1836.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 36.

Objects declar-

ed

plead and be impleaded, and to hold, take and enjoy
to them and their successors, for the use of the said
school, any estate, in lands and tenements, goods, chat-
tels and effects, by gift, grant, conveyance, devise or
bequest of any person or persons whatsoever ; provided,
the whole of their property shall not any time exceed
the value of two thousand dollars, and the same to use
in any manner they may deem most beneficial to the
said school, for the purposes of education.

Enjoy donation.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said trustees and
their successors may have, hold and enjoy the do-
nation which Cordelia H. Downey heretofore made to
the said school, according to the true intent and pur-
pose of the same, and for the use and benefit of the
said school.

Annual elec-
tions.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That an election by bal-
lot for seven trustees, shall be held at Central school
House, someday between the first and tenth days of Au-
gust next, and on some day between the first and tenth
day of August in every year thereafter, of which ten
days notice shall be published by the trustees, in such
manner as they may direct, and that every person who

Title to vote.

shall contribute twenty-five cents to the said school
before the next election, shall be entitled to vote there-
at for trustees as aforesaid, and any person who may
contribute twenty-five cents within the twelve month
next before any subsequent election for trustees as

Case of vacan-
cy.

aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote thereat, and if any
of the said trustees shall, die, resign, refuse to act, or
remove out of Frederick county, the remaining trus-
tees shall fill up the vacancy or vacancies.

Quorum.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said trustees or
a majority of them, shall form a quorum for the trans-
action of all business, that the said trustees shall and

Elect officers.

may elect one of their own number president for the
term of one year, that they shall also elect a secreta-
ry, who shall also be the treasurer for the term of one
year, that the said secretary shall make and keep a re-

Record

cord of all the proceedings of the said trustees, and of
all other matters directed by them to be entered and re-
corded, that the said trustees shall and may employ

Teachers.

and discharge a teacher or teachers, fix his or their
salary or salaries, and the terms of tuition, and regu-
late the admission of pupils, in which they shall make
no distinction upon the ground of religion, and they