1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 183.

rick county, stating therein that in the division of said
county into primary school districts, they were included in
districts numbers thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three and
thirty-six, and that a large number of them are now situ-
ated from two to four miles distant from either of the
aforesaid locations; and whereas, by said petition it ap-
pears, that said petitioners having furnished themselves
with a good and substantial school house and lot, conve-
niently located, at their own expense; and it also appear-
ing by the said petition, that in the event of creating a
new district as therein prayed, it will still leave a suffi-
cient number of scholars to each of the adjoining school
districts; it appearing reasonable — therefore,

Individuals con-
stituting school
district.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Peter Warenfeldts, John Smith, Jacob
Miller, John Nuce, Isaac Widdle, Thomas W. Banks,
Daniel Weller, John Miller, of Daniel, David Weller,
Peter Wile, Geoige Colliflower, George Clem, John Hahn,
Daniel Wilhite, Henry Stouffer, Eli Miller, Frederick
Weller, Christian Harbaugh, Jacob Creeger, George Shuff,
Jacob Long, Henry Markel, Frederick Wilhite, John
Woolf, Daniel Stouffer, Christian Stouffer. John Firor,
John Colliflower, Cormack Baxter, Jacob Wile and Mari-
an Smith, be and the same shall hereby constitute them-
selves into a primary school district, and shall be known

Name, &c.

by the name of the Centre School House District Number
Seventy-nine, and shall for its bounds embrace all the
dwellings of the aforesaid persons, which shall in no man-
ner be changed, without it be done agreeably to the seve-
ral provisions of the original acts of Assembly, in such

cases made and provided.

Election of
trustees.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That there shall be an
election held at the said Centre School House, on the last
Saturday of April next, and annually thereafter, for three
trustees, who shall be elected in the same manner as pro-
vided for in December session, eighteen hundred and
twenty-five, chapter one hundred and sixty-two, and by
persons having the same qualifications as is provided forin
December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight,
giving at least ten day's notice, by public advertisements,
previous to any such election, put up at two of the most
public places in said district.

Duties and pow-
ers of trustees.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when said trustees
shall have been duly elected as aforesaid, they shall be
charged with the same duties, and have the same powers
vested in them as other trustees of primary schools of