PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

such division will conduce to the interest and conveni-
ence of the inhabitants of said district.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That so soon as the said
commissioners shall have laid out the said school dis-
trict, and made their report to the levy court, which they
are hereby required to do, within sixty days from and
after the passage of this act, to be by the said levy court
recorded, it shall be the duty of the trustees of the school
fund of Prince George's county, and they are hereby
directed to contract for, and superintend the erection and

CHAP. 338.

Levy court to
erect a school
house.

construction of a school house in said district; provided,
the cost thereof shall not exceed three hundred dollars,
and for that purpose, the said trustees are hereby autho-
rised to condemn any land in said district, on which to
erect said school house for the public use, and to value
the same, which said valuation, together with the cost
of erecting said house, shall be paid for in the manner
provided for by the act at December session, eighteen
hundred and thirty-eight, chapter sixty-one.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That so soon as the said
school house is erected and completed, the said trustees
shall have power to employ a teacher therefor, and pay
him in the same manner as other teachers of primary
schools are paid, and the levy court of Prince George's
county, are hereby directed annually thereafter, to levy
and assess upon the taxable property of said county,
subject to the order of said trustees, such sum of money
as may be necessary to pay the annual salary of said
teacher, to be collected and paid as other teachers are
paid.

To appoint a
teacher.

SEC. 4. And be if enacted, That the said school
house heretofore mentioned and directed to be built, be
deemed and considered as a free school, and it is hereby
placed on the same footing, entitled to the same privi-
leges, and subject to the same regulations that other free
schools in said county are subject and entitled to.

To be deemed
a free school.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the surveyor of
the county is hereby directed to give his services, if re-
quired, to survey and lay out the said district and lot of
ground, which may be deemed necessary for the erec-
tion of the said school house hereinbefore directed to be
built, and the levy court is hereby directed to allow said
surveyor such compensation for his services as they may
deem adequate.

Duty of county
surveyor.