694 MONTGOMERY COUNTY. [ART. 15.

said county, which shall hear and determine the
same as in appeals from county commissioners, and
the said commissioners are authorized to levy a spe-
cial tax, not exceeding twenty cents on the one hun-
dred dollars as a street tax to be collected and paid
as other corporation tax of said town.

In force from February 21, 1867.

1867, c. 169 enacts the following: Recites that the records and proceedings of the
commissioners of the town of Rockville, Montgomery county, were carried off and
destroyed during the raid of the confederate forces in this state in July, 1864; and
provides that the acts and proceedings of the commissioners of the town of Rock-
ville, Montgomery county, shall be valid notwithstanding the loss of the records
prior to the date hereof, and the rights and privileges of said corporation shall be
as fully preserved and continued notwithstanding the corporate authorities of said
town may be unable to produce the same in evidence in any legal proceedings.

NOTE —By the net of 1806, c 76 the commissioners of Montgomery county are authorized
to deed n portion of court-house square at Rockville, to Lewis Shots.

SCHOOLS.

1862, c. 275 professes to repeal sections 80, 82, 85, 93 and 95 and substitutes the
following, but there is no repealing clause in this act

1862, c 275 Appointment of school com- missioners.	80. The county commissioners of Montgomery county, shall, on the first Thursday after the first Monday of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and every two years thereafter, appoint one discreet, intelligent citizen of each election district of said county, who shall take charge of the public schools as herein provided; the said county commissioners shall give notice of at least two weeks, in all the newspapers of the county, of said appointment, the said commissioners of the county, to fill all the
Vacancies	vacancies that may occur in said board of school commissioners, whenever the same may take place, at their first meeting after such vacancies may occur, and such commissioners of public schools, before he
Oath.	shall proceed to act as such, shall take an oath or affirmation to faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of his office, and to support the constitu-