FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 341.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, section

six, eighteen and twenty-five, of article seventy-seven of

the Code of Public General Laws, title " Public Edu-

cation."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That sections six, eighteen and twenty-five, of article

Amend-
ment

seventy-seven, of the Code of Public General Laws, title

"Public Education," be and the same are hereby repealed

and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows :

SEC. 6. Immediately after the passage of this act, the

Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the

School

Senate, shall appoint a board of county school commis-

commis-

sioners for each county, to be composed in the counties of

sioners.

Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick and Washington, of six

persons and in each of the other counties of three persons of

whom one-third in each county shall serve for a term of two

years, one-third shall serve for a term of four years, and

one -third shall serve for a term of six years; from the first

day of August next succeeding their appointment, and until

their successors shall qualify, provided, that the present

Board of School Commissioners for Garrett County, shall

remain in office for the term for which they were appointed

by the Governor, and until their successors are selected and

qualified. The member or members of each board who

shall serve for two, four and six years, respectively, to be

designated by the Governor at the time of making the

appointments, and hereafter, the Governor, by and with

the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint, at

every regular session of the General Assembly in each of the

counties of Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick and Washington,

two couuty school commissioners and in each of the other

counties, one county school commissioner, to serve for a

term of six years from the first day of August next succeed-

ing their appointment so that one-third of each board of

county school commissioners shall be appointed every

two years.

18. The board of county school commissioners shall meet

for organization on the first Tuesday in August next suc-

When to

ceeding their appointment, or as soon thereafter as may be,

meet.

and elect a person, not a member of the board, who shall

serve as secretary, treasurer and examiner, and notice of

such election signed by the president of the board, shall be

transmitted to the comptroller ; provided, that in counties

having more than eighty-five schools, the board may, at