86 KENT COUNTY. [ART. 14.

SCHOOLS.

Chapter 110 amends Section 170, repeals and amends Section 174, and amends
Section 18O, and adds new Sections, as follows :

5. The one hundred and seventieth section is so amended in
relation to the election of trustees for primary schools, that in
school districts number seven, number eight and number nine,
in the fourth election district, of Kent county, and which com-
prehends Chestertown, and the adjacent territory, within the
limits of said three school districts, the white male taxable in-
habitants residing in said districts, as provided for in said
section, shall elect five trustees, who shall manage the affairs
and business of the said three several school districts, instead of
the fifteen trustees usually elected, and shall have and exercise
all the rights and powers, and perform all the duties that the
three boards of trustees have heretofore performed, but who
shall be constituted trustees for each district.

6. The one hundred and seventy-fourth section, which em-
powers the trustees to fix a day for the electing of trustees and
•clerks, is hereby repealed, so far as the same relates to the said
three school districts number seven, eight and nine.

7. The said qualified taxable male inhabitants in said three
school districts, shall assemble at the court house in Chester-
town, on the first Monday in April, in each year, and elect the
said trustees and clerk; but in case of failure to elect at the
said time and place, the old trustees, or a majority of them, may
appoint a day and place of election for trustees and clerk, and in
case of failure to do so for one month, the said taxable inhabi-
tants, upon notice, may call such meeting and hold such elec-
tion, and the existing board of trustees shall continue to act
until such new election; due notice, by publication, to be given
in all cases of election.

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8. The one hundred and eightieth section is so amended that
the trustees shall, in addition to the power of expulsion con-
tained in said section, have the power to make all suitable and