballot elect five
trustees for the ensuing year, which said trustees, when so elected,
shall have, use and exercise, all the power and authority given to
the herein first before named trustees, for and during one year,
and until other trustees may be elected in their stead. |
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