Chapter CLI. *relating to Schools for the Education of Colored Children in the Cities of Washington and Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.* July 11, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Duties of trustees of public schools
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Chap. CLI.— An Act *relating to Schools for the Education of Colored Children in the Cities of Washington and Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.* July 11, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Duties of trustees of public schools under act 1862, ch. 83. (*ante*. p. 407,) That the duties imposed on the board of trustees of the public schools in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, by virtue of an act entitled 538 THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 151, 154, 155. 1862. transferred to special board of trustees.“An act providing for the education of colored children in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be, and the same are hereby, transferred to Daniel Breed, Sayles J. Bowen, and Zen as C. Robbins, and their successors in office, who are hereby created a board of trustees of the schools for colored children in the cities Powers and duties of news board.aforesaid, and who shall possess all the powers and perform all the duties conferred upon and required of the trustees of public schools in the said cities of Washington and Georgetown by the aforesaid act.
Sec. 2. Term of office of trustees. *And be it further enacted, *That the before-named trustees shall hold their offices for the respective terms of one, two, and three years, to be determined by lot, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and annually on that day thereafter, to appoint from among the residents of the said cities a trustee in place of the one whose term has expired or is Vacancies.about to expire.
And the Secretary of the Interior is also authorized to fill vacancies in said board of trustees whenever, from any cause, such vacancies may occur. Approved, July 11, 1862.