The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-05-11
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

MEETING or THE SCHOOL BoARD.-The
Board of School Commissioners met on Mon
day last, chiefly to appoint and rectify the
several boards public school trustees, which
will be publicly announced next week.
An application was presented with an esti-
mate of the cost to repair the house Of school
No. Z, in the 9Th election district. After
careful inquiry, an order was made that the
trustees of said house be notified TO proceed
with said repairs, keeping within the limits OF
the estimated expense.
A notice was read that the county scholar
ship in Western Maryland College due to the
FIRST and the eighth election districts. are va
cant; and applicants, il there be any in those
districts, are requested TO present their APP
plications with evidence of their qualifications
for college classes. There may probably soon
be other vacancies, Of which due notice will
be given.
The Examiner was authorized TO prepare
for, and, at his discretion, for the time and
place, or times and places, of his annual pub
lie examination of teachers, Of which previ-
Gus notice will be published.
As directed by the Board, the Treasurer
paid balance due for books, stationery,
&c, amounting to S424.40, bill Of $500
for rent of a school-house, and several other
small items Of expense, amounting in the az
IIeZaie 10 the sum oil -4c1.Ao.
Ii being generally known that the Board
has no funds on hand for building purposes,
an urgent application for a new school dis
trict, accompanied with two separate propo-
sitions to build scheol-house at or near Mt.
Vernon, (Jewsburg,) in the Ilih election dis
trict, was presented, One proposition was,
that the people of that place and the sur
rounding neighborhood, are willing, at their
own expense, TO build frame SCHOOL, house,
thereafter holding i as their own property,
provided that the School Board will supply
and pay their teacher, defraying all the ex-
pense Of the school except the cost of the
land and building, which viii be at the cost
of the builders and those who connect with
them. The other proposition was, that the
said interested people, at their own expense
in the first place, will build a good school
house Of brick, or as they may be directed by
the School Board, 10 cost about $500 or
more, with the understanding that the Board
viii properly furnish it and establish school
therein as in the generality of public schools
in Carroll county, and eventually, when in
possession OF unappropriated available funds
for building purposes, will pay to the then
owners the sum of $500 for the legal quantity
of land and the brick house erected thereon,
If built as the School Board shall have direc-
ted. The latter proposition was accepted
and trustees were appointed with instructions
to proceed to build, and, in cooperation with
the trustees of all adjoining school districts,
10 establish the boundaries of the new school
district thus created, to be called and known
as Mount Vernon-all of which, as fast as
executed from time to time, is to be reported
in writing to the Secretary, to be submitted
for approval by the School Board. The fol-
lowing named gentlemen we're appointed to
act as the trustees of Mount Vernon School
District, and to execute the foregoing agree
ment; Messrs. Jesse Haines, Peter L. Cover
and Reuben W. Haines.
The members of the Board, having prepar-
ed their lists of trustees. proceeded to read
them in regular order, all of which were APP
proved with the distinct understanding that
in no case will the appointed gentlemen who
shall not have met and organized according
TO law, by electing a. Chairman, and thereof
notifying the Secretary of the School Board
in writing, be recognized as such by the pub
lie school authorities.
All the trustee appointments, as made by
the School Commissioners, viii be given to
the public next week.