T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 295.

AN ACT to establish primary schools in election dis-
tricts numbers three and four, in Caroline county.

Passed
Mar. 10, 1854.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That on the first Saturday in December
next, and annually thereafter, the taxable inhabitants
of the several school districts of the elections districts
numbers three and four, of Caroline county, shall meet
at the school houses in their respective school districts,
at which time a majority of the taxable inhabitants
there assembled shall elect five trustees for their respec-
tive schools, whose term of service shall be one year,
and until the election of their successors; and at whose
meetings a majority shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business.

Power to elect
trustees.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the trustees of the several schools so elected, to ap-
point a treasurer for their several school districts, who
shall give bond to the State of Maryland, to be approv-
ed of by the trustees of the several schools, which bond
shall be deposited for safe keeping in the office of the
register of wills for Caroline county, where the orphans
court shall pay or cause to be paid to the order of said
trustees respectively their just proportion of any unin-
vested school funds which may appear to be due to the
election districts numbers three and four of said county,
and said trustees shall be authorised to invest said funds
and apply the same to the several respective schools in
said districts.

Duty of trus-
tees.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the orphans court
of Caroline county shall annually pay to the order of
trustees of the several schools in the districts numbers
three and four of said county, their just proportion of all
the school funds belonging or due the said districts
numbers three and four, which may from time to time
be due and paid by the treasurer of this State for the
use of said county.

Orphans
court to pay
proportion of
fund.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the trustees of the
several schools shall have full power to lay such a tax
from time to time on the taxable property of their re-
spective districts assessed under the provisions of the
law for general valuations and assessments of properly
in this State from time to time as may be necessary, in

Power to levy
tax.