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Section 24A. In all reports and accounts hereafter stated
by any Auditor, the annual or other reports and accounts in
the same cause or trust estate, theretofore, under rule of Court,
rendered by any trustee or other fiduciary to any trust officer
of said Court authorized to verify trust reports and accounts,
which have been passed upon and accepted by said trust officer,
or the said Court, shall be taken as evidence of the receipts,
expenditures and statements, therein contained, without fur-
ther proof, unless by order of Court further proof is required.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from and after June 1, 1918.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 381.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 31,
Sub-chapter 5, entitled "District Board of School Trus-
tees," of Article 77 of Bagby's Annotated Code of Public
Civil Laws of Maryland, entitled "Public Education," as
finally amended by Chapter 506 of the Acts of 1916, so as
to grant additional powers to the district boards of school
trustees.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 31 of Chapter 5 of Article 77 of Bagby's
Code of Civil Laws of Maryland, entitled "Public .Educa-
tion," as finally amended by Chapter 506 of the Acts of 1916,
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments so as to read as follows:

31. Every District Board of School Trustees shall hold an
annual meeting each year on the third Saturday in May or as
soon thereafter in May as possible. At this meeting the Board
shall each year appoint one of its members as Chairman, and
shall give notice of such appointment to the Secretary of the
County Board of Education. Other regular meetings shall be
held at least once each school term, and such special meetings
shall be held as the duties and business of the Board shall
require. The principal teacher of the school district shall be
the secretary for the Board and shall attend all meetings of
the Board except when the Board is in executive session; and
shall with the consent of the majority of the members of the
Board present have the right to speak upon all questions, but