WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 134.

AN ACT to enable the patrons of Oak Grove

School House, in school district number one of

election district number eighteen, in Washington

county, to elect Trustees, and defining the rights

and duties of such Trustees.

WHEREAS it is represented to this General Assem-

bly, that in and about the year eighteen hundred

and nineteen, John Mong and George Mong, of

Washington county, by deed conveyed to Daniel

Heugett, Edward Gurther and others, a certain

parcel of land in the said county, as trustees, on

which certain persons in the neighborhood erected

a school house, called and known by the name of

Preamble.

Oak Grove School House; and whereas the said

parties named in the said deed as trustees, and who

were by said deed authorized to hold the premises

for the benefit of the patrons and persons in the

neighborhood, as a school house, have all died, and

none are now living, and it is represented that it is

important that the succession of trustees to hold

the said property be continued; therefore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the patrons and all persons

in the neighborhood of the said school house, known

as Oak Grove School House, in school district number

one, election district number eighteen, be and they

are hereby authorized, in the manner hereinafter

mentioned, to elect three persons from among the

Authorized to

patrons and persons in the neighborhood of the said

elect trustees.

school house, to be trustees of the said school house ;

which said trustees and their successors shall have

and hold the premises aforesaid for the benefit of the

public and people interested therein, with power to

let, lease, sell and convey the same for school pur-

poses, as to them or a majority of them shall seem

most advantageous to the public and persons directly

interested therein.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in order to secure

a fair election, and a free expression of the will of

the persons interested, and the patrons of the school,

that all and every person of the age of twenty-one

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