The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-06-18
School Commissioners.

There was regular meeting OF the
School Board on Tuesday. June 9Th,
with a full Board in attendance. The
minutes of the meetings on May and
May IS. were read and approved.
The following orders were passed:
Ordered that the resignation of James
Armstrong, of the F airmount Heights
Colored School be accepted.
Ordered that the construction OF the
Collington and Bladensburg school
houses be intrusted to E. S. Burroughs
with full power to act in the premises !;
with the distinct understanding that the
cost of the buildings shall not exceed
the respective appropriations.
Ordered that the resignation OF Mrs.
George S. Harrison, trustee of College
Park white school, be accepted, and that
Mr.. Henry T. Harrison, be appointed
in her place.
Ordered, that the Hyattsvllle High
school for certain good reasons, be kept
open until ordered closed by the Super
intendent.
Ordered, that the petition for the re-
moval of the Trustees of school, near
Tuxedo, taught by Miss Bessie Catrup,
be deferred for action upon until July
"a. In the meantime the said trustees
are to be notified of the petition filed
5ainst them.
Ordered, that Rhinello Ford be ap-
pointed Trustee of colored school No g.,
Marlboro district, in place of Thomas
Proctor, who has left the neighborhood.
Ordered that all the teachers of white
schools, who were absent on Rally Day
and all who were absent from their
schools on May 81, be charged per-dl-
um for those days and the amount de-
Quoted from salaries.
Ordered, that the c. and P. Telephone
Company be granted the right to place
telephone posts on school house sites
provided the position of the poles on
each site be approved by the local board
of said school.
Ordered, that the incidental expenses
presented by the Principal of the Hyatts-
vile white public school be lett for set
Element to the Superintendent.
Ordered, that ten dollars be given the
Marlboro High School for library
Twenty five dollars having been raised
by the school for the purchase of books
the school has gained this amount under
the school law.
Ordered, that the Superintendent be
authorized to advertise and sell at public
sale the old school property of Caplto
Heights white school.
The Board was advised that six va
cant scholarships exists in the State
Normal School for white children.
Mr. Clay Washington, from Accokeel
neighborhood, made an earnest appea
for the establishment of a coloret
school in that vicinity. Messrs. Law
renee and Burroughs were requested t.
visit the neighborhood and thoroughly
investigate the situation and to deter
mine if a school is needed, and all par
ticulars in connection Herewith.
Miss Martha Rogers was notified tina
no compensation would be allowed he
for extra work las said work was not per
formed between the hours of nine ant
four, the hours required by law to
teachers to be in their school rooms.
The request of the Trustees OF tn
white school at Tuxedo asking permits
sion to use their school building TO
meetings of the Women's Temperate
Union, for declaiming contest, was de
MED.
The Board adjourned to meet o
July 73rd, 1915.