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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Passed March
21, 1853.
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CHAPTER
74.
AN ACT to authorise the commissioners of Primary
Schools, in the several Election Districts of Saint
Mary's county, to change the lines of School Districts
already laid out, and to create additional School Districts
in their several Election Districts.
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Authority to
change lines.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the commissioners of primary
schools, in the several election districts of Saint Mary's
county, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised
and empowered to change the lines of any school district
already laid out, and create any additional school
district, within their respective election districts, whenever
and wherever the necessities and convenience of the
people require it, and to appoint trustees for any additional
school districts which they may create.
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Commissioners
to report.
Report to be
recorded.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That whenever the said
commissioners of primary schools shall change the lines
of any school district, or create any additional school
district, they shall report the same to the county commissioners,
describing the changes made in the lines of
any school district previously laid out, and defining the
limits of any additional school district which they may
have created by virtue of this act, and the number
thereof, and setting forth in said report, whom they
have appointed trustees for such additional school district;
which said report shall be recorded by the clerk
of the county commissioners, as other similar reports
are required to be recorded, by the second section of the
act passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
thirty-eight, chapter three hundred and sixty-two.
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Trustees to
select central
situation.
Contributions,
&c.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted,
That trustees who shall be
appointed for any school district, which shall be created
by virtue of this act, so soon as they shall have
qualified, by taking an oath or affirmation, that they
will well and truly perform the duties of trustees, shall
forthwith proceed to select some central situation as a
site for a school house, in the school district laid out as
aforesaid, and they are hereby authorised and empowered,
for that purpose, to condemn, or otherwise procure
a lot or parcel of land for the same, and erect a school
house thereon, as directed by the fourth section of the
act of December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight,
chapter three hundred and sixty-two; and for
the purpose of building said school house, and paying
for the lot condemned, or otherwise procured, the said
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