AETIOLB XVIII.

St. Mary's County.

CONTENTS.

SCHOOLS.

Chapter 67 adds the following Sections:

SEC. 1. The trustees of any school district may procure by
gift, purchase or devise, a site not exceeding five acres of land,
for the erection of a school house within their respective dis-
tricts, a due regard being had to centrality of location and other
conveniences necessary to a public school.

2. If the trustees of any school district shall not be able to
procure by gift, purchase or devise, a suitable site for a school
house, they may condemn a site not exceeding one acre, having
due regard to the rights and interests of the owner or owners of
land sought to be condemned, and confining such condemnation
in all cases, unless impracticable, to the outer borders of the
tract or parcel of land from which said condemned site shall be
selected.

3. In all cases in which it shall be necessary to condemn a
site, the trustees shall cause to be served on the owner of the
land to be condemned, a -notice in writing, signed by at least a
majority of a full board, of the place and time of viewing and
condemning such site, and they shall assess the value and
damages ; and such condemnation and assessed value and dam-
ages, shall be approved and certified to, by a majority of a full
board; and the said site shall be meted and bounded and certi-

	SCHOOLS—	SEC.	SCHOOLS—	SEC.
	Trustees to procure sites for		Right of appeal by owner of
	schools. .........................	1	land................. ...........	4
		2		6
	In case of condemnation, no-
	tice to be served................	3