T. WATKINS L1GON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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sioners for said district; that Alexander Somervill, John
Parran and Basil D. Bond, be, and are hereby appoint-
ed, school commissioners for district number one, and
that it shall be the duty of said commissioners, either
acting separately by districts, or conjointly for the whole
county, as to them may seem best, to proceed to lay
out each election district into not more than six school
districts, or if they should deem it best to act conjointly,
then to lay out the county into not more than eighteen
school districts, and it shall be the duly of the said com-
missioners, to make out a record of their proceedings,
describing the metes and hounds of the several school
districts, and deliver the same to the clerk of the circuit
court of the county, to be by him recorded without
charge.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in the event of
any vacancy occurring by the death, removal or resig-
nation of any one of said commissioners, the orphans
court snail have power to fill such vacancy.

Vacancy —
how filled.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That before any teacher
shall be employed by the trustees hereafter to be named,
he shall produce a certificate from the commissioners of
the election district in which he proposes to teach, cer-
tifying his capacity and fitness for a teacher of youth,
and it shall be the duty of said commissioners to deliver
to the orphans court of Calvert county, a list of the
names of those teachers to whom they have given cer-
tificates.

Qualification
of teacher.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the commissioners in the several election districts, to
give notice to the residents of each school district, by
advertisement set up at some public place, at least ten
days preceding the election, of the time and place of
such election, and it shall be the duty of the white male
inhabitants, above the age of twenty-one years, to meet
and elect five of the residents of said school district, to
act for one year as trustees for said school; and the said
trustees shall keep a book, in which their proceedings
shall be recorded by some one whom they shall appoint ;
the said trustees shall locate the site of the school house,
secure a title to the land on which it is to be built, re-
ceive contributions from all benevolently disposed per-
sons for that object, erect a school house thereon, and
employ a teacher, fix the amount to be paid for tuition
by such parents or guardians of pupils attending upon
the school, as the trustees shall judge able to pay, and
give a general superintendence over said school, and
make all needful rules and regulations for its govern-
ment; the said trustees shall also require the teacher

Duty of com-
missioners.