1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 221.

March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and so annually,
as they occur; if a vacancy shall happen before said
election, or at any time thereafter, during the time for
which the last incumbent shall have been appointed or
elected, the remaining two members of the said Board
of Education, by their appointment of some competent
person, shall fill such vacancy until the next regular
school election, when the school voters of the county shall
choose a competent person to serve for the unexpired
term of the last incumbent; for refusing to perform any
required duty, after having accepted and qualified, each
member of said Board, or their successors, shall be lia-
ble to a fine of ten dollars, to be recovered by indict-
ment, in the county court, to be applied for school pur-
poses.

To survey and
locate school
districts.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the county sur-
veyor of Cecil county, be and he is hereby authorised
and required to divide and lay off the said county into
school districts, without reference to election district
lines: in laying off the said school districts, he shall
avoid the expense and delay of actual surveys, except
in cases where they are indispensable, and shall adopt
as the outlines of said several districts, natural bounda-
ries and farm lines; he shall consult and advise with the
voters and inhabitants of each neighborhood, which he
shall consider proper to be embraced in school district
lines, having regard in all cases to the awarding of equal
facilities to the several school districts and to the inhabi-
tants of each district as far as the game may be practi-
cable; he shall have due regard to economy in the
number of school districts so as not to increase the ex-
pense of the system beyond what is absolutely necessa-
ry to bring the district school within reasonable distance

To report to
Board of Edu-
cation.

of each scholar; he shall, on or before the second Mon-
day in September next ensuing the passage of this act,
make a full report of all his labors, and of the locations
and divisions made by him in pursuance of this act, to
the Board of Education, setting forth in his said report,
as nearly as he can with diligent inquiry and examina-
tion ascertain, the number of children in each school
district, between the ages of six and twenty years; he
shall state what districts will require new school houses,
and what is the size and character of the school-house
in any district which may in his judgment answer the
purposes of a district school; he shall be authorised to
appoint one or more deputies for the purpose of assist-
ing in the discharge of these duties, who, with the said
surveyor, shall each be entitled to receive three dollars
a day for each and every day they are engaged in the