The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-09-18

Proceedings of School commissioners
The Board met on Tuesday last, agreeable
to by-laws-all the members present.
The minutes of last meeting were read
and approved.
The following bills were examined and
ordered to be paid: Bill of J. NJ. Bond &
Co., for new desks for school house in
Elkton, amounting to 1895; bill of w. X
Holt for repairs on Southampton school
house, amounting to $2S SO; bill for insur.
ance on the Elkton school house.
A petition was presented from the Trus-
tees of the Carpenter Point Neck school,
asking for the use of the school house for
a singing school, which was granted, the
Trustees being responsible for all property
injured or destroyed.
The bill of Col. G. r. Howard for freight
and removal of desks from the old school
house to the new, amounting to $31. 40,
was examined and ordered to be paid.
Mr.. Samuel J. MCGEE petitioned for the
use of the school house in Cecilton to hold
Sabbath school, offering to be responsible
for any damage which might take place.
On motion, the request was granted.
A communication was received and read
from the officers of Wickersham Institute,
asking the Board to make a distinction
between those teachers who attend the
Institute and those who do not, and also
asking for compensation for the time spent
in attendance. The communication was
laid on the table as not being respectful in
its tone or demands.
Mr.. S. J. England, from the School
House Committee of the Ninth District,
reported that they had examined the new
school house for colored children, built
near the Brick Meeting House, and found
the same finished agreeable to the contract,
cepted and the price agreed upon ordered
to be paid. Report accepted and adopted.
Cost of house and furniture, 1872.
The committee to visit the Union school
house, in the Fourth District, reported that
they had visited the school house, and after
a conference with some of the Trustees
and an examination of the house, are OF
the opinion that with some slight repairs
it will do for the present. Report accepted
and adopted.
The Trustees of the African Methodist
Church made a proposition to the Board
to buy the old school house in Elkton,
offering $1,000-$400 in sixty days, and
the balance in regular instalments of $3.50
asyear. No action.
The committee appointed to make out
the boundaries of the school district of
Carter school, No. 9, reported that they
had visited the district and examined the
same and would recommend the following
boundaries: commencing at point on the
little stream above James Champions, and
running thence to the head of the rivulet
near Frank Rocks; thence by said rivulet
to the Little Elk creek; thence up the said
creek to where the road from Cherry Hill
crosses the creek; thence by a straight line
to the plank road to a point near Thomas
longs; thence up same road to the road
leading to Elk paper mills; thence by this
road to the road by the Elk near the paper
mill, and thence by a straight line to place
of beginning; that they cause notice of
these boundaries to be published in the
county papers, that all parties interested
might know them and make any sugges-
items or changes in these bounds if SO de-
sired. None have been made but what are
embraced in this report, and your commit
tee recommended that these boundaries be
approved as those of School No. 9, in the
Fourth Election District. All of which is
respectfully submitted
S. ]. ENGLAND,
j. SQUIER,
Committae