WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

CHAPTER 37.

An act to unite the Primary School Districts number
twenty two and twenty three, in queen Anne's Coun-
ty.

CHAP. 37.

Passed Feb. 2,

1839.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That, the Primary School districts, number
twenty two and twenty three, in Queen Anne's county,
from and after the passage of this act shall be unified,
and be a double Primary school district, and the
school-house shall be erected at or near Ruthsburgh,
upon such a site as a majority of the taxable inhab-
itants shall have already fixed upon, or may fix upon.

Districts united.

School house locat-

ed.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the taxable inhab-
itants of district number twenty two shall annually
elect three trustees, and district number twenty three
shall also elect three trustees, and one trustee shall be
elected by the joint vote of the taxable inhabitants of
the said two districts, or double district as united,
which said election of trustees shall be at said school
house, in the same manner as is now established by
law for the regulation of Primary schools in Queen
Anne's county, and the seven trustees so elected, shall
have full power to erect a school house necessary for
the establishment and maintenance of said school in
the same manner and with the same effect as if the
said two districts or double district, were one dis-
trict, and transact all such other business as the Pri-
mary school laws of this State authorise or require.

Seven trustees.

Their powers.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That in case there should
be any children too far from the school house of the.
united districts, the trustees are authorized and re-
quired to have all such children educated at a nearer
school if there should be one, upon the same terms as if
they were educated in the district, and the trustees of
an adjoining district shall receive them into their
school, to be paid for out of the funds of the double, dis-
trict.

Case of children

too distant.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the commissioners
of the school fund for Queen Anne's County shall pay
over to the trustees elected as above directed, the full
dividend of the two districts semi-annually, to be used

Payment over of
school dividends.