JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1833.

CHAPTER 110.

CHAP. 110

An act to establish Schools in Queen Anne's county.

Passed Feb. 26,1834

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Piney" Neck, in Queen Anne's county,
as formerly laid off for a Primary School District, shall be
continued as a school district, for the purposes hereafter
mentioned, and that the taxable male inhabitants of said
district are authorised to meet at some convenient place,
and elect, by a majority of said inhabitants, three trustees,
who shall hold their offices till the next annual election,
and in default of such election by a majority as aforesaid^
shall continue to serve till the next annual meeting there-
after.

Piney neck district

Sec. 2. And beit enacted, That Valentine Bryan, Samu-
el Kirby, and Robert S. Bryan, who were chosen as trus-
tees by said inhabitants, at a meeting hold the twenty- first
of December last, are invested with all the powers confer-

Present trutees

ed by this act, upon the trustees hereafter to be elected.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That if any trustee, atter con-
senting to serve, shall resign before his time expires, or
neglect or refuse to discharge the duties imposed upon
him by this act, shall forfeit the sum of twenty dollars, to
be recovered in the name of the collector of said district,
or in the name of either of the trustees, in an action of
debt, before any justice of the peace of said county, and
applied to the use of the school of said district; and if the

Penalty for neglect
to serve as trusted

office of any trustee shall become vacant by the death of
such trustee, or his removal out of the district, or from any
other cause, the remaining trustees, or any three of the
taxable inhabitants of said district may by a written public
notice, call a meeting of such inhabitants, a majority of
which meeting shall elect another trustee to serve till the
next annual meeting.

Vacancies

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the trustees of said dis-
trict, shall have power to levy upon all the assessable pro-
perty of said district, except the property of coloured per-
sons, the sum of one hundred dollars, for repairing and
fitting up the school house now belonging to said district;
to levy annually on said property, a sum not exceeding three

Levy authorised

hundred dollars for the employment of a teacher; to em-
ploy a teacher and fix his salary; to adopt regulations for
the school, and to receive from the commissioners of the
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Employ teacher