610 SAINT MARY'S COUNTY. [ART. 18.

	SCHOOLS. 1664, c. 67 adds the following sections:
1864, c 67. Trustees to procure sites for schools	118. The trustees of any school district may pro- cure by gift, purchase or devise, a site not exceeding five acres of land, for the erection of a school-house within their respective districts, a due regard being had to centrality of location and other conveniences necessary to a public school.
May condemn sites.	119. If the trustees of any school district shall not be able to procure by gift, purchase or devise, a suit- able site for a school-house, they may condemn a site not exceeding one acre, having, due regard to the rights and interests of the owner or owners of land sought to be condemned, and confining such con- demnation in all cases, unless impracticable, to the outer borders of the tract or parcel of land from which said condemned site shall be selected.
Proceedings in cases of con- demnation.	120. In all cases in which it shall be necessary to condemn a site, the trustees shall cause to be served on the owner of the land to be condemned, a notice in writing, signed by at least a majority of a full board, of the place and time of viewing and con- demning such site, and they shall assess the value and damages; and such condemnation and assessed value and damages, shall be approved and certified to, by a majority of a full board; and the said site shall be meted and bounded and certified to by a competent surveyor, and said certificates of condem- nation and survey, shall Be filed in the county clerk's office, and be recorded by said clerk within sixty days from date of condemnation, as evidence of title, unless the judgment of condemnation by the trustees, shall be reversed by the circuit court, for the county.
Right of appeal by land owner	121. The owner of land so condemned shall have the right of appeal to the circuit court, at the first term thereof, after such condemnation, and the judg- ment of said court shall be final.