T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

CHAPTER 31.

CHAP. 31.

AN ACT to amend Article fifteen, Sections fifty-
one, fifty-two, fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-five,
fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty,
sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-four and
sixty-five of the Public Local Laws, relating to
Schools in Montgomery county, and substituting
therefor the following:

ARTICLE 1.

Passed Feb.
27, 1860.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Basil B. Crawford for the first
election district, Leonidas Wilson for the second
election district, Isaac Young for the third election
district, Robert W. Carter for the fourth election
district, and William H. Farquhar for the fifth
election district, are hereby appointed, who shall
collectively be entitled, the board of commissioners
of public schools of Montgomery county, and shall
hold their office for two years from the first Thurs-
day after the Monday of March, eighteen hundred
and sixty.

Commission-
ers.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the judges of the
Orphans' court of said county shall on the first
Thursday after the first Monday of March, eighteen
hundred and sixty-two, and every two years there-
after, appoint one discreet, intelligent citizen of
each election district of said county, who shall take
charge of the public schools as herein provided;
the said court shall give notice of at least two
weeks in all the newspapers of the county of such

Superinten-
dents of pub-
lic schools.

appointment; the said judges of the said court are
hereby required to fill all vacancies that may occur
in said board of commissioners whenever the same
may take place, at their first meeting after such
vacancies occur, and each commissioner of public
schools, before he shall proceed to act as such, shall
take an oath or affirmation to faithfully and impar-
tially discharge the duties of his office, and to sup-
port the constitution and laws of this State, the
oath or affirmation to be administered by the clerk
of the Circuit court of said county.

Vacancy.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the board of com-
missioners of public schools of Montgomery county,
as hereinbefore provided, and their successors, be

Incorporated.