1846.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 169.

Passed Feb.
1847.

CHAPTER 169.

A supplement to an act entitled, an ad to provide for the
establishment, of District Schools in Charles County,
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
thirty-tight, chapter one hundred and ninety-one.

WHEREAS, the law of eighteen hundred and thirty-
eight, chapter one hundred and ninety-one, for the es-
tablishment of primary schools in Charles county, seem
to be in several respects defective and incapable of pro-
ducing such general satisfaction and benefit as was thereby
intended and contemplated; and whereas, it is of great
importance to the public that said schools be so organised
and conducted as to dispense the blessings of education
in the most useful and satisfactory manner to the public
at large—Therefore,

Repealed.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,
so much of said act as authorises the orphans court of
Charles county to draft on the Farmers' Bank of Mary-
land for three thousand dollars annually be, and the same
is hereby repealed.

To levy on the

assessable pro-
perty.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of
Charles county be, and are hereby required, at their next
meeting for the laying of the tax of said county for the
year eighteen hundred and forty-seven, to levy upon the
assessable property thereof, the sum of one thousand
dollars, in addition to the sum of three thousand dollars
already required by law, for the purpose of paying off
the claims of such primary school teachers as have not
received compensation for their services for the year
eighteen hundred and forty-six, and that the orphans
Court of said county be hereby authorised to draft on the
collector or collectors of said county, in favor of the
trustees of said schools, for such sums as may be due
such teachers as have not been paid for their services
for the year eighteen hundred and forty-six.

Teacher not
eligible as trus-
tee.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That no teacher of said
schools shall be eligible as trustee thereof, and that the
concurrence of at least three trustees of any school dis-
trict shall be necessary to the choice of a teacher, and
no trustee shall be entitled to more than one vote in re-
lation thereto.

Declared un-
lawful.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it is hereby declared
to be unlawful for the trustees of the primary schools in
said county to consolidate any of said schools in any