JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1832.

power to employ on such terms as they may think prudent,
a teacher or teachers for the purpose of instructing the pu-
pils which may be .sent to said Seminary, and make such
contract with the saiJ teacher or teachers ..s they may think
advisable.

CHAP. 237.

Make rules, &c

CHAPTER 237.

An act to repeal the sixth section of ike act of eighteen hun-
dred and thirty, chapter one hundred and sixty, entitled,
"an act to extend the powers of the commissioners of the
School Fund in Queen Ann's county, and to encourage
the establishment of Free Schools in iuid county," and
for other purposes.

Passed Mar. 12, 1833

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the sixth section of the act of eighteen
hundred and thirty, chapter one hundred and sixty, de-
claring the Centreville Academy to be a free school, be,
and the same is hereby repealed, and that the trustees of

6th section of act

of 1830 ch. 160

repeaed.

the said Academy be and they art hereby required to fur-
nish tuition in said academy, gratuitously, to all children

Gratuitous in -

struction

within a circuit of three miles around the academy, whose
parents they shall have sufficient reason to believe, are not
able to pay for the instruction of the same.

Limited.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That whenever hereafter any
vacancy shall happen in the board of trustees of said

Case of vacancy

of trustees

academy, the same shall be certified by the President, or
in case of his death, by the secretary to the board, to the
judges of the Orphans' Court of said county, who shall
appoint some discreet person to fill said vacancy, and shall
certify the same to the officer who gave said court notice
of the vacancy as aforesaid; which said officer shall forth-
with give notice to the person so appointed, of his appoint-
ment as aforesaid.

Proceedings di-

rected.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That, hereafter, five mem-
bers of the board of trustees of said academy shall be suf-
ficient to constitute a quorum, for transacting all general
and necessary business of the said seminary, and making
temporary rules for the management thereof.

Five trustees a

quorum.