1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND,

CHAP. 303.

the aggregate valuation of the real estate, and adding

the remaining two-thirds to the aggregate valuation of

the personal estate, shall assess and levy upon the

amount thus produced a certain rate or sum in every

hundred dollars, so as to produce the said sum of one

hundred and fifty dollars for each and every school

district in said county which shall have reported as

aforesaid, and in ascertaining the amount of each in-

dividual owner of property the same process shall be

observed, where real and personal property shall be

owned by the same individual, and where only person-

al estate is owned, the tax shall be laid upon the asses-

sed value of such estate according to the rate afore-

said.

Commissioners and Inspectors' office

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the office of com-

abolished

missioners and inspectors of primary schools, in Kent

county, be, and the same is hereby abolished, and that

the trustees of primary schools in each election dis-

trict of said county, or a majority of them, are hereby

Trustees to be

constituted a board of commissioners, invested with

commissioners

and empowered to exercise all the functions and duties

Powers

of commissioners and inspectors, except the examina-

tion of teachers, and that the trustees of each school

district shall have all the powers necessary to the ex-

amination, approval and employment of teachers, in

their respective school districts, which were given to

the commissioners and inspectors for that purpose, in

the original act to which this is a supplement.

Puty of trustees to call meetings

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty

of the board of trustees in each election district, or any

one of the trustees in said election district, may exer-

cise the power, to call district meetings as soon as con

venient, in all the school districts in their respective

election districts, where schools have not been organ-

Notice

ized and carried into operation, to make notice in wri-

ting, describing such district, and appointing a time

and place for the said district meeting, notifying the

white male inhabitants, subject in any manner by this

or other laws to school tax or charge, residing in such

district as aforesaid, by public advertisement to be set

up in at least three of the most public places of said

district, at least six days before the time of such meet-