PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

until the first Saturday in March, eighteen hundred and
fifty-three, and until their respective successors shall be
duly elected and qualified; they shall assemble in the
town of Elkton within twenty days after this act shall
go into operation, and shall then and there decide by
lot their respective terms of service, and shall certify the
same, when ascertained, under their hands and seals to
the register of wills or orphans court of Cecil county;

CHAP. 221.

they shall then each take and subscribe the following
oath or affirmation: I, A B, do swear, or solemnly, sin-
cerely and truly declare and affirm, that I will well and
faithfully execute and perform the several trusts and
duties reposed in and imposed upon me by law as a
member of the Board of Education for Cecil county,
without partiality or prejudice, and that 1 will faithfully
and impartially, to the best of my skill and ability, hear,
adjudge and determine upon any and nil matters of con-
troversy that may be submitted to my consideration as a
member of the said Board, under the provisions of this
act, without fear, favor or affection, which said oath or
affirmation shall be taken before any justice of the peace
of the said county, and filed with the register of wills
for said county, within ten days thereafter, and the said
above named persons, and their successors, duly elected
and qualified, according to the provisions of this act, as
members of the said Board of Education for Cecil coun-
ty, shall have and exercise the following powers and

Oath required.

perform the following duties: they shall compose a
Board of Examination of all applicants for the situation
of teacher in any of the schools herein to be provided
for; they shall carefully examine into the character and
qualifications of every such applicant, who must be a
person of good moral character, qualified to govern as
well as to teach, and well qualified to impart instruction
in at least the following branches: reading, writing, arith-
metic, English grammar and geography; they shall give
Jo every applicant, whom they shall find qualified, a
certificate thereof in writing, which must be signed by
at least two of the members of said Board; they shall
exercise a general superintendence over the business of
laying off the county into school districts, shall hear and
determine upon appeals and complaints arising therein,
and shall exercise such further powers and perform such
further duties as are hereinafter conferred upon or re-
quired of them; they shall be entitled to receive one dol-
lar each for each and every day they shall be necessarily
in session to perform any duty imposed upon them by
this act; the first vacancy shall be filled at the election
hereinafter to be provided for, which will take place in

Board of Edu-
cation — their
powers and du-
ties.