WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

shall constitute a board of primary education in Won-
cester county.

CHAP. 371.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid board
of primary education, appointed as above directed,
shall meet on some day in May eighteen hundred and
thirty-nine, at Snow Hill, and shall proceed to exam-

Meeting in May,

1839.

ine and review the returns of the agents heretofore
appointed by the levy court, of the county aforesaid,
and alter, or amend said returns so as more complete-
ly to carry out the design of said agents in a more
just and equal division of the county into school dis-
tricts, so far as that can be effected by their geogra-
phical knowledge and good judgment, without an ac-

Revive and arrange

school districts.

tual survey, designating the bounds and limits of each
district by roads, branches, creeks, rivers, and plan-
tations as the case may require, ami designating the

Define the lines.

most suitable location for the school house of such dis-
trict, and it shall be the duty of the said board, to se-
lect such districts as shall be first supplied with a

Fix site for school

house.

school house, and to ascertain the true number of poor
children justly entitled to the benefit of the free school
fund of Worcester county, as also the number of white
citizens within the limits of each school district, so as

Number of scholars.

aforesaid designated, and make out and return to the
levy court, or commissioners of said county, on, or be-
fore the first day of August eighteen hundred and thir-
ty-nine, a full report of their proceedings and inves-
tigations, which report shall be filed in the office of

the clerk of the court of said county.

Report proceedings.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the board aforesaid
as aforesaid, shall and they are hereby authorised and
required to designate all the districts numerically, and
to appropriate so much of the amount of the interest,
or dividends arising from the school fund, and the
amount of the yearly dividends from the banks to
which Worcester county shall be entitled as a school
fund, as the commissioners for said county shall ad-

Number the dis-

tricts.

judge and direct, to be distributed annually to each
school district in proportion to their respective number
of white citizens in said district.

Apportion the
school funds.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That all the citizens of
each district legally entitled to vote for delegates to
the General Assembly, shall meet on the first Monday
of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and an-

Annual meeting of

voters in each

school district.