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KENT COUNTY. [ART. 14.

rights and powers, and perform all the duties that
the three boards of trustees have heretofore per-
formed, but who shall be constituted trustees for
each district.

Ibid, s 2.
Powers of trus-
tees abridged.

174. The one hundred and seventy-fourth section,
which empowers 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electing of trustees and clerks, is hereby repealed, so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 dis-
tricts number seven, eight and nine.

Ibid s 3.
Election of
trustees and
clerk.

175. The said qualified taxable male inhabitants
in said three school districts, shall assemble at the
court house in Chestertown, 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 inhabitants, upon notice,
may call such meeting and hold such election, 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.

Ibid B. 4.
Management
of schools.

180. The one hundred and eightieth section is so
amended that the trustees shall, in addition to the
power of expulsion contained in said section, have
the power to make all suitable and proper regula-
tions for the management of the schools, and the
better regulation and deportment of the scholars, and
of the instructions, books, maps and charts that shall
be used and taught in said schools.

Ibid s 6.
Trustees em-
powered to sell
school house
lot.

181. The trustees of said schools, or a majority of
them, shall have power to sell and dispose of a por-
tion of the primary school house lot in Chestertown,
on part of which the school house stands erected,
and to convey the same in fee, by deed duly executed
and acknowledged according to law, to the purchaser
or purchasers, and apply the proceeds of sale to the
repair or improvement of said school house and pre-
mises.