1846.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 195.

Proviso.

and to fix upon some suitable place therein as a site for a
school house, and to appoint five suitable and discreet
persons, or three, if five may not be had, friendly to the
establishment of piimary schools, and residents of such
newly created district, who shall act as trustees of such
school district; provided, said commissioners shall first
obtain the approbation and consent of the commissioners
of the tax for Saint Mary's county, or a majority of them
n writing, so to lay off said new school district.

Trustees to

qualify.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the trustees of said
newly created district, as soon as they shall have qualifi-
ed by taking an oath or affirmation that they will well
and truly perform the duties of trustees, shall procure by
purchase, gift or donation, a sufficient lot or parcel of
land at or near the situation selected by the above com-
missioners, for the purpose of erecting a good and sub-
stantial school house, suitable to the present and pro-
spective wants of the district.

Duty of trus-
tees.

In case of va-
cancy.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the said trustees at least once a year if not oftener, to
visit and inspect the condition of their school, and to
report annually lo the county commissioners on or before
the first day of January in each and every year, the con-
dition of the said school and the number of pupils taught
therein, together with such remarks, suggestions and re-
commendations as they, in their judgement, shall think
conducive to the interest and promotion of education in
said school, and shall in all other respects be governed
by the same laws that are applied to trustees created
under the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, chap-
ter three hundred and sixty-two, except that in case of a
vacancy in the number of trustees at any time by death,
resignation, refusal to serve or removal out of the school
district, it shall be filled by the appointment of some
qualified person or persons by the commissioners of the
county.

Pay propor-
tion of the
school fund.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of
Saint Mary's county, from and after the passage of this
act, pay lo the trustees appointed under this act, a pro-
portion of the school fund equal to that allowed to each
of the other primary schools in said county.

Primary
school — how-
regulated.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the primary school
hereby authorised to be erected, be regulated in all
respects by the same laws that regulate the other pri-
mary schools of the county, except so far as is provided
to the contrary in this act.

Go into effect.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall go into
effect from and after the day of its passage.