Milford chronicle., 1885-05-22

this act. Any vacancy in said Board occasioned
by DEATH resignation, refusal to serve, or other
wise. shall be fl led by the remaining members.
SECTION 8. II shall be the duty Of the said
Board Of Commissioners to carefully examine
and inquire concerning the proprety Of laying
out additional districts, Or OF consolidating exist
ing districts in said county; and wherever, after
such examination and inquiry, the said Board OF
Commissioners or a majority Of them, shall be Of
opinion that additional districts should be laid
of, or existing districts should be consolidated,
they shall proceed to lay off such additional dis
tricIs and to consolidate such existing districts
as to them shall seem proper. The said Com
missioners or a majority OF them, shah make re-.
turn Of such additional districts so located and
laid ont, and OF the part or parts OF the original
district or districts remaining after such add.
lional districts shall have been laid of, and Of
such districts US shall have been consolidated
describing plainly the metes ami bounds OF each
into the office OF the Clerk Of the Peace Of said
county, who shall carefully preserve the same
for the inspection Of the citizens of said county
Tie duties prescribed above shall be per.
foTmsd. and the said return shall be made before
the first day of August, 1885. Notice oithe I'll.
ing of said return shal be given by the secre-
tary OF the Board Of Commissioners to the clerk
of each district to be aft cted by Tie redsirictng
or consolidation aforesaid, within five days alter
said return shall have been lodged with the said
Celk Of the Peace. Tie clerks Of the said dis.
trics shall, within three days after the receipt OF
said notice, cause a copy thereof to be posted in
at least four pubic places in their respective dis
tricts. Il shall be the duty Of the said Clerk OF
the Peace TO lay the said return before the said
Board of Commissioners on the last Tuesday in
August, 1885, which said Board OF Commissioners
shall on tina: day meet at Georgetown Tor the
purpose Of hearing any objections that may be
made TO said return; and the said Board may
make any corrections or alterations OF the said
return which they shall consider proper. They
shall number the additional districts IN continu.
alton Of the school districts in the county, and
shall appoint place in each OF the additional or
consolidated districts for the meeting OF the school
voters. Tie said Board shall cause a fair tran.
script to be made of said return as corrected and
altered, and the said transcript after il shall have
been examined by the said Board, and attested
by the Secretary, shall be lodged with the Clerk
of the Peace Of said county, to be by him filed
among the records Of bis office. A certified COPY
thereof shall be evidence. For the purpose of
hearing objections as aforesaid, and making al.
terations and corrections, in said return, and exam
lining the said transcript, the said Board NAV ad.
iourn from day to day provided that all the duties
herein required them shall be performed before
the tenth day Of September, 1885. On and after
the first day Of April. 1886, the additional dis.
tricts as described in the aforesaid transcript OF
the return, shall be deemed and taken TO be
school districts of said county and all acts of the
General Assembly OF this State for the general
regulation, government, and benefit of free
schools shall be extended and applied TO said ad
ditional and consolidated districts; and the trus.
tee of the school fund IN the distribution of the
school fund or OF any State appropriation, appli.
cable to school districts in said county shall give
to said additional districts an equal proportion Of
the money in his hands applicable to school dis.
trcts in said county. The laws regulating the
apportionment of the school fund Or State appro-
priation, among the united school districts ofths
State. and the payment and application of the
same and the amount OF taxation and the gem
eral powers of ssid united school districts shall
apply 20 the di4x19i 9gi9Lidatel under the pro-
VISIONS 4 81 - j. Hooper
sP~ IS CALVERT ST., BALTIMORE, MD.
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