THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

school for the reception and tuition of scholars, they

CHAP. 303

shall give public notice thereof by advertisement, set

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

school district, and that all white persons residents in

said county, who may choose to send their children or

any orphan white child, who may reside in said county,

being under their care, shall be permitted to do so, and

have them taught gratis, which terms shall be stated

'in said notice.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the trustees of any

As to scite far

primary school district, in Kent county, may agree

school

with any owner or owners of any land which may or

shall be fixed upon as a scite for a school house, and if

In case of disa-

they cannot agree, or if such owner or owners be a

greement

feme covert or non compos mentis, under age or out of

the State, then on application of one of the trustees

aforesaid, to any justice of the peace for the county

aforesaid, the said justice shall issue his warrant un-

der his hand and seal to some one of the constables of

said county, to summon five inhabitants of said county

not related to the parties nor interested in the proper-

ty to be valued, to meet on or near the property to be

valued, at a day named in the warrant, not less than

ten nor more than thirty days after the issuing of the

same, and the constable shall on its receipt, summon

said five persons accordingly, and when so sum-

moned and met, they or a majority of them, after

having first qualified before some justice of the peace

of said county, by oath or affirmation, that they

will justly and impartially value the damages which

such owner or owners will sustain by the taking

of the property required by the trustees for the

scite of a school house, and the said commissioners

are hereby instructed in estimating said damages to

consider the benefits which will accrue to such owner

or owners from the erection of such school house and

to make the proper allowance for such benefit in their

return; the said return shall be signed by at least

Return

three of the commissioners, and returned by them to

the office of the clerk of Kent county court, and shall

To be recorded

there be recorded by said clerk amongst the land re-

cords of said county, and every such return shall as-