T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

CHAPTER 330.

CHAP. 330.

AN ACT entitled, An act to repeal the fifty-eighth,
fifty-ninth, sixtieth, sixty-first, sixty-second,
sixty-third, sixty-fourth, sixty-fifth, sixty-sixth,
sixty-seventh, sixty-eighth and sixty-ninth sec-
tions of article fourth, of the Public Local Laws
of this State, relating to schools in Calvert coun-
ty, and providing for the establishment of a uni-
form system of free schools in said county.

Passed March
10, 1860.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, six-
tieth, sixty-first, sixty-second, sixty-third, sixty-
fourth, sixty-fifth, sixty-sixth, sixty-seventh, sixty-
eighth and sixty-ninth sections of article fourth, of
the Public Local Laws of this State, relating to
schools in Calvert county, be, and the same are
hereby repealed, and the following substituted
therefor:

Repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That on the second
Tuesday in April, in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty, there shall be appointed by the Orphans'
Court for Calvert county, one person in each elec-
tion district in said county, to be denominated the
Board of Commissioners of Public Schools for Cal-
vert county, who shall hold their office for four
years from the said second Tuesday of April, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty.

Appointment
of a board of
commission-
ers.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the judges of the
Orphans7 Court of said county, be, and they are
hereby authorised and required to fill any vacancy
that may occur in said board, and may remove any
school commissioners for incompetency or failure to
perform any of the duties required of them by this
act, or whenever they are fully satisfied that the
interest and prosperity of the schools require it.

Vacancies —
how filled.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said board of
commissioners shall meet on or before the second
Tuesday of May next ensuing their appointment,
and organize as a board by the election from their
own number of a president, and shall annually elect
a register, not of their own number, whose duty it
shall be to keep a registry of all such matters as
the board may direct, who shall receive such com-
pensation therefor as may be by said board de-

Organization,
&c.