1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 31.

and they are hereby incorporated and constituted a
body politic and corporate, by the name and style
of the Board of Commissioners of Public Schools of
Montgomery county, and by that name shall have
perpetual succession and shall be capable in law to
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any
court of law or equity, or before any judge or jus-
tice of the peace, and have and use a common seal,
and the same to alter or break at pleasure, and to
exercise all the powers and privileges granted to or
vested in them by this act, as fully to all intents
and purposes as any other corporate body may or
can lawfully do.

Election of
president.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the commission-
ers of public schools, appointed as provided for by
the first section of this act, shall assemble on the
first Monday of April after the passage of this act,
(at the town of Rockville, ) or as soon thereafter as
practicable, for the purpose of organizing, at which
meeting, or at some subsequent meeting held by
special adjournment, they shall proceed to the elec-
tion of a president, who shall be chosen by a ma-
jority of the whole board, who shall hold his office
for the term of two years, or until his successor
shall be elected; if the office of president shall be-
come vacated, either by death, resignation or other-
wise, it shall be the duty of the board to fill the
same at the earliest practicable day, by a new elec-
tion, and it shall be the duty of said president to
keep an accurate record of the proceedings of said
board in a well bound book; it shall be the duty of
the county commissioners for said county to provide
for said board of school commissioners a suitable
room wherein to hold their said meetings.

Treasurer —
his election,
duties, &c.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the board of
school commissioners shall at their first meeting
appoint a treasurer of the board of commissioners
of public schools, who shall give bond to the State
of Maryland, in such sum as said board may deter-
mine, with at least two securities to be approved by
them; the said Treasurer shall annually on some
specified day, render an account to said board,
thereby exhibiting a statement of all moneys on
hand and received, and all disbursements made by
him, with his vouchers thereof, and which said
settlement shall be entered upon the records of said
board, upon the termination of his term of office or
upon his death, resignation or removal, it shall be his