T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860,

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the county com-
missioners of said county shall have collected and
deposited annually in the Farmers' Bank of Mary-
land the amount required to be levied by the pro-
visions of the preceding section, and the Treasurer
of the State, upon the warrant of the Comptroller,
shall likewise annually deposit in said bank all
sums of money applicable to the school fund for said
county, together with the academy fund which
now stands untransferred to the use of said county
school fund, and which accrued in the year eighteen
hundred and fifty-five, all of which said sums of
money shall be subject to the written order of the
president of the said board of commissioners, coun-
tersigned by the register.

CHAP. 330.

Deposits of
money.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That there shall be in
each school district, five trustees annually elected
by the white male inhabitants of the district above
the age of twenty-one years; the said trustees shall
be residents of the district and shall hold their of-
fices for one year and until their successors are
qualified; the said election shall be held at such
times as shall be designated by the commissioners
of the district, and said commissioners shall give
notice to the residents of the district by advertise-
ment set up at some public place at least ten days
preceding the election, of the time and place of
holding the same, and if for any reason an election
shall not be held on the day notified, the commis-
sioners shall give farther notice from time to time,
until an election is effected.

Trustees.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the said trustees
shall in any district where there is no schoolhouse
select some suitable and central site, receive the
same by purchase, gift or condemnation, and make
arrangements for the erection and furnishing of a
schoolhouse thereon, receive contribution from the
benevolent, employ teachers, and require the teachers
to keep diaries of the attendance, lists of the names
of the scholars, and report the same to the board of
commissioners, together with the number of months
the school has been kept open, but in no case shall
expend more than one hundred and thirty dollars
in the erection of any schoolhouse, inclusive of the
costs of purchase or condemnation of a site there-
for.

Schoolhouses.

SEC. 10. And Be it enacted, That if at any time
the pupils in any school shall become so few in

Suspension of
donation.