1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 393

inhabitants or trustees, unless it plainly appears that

by such defect or informality, some undue advantage

was intended to be taken of the white male taxable vo-

ters of the district.

Eligibility of vo-

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all white male

ters

taxable inhabitants residing in the county, and own-

ing real or personal estate in more school districts

than one, shall be permitted to vote in every school

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district as a resident taxable inhabitant; Provided,

that in case of personal property, it shall not have been

removed into any such school district within one month

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next preceding such election; And provided, that the mere

hireing of servants out of the school district in which

the owners shall not reside, shall not entitle such own-

ers to vote in the district in which such servants may

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be hired out; And provided, that nothing herein contain-

ed shall exclude any qualified voter from the exercise

of his suffrage, who shall at any period, bona fide re-

move into any school district, and that all white male

inhabitants, subject in any manner to taxation, or con-

tribution for the support of primary schools in said

county, shall be deemed legal voters, qualified and en-

titled to vote at any district or other school meeting.

Annual report

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty

of the trustees in each of the school districts in Kent

county, to make an annual report, in the month of Oc-

tober, in each year, to the clerk of said county court,

in which they shall set forth the number of children

taught in the said district school, and the manner in

which the money received by the said trustees, for the

support of Primary Schools, may have been expended,

and it shall be the duty of the clerk of said county

court to publish in some newspaper, printed in the

Publish account

county, an abstract account of the whole number of

children taught in the primary schools in said county,

and also the amount of money received by him for the

support of said schools, and of the manner in which he

has apportioned the same, and to whom apportioned

and paid over.

Public notice to persons to send

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That so soon as the trus-

children

tees of any primary school district, in said county,

shall have organized and opened their said district