1837.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 303.

Extension of
time.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the time limited
in the act to which this is a supplement, for the com-
pletion of the rail road from the city of Baltimore to
the Borrough of York, he, and the same is hereby fur-
ther extended to the first day of November, in the year
eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

CHAPTER 303.

Passed Mar. 29,

1838.

An act for the promotion of Education in Somerset
County.

School Com-
missioners.

SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Commissioners of Somerset coun-
ty be, and they are hereby authorised and required to
appoint three commissioners for each election district
in Somerset county, whose duty it shall he, or a ma-
jority of them, to assemble in the respective election
districts of said county, at such place as they may
think proper to appoint, at as early day as may be

Divide into
school districts.

practicable, and then and there proceed to divide the
said election districts into a suitable and convenient
number of school districts having reference to creeks

Number them.

and roads for boundaries; and said district commis-
sioners shall number the said school districts with the

Report in wri-
ting.

number of each affixed, and deliver their report in
writing to the clerk of the county commissioners,
whose duty it shall be to lay the same before said coun-
ty commissioners at their first meeting thereafter.

School trustees.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said commis-
sioners of Somerset county shall proceed to appoint, for
each school district in the county, three trustees to

To erect school
house.

whom authority is hereby given, to procure and erect
by individual subscription or otherwise, a suitable
school house, conveniently located in each school dis-

Report the fact.

trict, and it shall be the duty of the said trustees, so
soon as they have obtained such school house, to in-
form the county commissioners of Somerset county of

Whereupon
distribution
directed.

the fact in writing: it shall then be the duty of the
said commissioners to appropriate such sum or sums
of money out of the funds which may be in their hands
for the purposes of common school education in Somer-