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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
from time to time as occasion may require; Provided however,
That no alteration as to the scite of a school house shall take
place, but by consent of at least four commissioners of the county;
and it shall and may be lawful for the trustees of such districts,
or a majority of them, whenever they shall deem it necessary
to call a special meeting of the said inhabitants of such
district, notice thereof being given as hereinafter provided,
and no district meeting held as aforesaid shall be taken or deemed
illegal for defect or want of due notice to any of the said inhabitants
of such district; Provided, The omission to give such
notice be not wilful and designed. |
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Dec. Ses. 1825.
Provisoes. |
9. And be it enacted, That the clerk,
trustees and collector
of each school district, shall hold their respective offices until
the annual meeting of such district next following the time of
their election, and a new election shall have been made;
and in case such offices, or any of them, shall be vacated by the
death, refusal to serve, removal out of the district, or incapacity
of any such officer; and such vacancy shall not be supplied by
the district at a special or other district meeting, within one
month thereafter, it shall and may be lawful for the commissioners
of primary schools for the county in which such district shall
be situated, to supply such vacancy by the appointment of any
person residing in such district; and such appointment shall have
the same effect, to all intents and purposes, as if the same had
been made by the district, at any legal district meeting, and every
person who shall be duly chosen or appointed as aforesaid,
to serve in any such office, and shall refuse to serve therein,
shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars, to be recovered,
with costs of suit, by action of debt, in the name of the commissioners
of primary schools, for the county in which such
person shall reside; or in the name of any other person, before
any justice of the peace having cognizance thereof, and such
sum, when so recovered, shall be paid to the commissioners
aforesaid, for the use of the primary school in such district; and
every person, who being duly chosen or appointed as aforesaid,
to serve in any such office and having accepted thereof, or not
declared his refusal to accept, shall neglect the performance of
the duties of such office, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten
dollars, to be recovered with costs of suit, in manner aforesaid,
and for the use aforesaid. |
Respecting
clerk, trustees
and collectors—
vacancies—
penalties
for neglect. |
10. And be it enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the clerk
of each school district, to keep the records and proceedings of
his district, in a book to be provided for that purpose, and whenever
a special district meeting shall be called by the trustees of
such district, it shall be the duty of such clerk to give notice as
aforesaid, of the time and place of such special district meeting,
to the inhabitants of such district, at least ten days before such
meeting shall be held; and when any district meeting shall be
adjourned for a longer time than one month, it shall be the duty
of the clerk of such district to give notice thereof in writing
as aforesaid, at least ten days before the time appointed for such |
Duties of
clerk. |
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