1847.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 265.

Passed
Mar. 10, 1848.

CHAPTER 265.

An act supplemental to an act passed December session
eighteen hundred and thirty eight, chapter thirty -seven,
entitled, an act to unite the Primary School District of
number twenty-two and twenty three, in Queen Anne's
County.

Commission-
ers to pay to
trustees cer-
tain school
funds.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the commissioners of the school fund
of Queen Anne's county be and they are hereby autho-
rised and empowered to pay over to the trustees of the
united primary school districts number twenty-two and
twenty-three in said county at the time when they dis-
tribute the said fund among the various primary school
districts of said county the full proportion or the said
fund to which the said districts if separated would be
entitled.

Trustees to
loan out.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said trustees
after the payment of the salary of the teacher now em-
ployed or hereafter to be employed by them, be and they
are hereby authorised nnd empowered to loan out upon
bond or bonds with good security drawing legal interest,
the balance that may remain from time to time after the
payment of said teacher, until the sum thus to be accu-
mulated shall be sufficient for the erection of a proper
and suitable school house for the use of one of the said
districts.

When sepa-
ration may
take place.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That whenever a majo-
rity of all the taxable inhabitants of the said two districts
shall, upon consultation in a meeting to be called for the
purpose, upon a full and fair notice given, agree and
determine that a separation of the said two districts shall
take place, it shall and may be lawful that such sepa-
ration shall be made.

Duties of trus-
tees after se-

paration.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That when such separa-
tion shall occur, the trustees of the said two districts
shall thereafter be elected in the same manner as was
provided for by law before the passage of the act to
which this is a supplement, and the trustees of that dis-
trict thus to be elected, which shall be without a school
house after such separation, shall be and they are hereby
authorised and empowered to have and to hold the bond

or bonds hereinbefore provided for, and to sue for and
collect the money to be due thereon, and to apply the
same in the erection of a school house upon such site as
the majority of the taxable inhabitants of such district
shall agree and determine upon.