1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 381.

Trustees to
dispose of old
school house.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the trustees of school district number
one, of the middle election district of Caroline county,
be and they are hereby empowered to sell or otherwise
dispose of, as they may think best, the old school house
and lot, and with the means accruing from such disposi-
tion to have a new school house built during the present
year, and ready for the school by the commencement of
the ensuing year; and they are hereby directed to build
said school house not further than two miles from Hills-
borough, and not nearer to it than one and a quarter miles
therefrom, on the road leading from thence to Denton,
the precise site within those distances to be determined
by the said trustees.

Orphans court
to appoint 3
persons.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the orphans court of
Caroline county are hereby directed, as soon after they
are notified of the passage of this act, to appoint three
disinterested persons, whose duty it shall be at once to
proceed to alter and change, if they think it advisable,
and define the eastern boundary of the aforesaid school
district, and report the result to the said court, and said
report shall be conclusive as to said eastern boundary,
and said court are directed to pay said persons two dol-
lars each out of the school fund of said school number
one.

To continue to
the end of the
year.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the term of service of
the present board of trustees shall continue until the end
of the present year, and the term of service of the trus-
tees hereafter to be elected shall extend to the end of the
year succeeding the one in which they may be elected.

Repealed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of
acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and
the same are hereby repealed, but nothing herein con-
tained shall be so construed as in any manner to inter-
fere with the collection of the taxes now levied for the
support of the present year.

CHAPTER 381.

Passed March
10, 1846.

An act making it a criminal offence for any person or
persons maliciously to set on fire any fence or fencing,
any straw or stack or stacks of straw, or any hay or
mowed grass or other grass.

Liable to in-
dictment.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
if any person or persons shall maliciously set on fire any
fence or fencing or any straw, stack or stacks or ricks