The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-04-17
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ELKTON, APRIL II, 1869.
Election OF School Trustees.

Election OF School Trustees.
Notice has been given by Rev John
Squier, Secretary of the County School
Board, by publication in the county pa
pers, that an election for two Trustees
in each School District, will be held on
the first Saturday of May, at O'Clock
P. NJ.
The law does not appear very clear
on the point Of holding elections. The
Secretary of the County School Com
missioners quotes sec. l. Of chap. " OF
the School Law, which prescribes that
-" For the purpose of electing two
Trustees of the SCHOOL HOUSE DIS
TRICT," &c, an election shall be hello
bv ballot in every Such DISTRICT"
Sec l, chap. Ill of the Law reads
thus" The schools under the charge
of the Board of County School Com
missioners for each county, shall be re-
spectively designated and constitute
school districts No. l, No. 2, &c, of the
respective election" 1t will be per-
ceived that the law cnumerates two dis
tinct districts, which it terms I" School,
Districts and "School House Dis
tricts." The former Of these is descriL-
cd in sec. l. of chap. III, as Districts
Of such county"
Sec , and 3 of chapter l. creates
"school district boards composed OF
three persons, one Of whom shall be
the School Commissioner of the election
district in which the school house is
situated" and the'two School District
Trustees who shall be elected by the
legal voters Of the SCHOOL HOUSE DIS
Tg1Cr. Now there are several school
houses with their surrounding Districts,
located in each Election District. The
District attached to each school house
is about four miles square, or as near
that size as the geography of the coun-
try will allow Each of those school
houses receives its pupils and the two
Trustees from the territory constituting
its district. Parents and children as
well as Trustees, have no direct inter
est in any school outside their own Dis
trict The question is, are ali those
Trustees to be elected by general vote
OF the whole voting population of the
Election District, or are the people of
each School-Housc District to attend to
the election of the trustees of their own
school? This latter is very clearly the
proper way; but the law does not pre-
scribe this mode, neither does it forbid
the elections for trustees being held in
this manner The Secretary in his or
der for holding elections seems to imply
that the elections shall be by general
ballot Of the voters of the Election Dis
trict, and held at the legal poll in each
District, which is clearly improper; for
the electors of \. have little or no in
tercst in the trustees Of B. and viii
have no desire to vote fcr them if it
cen he avoided viii the Secretary or
President of the School Board give the
public little more light on this sub
j"ct before tie day of election?
The Wilmington COMMERCIAL,
that live and leading Republican paper
OF the little Diamond State. is now
published s the corner Of 5;h and Mar
ket SIS. The entcrprising propr;ctor~,
Mossrs. jenkins & Atkinson, have pur-
chased the building on the southwest
corner of those streets, and are fitting
it up for 9 publishing and job Office, in
the most complete style, We called at
the new establishment, on Thursday
last, and found carpenters and printers
all driving away in the same building
with hammer and saw, type and presses.
The fine book, job and newspaper csta5-
lishment which that enterprisinG. firm
has built Up in the short space Of three
years, in the midst OF q competitor
which had brought the business down
to almost starvation prices, is an evil
tlence Of what ?,iuck and brains, well
directed, can accomplish. The work
turned out by the job department Of the
COMMERCIAL will compare favorab!y
with the best Philadelphia offices, and
the citizens Of Wilmington should take
a pride in aiding such laudble enter
prise, by having ali OF their printing
done in their own city, in place Of TAX
ing "a large portion of ii to Philadelphia,
where they get it done neither cheaper
nor better, aud often not so neatly nor
ehcaply as they could have it executed
at home Patronize home industry.
and thereby help yourselves, is the
true philosophy of trade.
MARYLAND APPoISrMEETs-M Minister
Resident at Nenezuela-James l.. Par
fridge, of Baltimore. Pension Agent for
Maryland-Col. Harrison Adreon.
The following are the nominations for
Internal Revenue officers for Maryland:
First District-Collect,r. James McIn.
tire, of Cecil; Assessor, Col. Samuel \.
Graham, of Somerset county. Second Dis
trict-Collector, Samuel VI. Evans, of Bal
timorc; Assessor, William Galloway
Fifth Observation-Disclosures Gen. David L.
Stanton: Assessor. B. Rush Roberts. The
Third District was settled some two weeks
since by the appointment of Robert N.
Smith rs Collector, the Assessorship to re-
main i'll the hands of General Ross.
THE SEASONS" While the eartl. re-
maineth, seed time and harvest and cold
and heat, and summer and winter, and day
and night shall not cease"