THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1836

CHAPTER 279.

CHAP. 279.

An act to authorise the appointment of Commissioners,
and the division of Worcester County in School Dis-
tricts, and for other purposes.

Passed Mar. 31
1837.

SECTION 1. Be if enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall be the duty of the levy court
of Worcester county, on or before the first Monday in
July next, to appoint five discreet and suitable persons
residing on the East side of the Pocomoke river in said
county, to act as commissioners, whose duty it shall be
or a majority of them, to assemble at some conveni-
ent place, on or before the first Monday of September
next, and to proceed to divide that part of Worcester

Levy court to
appoint five
commissioners
E of P.

county, lying on the East side of said river, into a
suitable and convenient number of school districts,
and it shall also be the duty of the levy court aforesaid

To lay off school
districts

to appoint five suitable and discreet persons, residing
on the West side of the Pocomoke river, to act as com-
missioners, whose duty it shall be or a majority of
them, to assemble at some convenient place on or before
the first Monday of September next, and proceed to

sioners W. of
P.

divide that part of said county, lying on the West side
of said river, into a suitable number of school districts,
and it shall be the further duty of the commissioners
aforesaid, immediately after the formation of said

To lay off dis-

tricts

school districts in their respective portion of said coun-
ty, to describe and number the same, and to deliver the
description and number thereof in writing, to the clerk

Report required

of said county, who is hereby required to receive and
record the same in his office.

Recorded

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the said commissioners on each side of said river,
or a majority of them respectively, at the same time
that they describe and number the said school districts,
to report to the levy court of said county the number

Report to Levy
court required

of school districts in their respective portions of said
county, with a description of the same, and the proba-
ble cost of erecting a school house in each school dis-
trict; the house to be of plain and substantial materials
of such size as the commissioners may deem necessary,
together with the probable cost of the site of each, or
if there should be in any of said districts a school house

Cost of school
houses