The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-09-13

report Oh The ScnOOl OOmmlSSlOneTSs-
The Board met, agreeable to bylaws, on
Tuesday last. All the members present.
Tbs minutes of last meeting were read
and approved.
Mr.. G. w. Jackson appeared before the
Board and made a statement in regard to
the affair of the new school house at North
East, and on motion the Board made final
settlement with him by paying balance
of $171.19.
The School House Committee of the
Fifth Election District reported that they
had sold the old school house and lot in
North East at public sale on the 23rd of
August, for the sum of $345, to II. W..
Shallcross, and had ordered forty-four new
desks for the new school house. The re-
port was accepted and adopted.
Commissioner George Biddle reported
that Back Greek School House, No. 8, in
Second Election District. is finished, and
moved that the bill $3.50 be paid to E. II.
Biddle by G. W. Boulder and Eli ]. Foard.
On motion Mr.. Jacques Cayot was
appointed trustee for School No. 2. in Sec
ond Election District, vice w. Clayton, re-
fusing to serve.
Mr.. McKane, on behalf of the Board of
Trustees Of School No. 2, in the Fourth
Election District, stated that there were
about twelve pupils in that school from
other districts without permits, but at the
lie
from the school district in the school,
After hearing his statement, it was
"Resolyed, That the teacher may teach
such pupils for the present quarter, provid-
ed no injustice is done to the other pupils,
and no increased salary shall be paid for
such pupils unless they have permits from
the respective Boards Of trustees"
Messrs. Richard Mckee and William
Flintham preferred request to the Board
Neck, stating that the children from that
district had to be taken over to Delaware
to educate them; and after full hearing
of the case, it was on motion
Resolced, That the Board appropriate
$3.50 to that district to build new school
house; provided, the patrons in that district
and their friends would build a house 1SX
"a, and sink we'll and furnish it with a
pump"
The bill of I. s. Deford for selling school
house and lot in North East, amounting to
So, was examined and ordered to be paid
The Board took recess until two o'clock
P. NJ.
After recess the Board resumed business
On motion the President and Secretary
were authorized to give note of the Board
to J. w. Bond 6 Co., to the amount of
$402.72 for books and stationery.
The President, as ch airman of the COM
mittee appointed to visit and examine the
new school house for colored pupils offered
to the Board, near Rowlandville, reported
that the school house was we'll built and
capable of accommodating forty five pupils;
and further, that it would accommodate
pupils from parts of the Sixth, Seventh
and Eighth Election districts; and RECON-
mended that the Board accept the school
house, and that the Treasurer be authoriz-
ed to pay the balance of Indebtedness on
the house, amounting to $1G7, whenever the
School Commissioners have sufficient title
for said house and lot. Report accepted
and adopted.
"Resolped, That the book on Good
Morals and Good Manners by Alexander
Cow, be adopted as one of the ext-books
for the public Schools of this county,
On motion adjourned.
The Board was engaged in business until
six o'clock P. NJ.