WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

trict number six, in Frederick county, it is found to
be impracticable to fix upon a central situation that
will afford greater diffusion of the benefits intended for
said district by the school law now in force in relation
to said county: — Therefore.

CHAP. 166.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That instead of one school to he established
in said Poplar District number six, there may be two
schools located in said district under the law aforesaid,

Two schools estab-
lished.

one of which shall be kept at the house now erected on
a certain lot of ground heretofore conveyed by a cer-
tain Solomon Easterday to Jacob Johnson, Christian
Harshman and George Blessing, in trust for the pur-
pose of a school house, and that it shall and may be
lawful for the above, named trustees, and their succes-

One located.

sors in trust, to draw on the proper officers charged
with the distributing of the school fund distributable in

funds, according to the proportion which the number
of scholars who shall receive instruction at said school
house, shall bear to the whole number instructed under
the provisions of the law aforesaid, agreeably to the
returns that shall be made to the proper officer.

Authority to draw

funds.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall not
take effect, unless at a general meeting of the duly
qualified voters of said Poplar District number six, to
be held at such time and place as shall be publicly
notified for that purpose by the said school trustees, of
said district, the said voters shall, by a majority of
ballots, approve of this act, which approval shall be
signified by the words "Two Schools, " written, or
printed, on the ballots, and the school trustees of said
district, or a majority of them who may be in atten-
dance, then and there shall conduct said election, and
ascertain and declare the result, which result shall be

This act subject to

ratification.

forthwith certified by said trustees as aforesaid, to the
county clerk of Frederick county, and in case this act
shall be approved and certified in the manner aforesaid,
then, and from thenceforth, shall be, and continue in
force.
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To be recorded.