1838.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 327.

bond shall be filed with the clerk of said county court,
and be liable, to be such by the said commissioners for
any breach of the conditions thereof.

Public notice of

the district limits.

Sec. 8 And be it enacted, That within ten days after
the division and formation of said election districts

into school districts, the said managers respectively,

shall give public notice to the citizens of each of such

school districts, of the metes and bounds of such dis-

And of meeting to

organize.

trict, and shall notify them to assemble at a time and

place to be appointed and named in said notice, which
notice shall be published and put up at the most pub-

lic place in said school district, at least six days before

Renewal of notice.

the time, of such meeting; and in case such notice shall
not be given as aforesaid, or the citizens of such dis-
trict when so notified, shall neglect or refuse to assem-
ble, or in cane any district, meeting having been formed
and organised as aforesaid, be dissolved by adjourn-

shall be lawful for said managers, or any one of them,
to renew such notice at any time thereafter, and when-
ever the citizens of said district, shall assemble in
pursuance of any such notice, a majority of those pre-

sent, may adjourn from time to time, as occasion may

require, and at any such meeting authorised as afore-

Manager shall at-

tend.

said, occurring one in each and every year, the manager

resident in said district shall attend, and a majority
of the citizens present shall choose, by ballot, three

Elect three trustees.

sensible and discreet persons as trustees, to manage
the concerns of such school district, and said meeting
shall designate a site for a school house, vote a tax on
the property in such school district, sufficient in addi-
tion to the proportion of the school fund allotted to

Fix school house

site.

such school district, to purchase, lease or rent a site
for a school house, to build, lease or rent and keep in
repair said house, to supply fuel, books, stationary
and furniture, to pay the salary of a teacher and all

Change of location.

other necessary expenses; provided however, that no
location of a school house shall be fixed upon, unless

the same be approved by a majority of said managers,

and no change shall be made after such school house

shall be built, but by consent of a majority of the said

managers, unless a majority of the said managers con-

senting thereto, all the expense incurred by making
such change, shall be defrayed by donation, or by levies