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CHAP. 221.
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tures, and for such other school purposes as the said
board of trustees shall deem most advantageous to the
interest of the said district school, and it shall be the
duty of the heard of education to order and direct the,
superintendent to invest in bonds of the State of Ma-
ryland or in certificates of loon of the United States,
to be held by said superintendent and his successors for
the purposes of this act, any surplus that may remain of
the said existing poor school fund, after the said sum
of two hundred dollars is contributed to each school dis-
trict under the provisions of this section, the interest
arising thereon to be received by the said superintendent,
and his successors, and appropriated to the general
county fund to meet any deficiency in the collection of
taxes, the principal to remain so invested until it may
be required for the construction of such additional build-
ings as may hereafter be required in said county for
school purposes.
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Qualification of
district trustees.
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SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the trustees of the
several school districts in the said county, who shall be
first chosen under this act, shall meet at the places of
holding their said first election, on the first Saturday after
they are so ejected, and shall then and there proceed to
organize and qualify by taking and subscribing an oath
or affirmation, which each may administer to the others,
that they will each faithfully and impartially discharge
the duties required of them as trustees of the said dis-
tricts respectively; they shall then have power to appoint
a clerk, and also an assessor and collector of district
taxes if necessary, and said clerks, assessors and collec-
tors shall hold their respective offices for and during the
period for which the trustees by whom they are ap-
pointed shall be elected, and until their successors are
duly appointed; and on the said first Saturday after
they are elected, the said several boards of trustees shall
take measures to procure, in each of the said school dis-
tricts, a lot of land, at the expense of the said districts
respectively, for the purpose of erecting thereon a dis-
trict school house, and when said lot is obtained, and a
title thereto secured in the name of the said trustees and
their successors, they shall notify the board of education,
who shall furnish them with a model or plan for said
house and fixtures, with specifications therefor, and
when the said house and fixtures has been completed,
according to the model and specifications, the superin-
tendent, or some member of the board of education,
shall inspect the same, and, upon his favorable report,
the board of education shall order and direct the trea-
surer to pay over to the trustees of said district, the
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