1831.

LAWS OP MARYLAND-

CHAP. 244.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said judges of the or-

phans' court, shall apportion the said donation, or sum, or

Apportionment of

sums of money, which they may receive from year to year,

donations amongst
the districts.

in the following manner, to wit: too hundred and fifty dol-

lars, shall be located in the upper district of said county,

and three hundred dollars in the middle district of said coun-

ty, and two hundred and fifty dollars in the lower district of

said county.

Commissioners to

Sec 3. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of mak-

apportion in the
upper district.

ing a fair and proper distribution of the several sums of mo-

ney appropriated to the several election districts of said

county, for the upper district, that Thomas Burchenell,

George Newlee,Thomas Clendining, James Roe, and Abra-

ham Jump, junior, shall be commissioners, or a majority of

them, to locate such schools in said district as they may

think proper, more particularly in such parts of said district,

as at the present time has no school house; and for the mid-

In the middle dir-

dle district, Doctor Marcelus Keene, Giles Hicks, Thomas

trict.

H. Baynard, Thomas S. Carter, and Willis Charles, or a

majority of them, shall be commissioners for the purpose

In the lower dis-

aforesaid; and for the lower district, Peter Willis, Tilgh-

trict

man Davis, Robert S Keene, Foster Willis, and Clemment

Hubbard, or a majority of them, shall be commissioners for

the purposes aforesaid, and the judges of the orphans court

Orphans Court to
pay over.

of the county aforesaid, are hereby authorised to pay over

to the said commissioners, out of the apportionment in each

district, upon an account being rendered, regularly drawn

up and proven according to law, two dollars per day, for

every day the said commissioners shall have been engaged

in the services aforesaid, which said commissioners shall re-

Commissioners to
account.

port to the judges of the orphans' court, the number of

schools they have located in each district, on or before

the first Monday of October next.

Trustees of schools

Sec. 4. And be it enacted. That after the said commis-

sioners have made location of such schools in the several

districts of said county as aforesaid, that the citizens in the

immediate neighbourhood of said schools, shall and may

select from among themselves, not less than three, nor more

than seven trustees, who shall, or a majority of them, take

charge of the government of said schools, and in no case the

same person shall act as trustee in any more than one school

in said county.

Case of location

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That in all cases, where the

where there is no
school house.

location for a school, or schools in any of said districts,

should be where there is no school house, notwithstanding

the citizens in the immediate neighborhood shall and may

proceed to appoint or select their trustees for the good