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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

years living in the said neighborhood, and nearer

and more convenient to the said school house than

to any other, shall have the right to one vote in the

selection of such trustees; and that John Dimond,

of the said school and election district, be and he is

Give three

weeks' notice.

hereby authorized and directed to give at least three

weeks' public notice, by written or printed notice,

posted in at least six public places in the school

district, to the public interested, to meet at the

school house on Saturday, the twentieth day of

May, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, or some

convenient day thereafter, and then and there select

three persons of sobriety and discretion to act as

trustees of the said school house until the next elec-

tion of trustees.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said trustees,

so elected, shall be and continue in office as trus-

tees for one year from the date of their election, or

until successors are elected; and that it shall and

Term of office

may be lawful for the patrons and persons inter-

ested, as aforesaid, to assemble annually on the

second Saturday of May in each and every year, at

the said school house, and then and there select

three persons to serve as trustees for the ensuing

year.

Approved March 30, 1882.

Chapter 135.

AN ACT to repeal section one hundred and ten of

article ninety-three of the Code of Public General

Laws, title " Testamentary Laws," providing for

the protection of Administrators in giving notice

to Creditors, and to re-enact the same with

amendments.

WHEREAS doubts have arisen whether an admin-

istrator, notwithstanding the notice to creditors has

expired, can safely pay any claim against the estate

Preamble.

and pass his account till the full lapse of twelve

months, and opinion and practice in that respect is

not uniform in the State; therefore —