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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and to pledge their respective unsold bond issues as collateral
security for the payment of such note or notes so discounted
by them, or either of them, respectively.

District
school
trustees.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That the Board of District School
Trustees, for the said school district in the city of Annapolis,
shall always be composed of six persons, three of whom shall
be men and three of them women; that for the year begin-
ning on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-six,
6aid Board of District School Trustees shall consist of the
following persons, viz: James W. Cain, Mrs. Maggie A.
Moss, Martin M. Smith, Miss Kate Gantt, John F. Strange
and Miss ———— Porter. Within thirty days after the first
day of May of the present year, the said Board of District
School Trustees shall meet and enter upon the duties assigned
such trustees by chapter five, Article seventy-seven, of the
Code of Public General Laws, title "Public Education ;" at
their first meeting' they shall appoint a chairman to hold office
for one year, and shall give notice of such appointment to the
secretary of the Board of County School Commissioners; they
shall have all the rights and powers, and shall discharge all
the duties conferred and imposed by said chapter five upon
district school trustees, except that they and their successors
shall have the absolute power of appointment and removal of
the teachers of said district school, without the approval of the
said Board of County School Commissioners.

Terras of
office.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That at their first meeting said
Board of District School Trustees shall by lot divide themselves
into three classes, with one man and one woman in each class;
the first class shall hold office for one year; the second class for
two years, and third class for three years, from the first day of
May of the present year, respectively; and they shall give notice
of such division and of the names of the members of each such
class to the secretary o£ the Board of County School Commis-
sioners.

Vacancies.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That vacancies in said Board of
District School Trustees, whether by death, removal, expiration
of term, or otherwise, shall be filled by the Board of County
School Commissioners; each such appointment to fill a vacancy
caused by expiration of a term of office shall be for the term
of three years from the first day of May, when such term ex-
pires; and each such appointment to fill any other vacancy shall
be for the unexpired portion of the vacated term; such ap-
pointees shall be citizens of Annapolis, who will take au active