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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
passage of this act, and for as long a time thereafter, as the
commissioners of public free schools of said district may think
proper. |
115
Dec. Ses. 1825. |
6. And be it enacted, That the judges
of the levy court of
Baltimore county, shall have authority, by, and with the consent
and approbation of the commissioners of public free schools, to
purchase, take, possess, and hold property and estates, real and
personal, in trust, for the use and benefit of public free schools
in the first election district of said county, and the same to sell,
lease, exchange or dispose of, whenever they are requested to do
so by the commissioners aforesaid. |
Levy court
to have control
over property. |
7. And be it enacted, That as soon
as any school, to be established
by virtue of this act, shall be ready for the tuition, of
scholars, that it shall be the duty of the commissioners, by whom
it is established, to give public notice by advertisement, to be
set up at two or public places in the district and neighborhood,
of the time of the commencement of said school; and that
all such white persons, residents in said district and neighborhood,
being under their care, shall be permitted to do so, and
have them taught gratis, which terms shall be stated in said notice. |
Opening
of schools—
children to be
taught gratis. |
8. And be it enacted, That so soon
as any public free school
shall have been established by the commissioners of public free
schools in the first election district of Baltimore county, they
shall notify the judges of the levy court of said county, who
shall then appropriate and hold to the use of the commissioners
aforesaid, a fair and equal proportion of the funds thereafter to
be received by said judges, by virtue of a supplement to the act,
entitled, " an act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike
road leading to Cumberland, and for the extension of the charters
of the several banks in the city of Baltimore, and for other
purposes, and the supplements thereto. |
Proportion
of present
school funds. |
9. And be it enacted, That between
the first and tenth days
of September next, the judges of the levy court of Baltimore
county, shall give notice in at least three of the newspapers published
in the city of Baltimore, and also by advertisement to be
set up in six or more public places in the first election district of
said county, that on the first Monday of October next; each citizen
of said district, qualified to vote for delegates to the general
assembly of Maryland, shall be at liberty to give his assent
or dissent to the adoption of this act, for which purpose he may
give in his assent by means of a ballot marked, yes; or his dissent
by means of a ballot marked, no; which said ballots shall
be deposited in a ballot box provided for that purpose, at the
place of election, and counted and summed up by the judges of
elections in said district; and if it should appear that a majority
of the whole number of ballots taken, express an assent to the
adoption of this act, that then the said judges of elections shall
certify the said fact, and therewith furnish a statement of the number |
Notice of and
election to adopt
or reject
this act—proceedings. |
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