The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-12-25
EGIS & lNTELLlGEN Ger SUPP LENOEnlT.

latlng TO the GutleS or MS OHlCe, ana preserve
the same, and all vouchers relating thereto, and
deliver up all books and vouchers relating to
his office to his successors: ''' .H f.t
Sec A. The State school fund is primarily in
tended, under this Act to pay the salaries of the
teachers of the several counties, and to provide
school books and stationery for the children of
the State If, however, in apportioning the said
State school fund among the different counties
and the city of Baltimore, the share of any coun-
ty should prove inadequate for the purposes
aforesaid, then the County Commissioners of
such county are hereby authorized, empowered,
directed and required to levy and collect such
tax upon the assessable property Of such county
as the Board of County School Commissioners
shall designate as sufficient to make good the de-
ficency, and to pay quarterly, OH the days fixed
for the payment of the State school fund to the
several counties, the amount so levied and col
lected over to the treasurer of the said Board of
County School Commissioners, in order that the
schools of such counties may be kept open for
the time herein set forth, and said tax shall be
levied and collected as other taxes. 1t shall al
SO be in the power of the legal voters of any
county to decide upon the imposition OF tax
for the erection and maintenance of a county
high school, or for any other educational pull
pose affecting and concerning the county gener.
ally said tax to be levied and collected as
aforesaid, and to be paid to the Treasurer of the
said N. -'I -Jr. '.,s ta 81 .'.f
Sec g. For the purpose of ascertaining the
sense of the people of q county in regard to any
proportion intended to affect public education
| in said county, the Board of County School
Commissioners shall cause such proposition to
be submitted to the voters Of said county at the
general election next ensuing provided, said
proposition and notice of election be published
in all the newspapers Of said county, once
Gov To hn
day of said election !; and said Board of County
School Commissioners shall cause to be printed
and placed at each poll in said county, on the
dav of said election, before the opening of said
poll, sufficient number of ballots having on
them "For' or against the proposition, in
words accurately describing the same, And the
judges of said general election, shall receive, de-
post count, and make returns of all the ballots
cast for and against the proposition to the clerk
of the Circuit Court of said county, in the same
manner and subject to the same regulations as
are provided by law in case Of a general cleo
ton for members of the General Assembly. =
And said clerk of the Circuit Court shall return
the same to the Board of County Commissioners
and to the Board of County School Commits
soners at their first meeting respectively held af
ter said election. And the County Commission
sioners of said county shall levy on the property
in said county, and collect the same as other
taxes are levied and collected, sum sufficient to
defray the expenses of said election and publica-
ton, as certified to them by the Board of Coun.
ty School Commissioners. 80 -t
Sec. 6. In all cases where the county has not
been properly divided into school districts, and
full records of the boundaries thereof have not
been made and recorded, the Board of County
School Commissioners shall appoint committee,
if in their opinion they deem it necessary, con-
sisting of three persons Of intelligence and sound
judgment, members of their own body or other
wise, who shall divide the county into suitable
school districts, define and describe the bounda-
res of each; provided, that n school, district
shall contain greater area than four miles
square, unless part of it be located in thinly
settled region. In the formation of the, school
districts, the committee shall take into consider
alton the most suitable place for the schoolhouse,
the general feature, of the country, and shall
make each school district Of such size and form
as will best accommodate the population within
its bounds. The committee shall make an ac-
curate description of the bounds Of the school
districts, accompanied by aplat, and shall re-
port the same to the Board of County School
Commissioners, who shall therenpon give notice
in all the newspapers of the county at what
time they will meet to hear applications for a.
change of boundaries, which applications shall
be made in writing, and within two months
from the date of the first publication of such no.
tice. When the applications shall have been
made and considered, the Board of County
School, Commissoners may then. change the
boundaries of the school DISTRICTS and revise the
description; or they may, without application,
make such change as may be deemed important,
or they may ratify and confirm the report of the
committee. The description of the boundaries
of school districts shall be recorded in book
kept for that purpose, by the Secretary of the
Board Of County School Commissioners, In
those counties where no newspaper is published
the notice of application for a change of boun-.
DIARIES shall be published in such a manner as
the Board of County School Commissioners may
decide Whenever it may be necessary, the
Board of County School Commissioners shall
employ surveyor to aid the committee IN the