LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

were repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 341 of the Acts of
1892.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That sections six, eighteen and twenty-five of Article 77

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of the Code of Public General Laws, title " Public Education,"
as repealed and re-enacted by the Acts of 1892, chapter 341,
so far as relates to Garrett county, be and the same are hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as fol-
lows :
6. At the general election to be held on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November, 1899, the legally qualified

Repeal.

voters in Garrett county shall elect three school commissioners ; .
one for the term of two years, one for the term of four years,
and one for the term of six years, and one person to act as
secretary, treasurer and examiner of said board to serve for a
term of two years ; and shall biennially thereafter elect such
secretary, treasurer and examiner and one school commissioner
for said county, to serve for the term of six years, which said
three commissioners shall constitute the Board of County School
Commissioners for said Garrett county.
18. The Board of County School Commissioners shall on
the first Tuesday of May next after their election meet at the

Elect three
school com-
missioners.

county seat for organization, or as soon thereafter as possible.
The Board shall meet once in every school terra, and other
times if necessary for the transaction of business ; and each
commissioner shall jeceive the sum of four dollars per diem
for each day of his attendance at the Board or any committee
appointed by the Board ; provided, that the aggregate amount
to any one commissioner shall not exceed one hundred dollars
per annum ; and the said examiner, before he proceeds to act
as such, shall give bond as now required by law ; and the duties
of said commissioners and examiners shall be the same as are
now or may hereafter be provided by law, and said examiner
shall hereafter be paid by the said Board of Commissioners the
same salary and in the same manner as is now being paid by
said commissioners.
25. That in case of death of any county school commissioner

Organize.

or examiner, or his resignation or removal from the county, or
disqualification from any legal cause, the Governor may and
shall have the power to appoint a qualified person or persons
to fill the vacancy in the Board of Commissioners ; and said
Commissioners shall elect a qualified person, not a member of
the board, to act as examiner, and said person or persons ap-

Power to
appoint.