GIFT OF 
 
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAWS 
 
 OF MARYLAND 
 
 As contained in the Code of Public General Laws of 1912 
 and the Acts of Assembly of 1912 and 1914 
 
 AND THE 
 
 BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF 
 
 THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM 
 
 OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND 
 
 Published by Authority of 
 THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 
 
 Press of 
 
 MEYER & THALHEIMER 
 BALTIMORE 
 
THE 
 
 PUBLIC SCHOOL LAWS 
 
 OF MARYLAND 
 
 As Contained in Code of Public General Laws of 1912 
 
 and the Acts of Assembly of 1912 and 1914 
 
 Published by A uthority of The State 
 
 Board of Education 
 
 Press of 
 
 MEYER & THALHEIMER 
 
 BALTIMORE 
 
 1914 
 
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 NOTE. The arrangement and numbering of the chapters and sections in this 
 pamphlet are made to correspond with that of the Code of Public General Laws 
 of 1912. Sections of the Acts of Assembly of 1912 and 1914 are arranged consecutively 
 with the sections of the Code. The reference of most recent enactment only is given 
 and will be found preceding each section. References to court decisions follow the 
 section. Full references can be found in the Code. 
 
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 
 1914 
 
 GOVERNOR PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, President. 
 
 M. BATES STEPHENS, Secretary. 
 THOMAS H. LEWIS, -------- Westminster 
 
 HENRY C. LONGNECKER, -------- Towson 
 
 THOMAS H. BOCK, ------ 
 
 WILLIAM T. WARBURTON, - 
 
 JOHN O. SPENCER, - 
 HENRY SHRIVER, 
 
 - Princess Anne 
 - - Hlkton 
 - Baltimore 
 Cumberland 
 
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THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAWS 
 
 OF MARYLAND 
 
 AS CONTAINED IN THE MARYLAND CODE OF PUBLIC GEN- 
 ERAL LAWS OF 1912, AND SUBSEQUENT 
 AMENDMENTS. 
 
 PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION, 1872, AMENDED AT THE 
 JANUARY SESSION, 1874, 1884, 1886, 1888, 1890, 1892, 1894, 1896, 
 1898, 1900, 1902, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1910, 1912 and 1914. 
 
 CONSTITUTION OF 1867 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 EDUCATION. 
 
 Section 1. The General Assembly, at its first session after 
 the adoption of this constitution, shall by law establish through- 
 out the State a thorough and efficient system of free public 
 schools; and shall provide by taxation, or otherwise, for their 
 maintenance. 
 
 Clark vs. Md. Institute, 87 Md., 661. 
 
 Section 2. The system, of public schools, as now constituted, 
 shall remain in force until the end of the said first session of the' 
 General Assembly, and shall then expire, except so far as 
 adopted or continued by the General Assembly. 
 
 Section 3. The school fund of the State shall be kept in- 
 violate, and appropriated only to the purposes of education. 
 
 ARTICLE LXXVII. 
 
 (CODE OF 1912.) 
 
 PUBLIC EDUCATION. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 1. There shall be throughout the State of Maryland a general 
 system of free public schools, according to provisions of this 
 article. 
 
 St. Mary's Industrial School vs. Brown, 45 Md., 311. 
 
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 CHAPTER 1 Supervision. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 2. Educational matters affecting the State, and the general 
 care and supervision of public education, shall be entrusted to a 
 State board of education. 
 
 3. Educational matters affecting a county shall be under the 
 control of a board of county school commissioners. 
 
 94th Md. 344. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 4. Educational matters affecting a school district shall be 
 under the supervision of a board of district school trustees. 
 
 CHAPTER 2 Formation of Board. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 5. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the 
 senate, if in session, and without said advice and consent when 
 not in session, shall appoint before the first Monday in May, 
 next ensuing, six persons, at least two of whom shall be from 
 the political party which at the last preceding election for gov- 
 ernor received next to the highest number of votes, said minority 
 representation of at least two members as aforesaid to be con- 
 tinued thereafter, to be members of the State Board of Educa- 
 tion, two of whom shall hold office for a term of four years, from 
 the first Monday in May next succeeding their appointment and 
 until their successors shall qualify ; the governor shall, at the 
 time of making said appointment, designate the term of years 
 of each of said members when first appointed under this article ; 
 the term of office of said members, after the expiration of the 
 term for which first appointed, shall be a term of six years, and 
 to take the places of the members of said board whose terms of 
 office shall so expire, the governor shall, every two years after 
 April 12, 1904, before the first Monday in May in such years, 
 appoint two persons as members of said board to serve for 
 terms of six years from the first Monday in May next succeed- 
 ing their appointment and until their successors shall qualify ; 
 said persons shall be of high character, integrity and capacity, 
 these six members, together with the governor and the State 
 
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 superintendent of public education, shall constitute the State 
 board of education, but principals of the State normal schools 
 and of the normal department of any school or college under 
 the control of the State board of education whose certificates are 
 recognized by it shall be e.v-officio honorary members of this 
 board, but with no vote. In case of a vacancy by death, resigna- 
 tion, disqualification or otherwise, the governor shall fill such 
 vacancies. 
 
 1906, ch. 353. 
 
 6. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the 
 senate, if in session, and without said advice and consent when 
 not in session, shall appoint a board of county school commis- 
 sioners for each county in this State, to be composed in the coun- 
 ties of Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Dorchester, Washington 
 and Montgomery of six persons, and in each of the other coun- 
 ties of three persons ; two of whom in the counties of Baltimore, 
 Carroll, Frederick, Dorchester, Washington and Montgomery, 
 and one of whom in each of the other counties shall hold their 
 office for the term of two years ; two of whom in the counties of 
 Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Dorchester, Washington and 
 Montgomery, and one of whom in each of the other counties 
 shall hold their office for the term of four years ; and two of 
 whom in the counties of Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Dorches- 
 ter, Washington and Montgomery, and one of whom in each of 
 the other counties shall hold their office for the term of six years 
 from the first Monday of May next succeeding their appoint- 
 ment and until their successors shall qualify. The governor 
 shall at the time of making said appointments designate the 
 term of years of each of the said commissioners when first ap- 
 pointed under this section ; provided, however, that all county 
 school commissioners heretofore appointed under this section, as 
 amended by Chapter 79 of the Acts of 1900, shall serve out the 
 terms for which they were respectively appointed and desig- 
 nated ; and provided, further, that at the time of making the ap- 
 pointment of the three additional school commissioners for 
 Montgomery county, as herein provided, the governor shall 
 designate the terms of years of each of the said additional com- 
 missioners. The term of office of the said commissioners, after 
 the expiration of the term for which first appointed, shall be a 
 
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 term of six years ; said persons shall be men of high character, 
 integrity and capacity. Two of said appointees for the counties 
 of Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Dorchester, Washington and 
 Montgomery and one of said appointees for each of the other 
 counties shall be selected and appointed by the governor from 
 the political party which at the last preceding election for gov- 
 ernor cast next to the highest number of votes in the State, so 
 that said minority party shall always have a proper representa- 
 tion upon each of said boards. The governor may remove for 
 incompetency, neglect of duty or misconduct any person so ap- 
 pointed by him as commissioner of public schools after giving 
 due notice to such person of the charges made against him and 
 a reasonable opportunity to be heard in his own defense. In 
 case of vacancy by death, removal from the county, removal 
 from office by the governor, resignation or disqualification from 
 any cause, the governor shall fill such vacancy with an appointee 
 from the same political party as that of the person whose posi- 
 tion shall have become vacated. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 7. The board of district school trustees shall be composed of 
 three persons, residents of the school district and county where 
 said school may be located, who shall be appointed by the county 
 school commissioners on the first day of May, or at their first 
 meeting thereafter, which must be held during the month of 
 May in each year, and who shall meet within thi.rty days after 
 their appointment and enter upon the duties assigned them in 
 chapter 5 of this article ; at their first meeting they shall appoint 
 a chairman and shall give notice of their appointment to the 
 secretary of the board -of county school commissioners; when 
 the trustees appoint a principal teacher, and the appointment 
 shall be confirmed by the board of county school commissioners, 
 the said principal teacher shall be ex-officio secretary to the board 
 of district trustees; district school trustees shall take and sub- 
 scribe the oath or affirmation of office prescribed by the con- 
 stitution before the county school commissioners, county super- 
 intendent, clerk to said county school board, or any other officer 
 duly authorized to administer oaths. 
 
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 CHAPTER 3 State Board of Education. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 8. The State board of education shall hold regular meetings 
 on the last Wednesday in May, August, November and Febru- 
 ary of every year, and special meetings as occasion may require. 
 
 Duer vs. Dashiell, 91 Md., 669, 688. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 9. The office of the State board of education shall be in 
 Annapolis. 
 
 1906, ch. 356. 
 
 10. The members of the board shall receive no salary, but 
 their actual expenses incurred in attending the meetings and 
 transacting the business of the board shall be paid, and they 
 are authorized to employ clerical assistance when necessary, and 
 the treasurer of the State, upon the warrant of the comptroller, 
 is hereby directed to pay to the president of the board, from the 
 general funds for public schools, for the purpose of meeting such 
 expenses, the sum of three thousand dollars ($3000) per annum, 
 in quarterly installments. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 11. The State board of education shall, to the best of their 
 ability, cause the provisions of this article to be carried into 
 effect, and may, if necessary, institute legal proceedings for that 
 purpose with the direction and advice of the attorney-general ; 
 they shall enact by-laws for the administration of the public 
 school system not at variance with this article, which when 
 enacted and published shall have the force of law; they shall 
 have the power to remove or suspend any county superintendent 
 who may be found inefficient or incompetent for the discharge 
 of duties assigned him, or guilty of such moral delinquency as 
 unfits him for the office he holds ; they shall explain the true 
 intent and meaning of the law, and they shall decide, without 
 expense to the parties concerned, all controversies and disputes 
 that arise under it, and their decision shall be final. 
 
 School Board vs. Wagaman, 84 Md., 162. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 12. They shall have the general care and supervision of the 
 public school interests of the State ; shall act as assistants and 
 
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 advisers of the various county boards ; and shall, from time to 
 time, issue circular letters to teachers and commissioners on 
 topics connected with the administration of public schools. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 13. In order to insure uniformity in the statistical reports of 
 the public schools, they shall issue a uniform series of blanks 
 for the use of teachers and of county boards, and shall require 
 all accounts to be kept and returns to be made according to 
 these forms. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 14. They shall, when requested by the board of county school 
 commissioners, examine candidates for the office of county super- 
 intendent, and give a certificate of qualification. 
 
 1872, ch. 377 
 
 15. They may grant to teachers of long experience and estab- 
 lished reputation professional certificates, which shall be valid 
 until revoked for cause. 
 
 1914, ch. 592 
 
 15^2. The State Board of Education shall within one year 
 after the passage of this Act prescribed minimum requirements 
 for the issuing of the various academic, collegiate, professional, 
 or university degrees which it is the custom for the educational 
 institutions within the United States to issue and said Board 
 shall have authority to modify said requirements from time to 
 time as generally accepted standards may change, provided no 
 educational institution shall be required to comply with stand- 
 ards fixed by the State Board of Education for the issuing of 
 degrees until one year after the publication of said standards by 
 said State Board. No public or private educational institution 
 shall issue any academic, collegiate, professional or university 
 degree without first having obtained the assent of the State 
 Board of Education of Maryland and the approval by said Board 
 of the conditions of scholarship, study and residence upon which 
 said degrees are issued. 
 
 1912, ch. 169. 
 
 ISA. The State board of education 'may, in its discretion, 
 prepare and publish annually a list of approved colleges and 
 universities and determine, by by-laws, the standards for said 
 approval. 
 
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 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 16. The members of the State board of education shall l>e 
 ex-officio trustees of the State normal schools. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 17. All schools and colleges and all normal school depart- 
 ments receiving State donations shall make a report on or before 
 the fifteenth day of September in each year of such matters and 
 in such form as the State board of education shall require ; and 
 said reports, or an abstract therefrom, shall be published by the 
 president of the board in his annual report. 
 
 Duer vs. Dashiell, 91 Md., 669, 648. 
 
 Superintendent of Public Education. 
 
 1902, ch. 466. 
 
 18. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the 
 senate, shall appoint a competent person as superintendent of 
 public education for the State of Maryland, who shall serve for 
 a term of four years, beginning on the first Monday in May 
 ensuing his appointment, and until his successor has been ap- 
 pointed and qualified according to law; and said person as super- 
 intendent of public education shall be ex officio a member of the 
 State board of education ; provided, that the governor at any 
 time may remove such person from office for misconduct or in- 
 efficiency, upon submitting his reasons for such removal in 
 writing to such person ; and provided, further, that such removal 
 be approved and ratified by two-thirds of the members of the 
 State board of education. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 19. The superintendent of public education shall receive a 
 salary from said appropriations for public schools, the amount of 
 which salary shall be fixed by the State board of education, pro- 
 vided it shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars per 
 annum, in addition to an allowance of five hundred dollars per 
 annum for traveling expenses; the said superintendent of public 
 education shall receive annually the sum of one thousand dollars, 
 or so much thereof as may be needed, for the purchase of sta- 
 tionery, office fixtures and supplies ; and he shall cause to be 
 printed and distributed to the public school teachers of the coun- 
 ties of the State each year a pamphlet for the proper observance 
 
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 of Arbor day, a teacher's manual of institute work, the proceed- 
 ings of the Maryland State Teachers' Association, and such 
 other circulars and printed matter as will encourage the work 
 of public instruction and promote its uniformity; provided, all 
 bills for such expenditures shall be approved by the State board 
 of education: and said superintendent shall appoint a clerk, who 
 shall also act as clerk to the State board of education, and who 
 shall be paid a salary from the appropriations for public schools, 
 the amount of which salary shall be fixed by the State board of 
 education; provided, that it shall not exceed the sum of twelve 
 hundred dollars; provided, further, that the office of said board 
 shall be the office of said superintendent; and provided, that the 
 clerk to the said superintendent of education shall not be em- 
 ployed as teacher or otherwise in any capacity in any of the 
 public or normal schools of this State. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 20. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of public educa- 
 tion to inform himself and the State board of education as to 
 the condition of the public schools throughout the State; to 
 diffuse information as to the best methods of instruction; to 
 receive and present to the State board of education the reports of 
 the various boards of county school commissioners ; to examine 
 said county boards' statement of expenditures of school funds, 
 and submit his judgment on the same to the State board of edu- 
 cation ; to have authority to endorse such normal school diplomas 
 from other States as he may deem proper, and when so endorsed, 
 they shall be legal certificates to teach in any elementary public 
 school in the State until revoked ; to arrange dates for teachers' 
 institutes, and assist the county superintendent in the prepara- 
 tion of the program of the county teachers' institute, and also 
 attend same when in session, when possible, and give instruc- 
 tion; he shall devote his whole time to the duties of his office, 
 and in every way conserve the interests and promote the 
 efficiency of the public schools of the State ; the State super- 
 intendent shall also be the secretary of the State board of educa- 
 tion. 
 
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 1908, ch. 494. 
 
 21. The State superintendent of public education, subject to 
 confirmation by the State board of education, shall on or before 
 the thirty-first day of July in each year appoint a competent per- 
 son to be known as assistant superintendent of public education, 
 who shall serve for one year, unless removed as hereinafter pro- 
 vided, and who shall receive a salary of $2000 per annum, to be 
 paid from the appropriation for public schools,, and shall receive 
 no additional pay for any services said board may require ; the 
 said assistant so appointed shall act for and in the name of the 
 superintendent in such branches of his office and field work as 
 shall or may, in the discretion of said superintendent, be com- 
 mitted to him ; and faithfully and efficiently perform such duties 
 as may be required of him by either the superintendent or the 
 State board of education; and the said assistant superintendent 
 shall be subject to removal by the superintendent, with the ap- 
 proval of the State board of education, at any time for ineffi- 
 ciency or misconduct in office ; provided, however, that the rea- 
 son for such dismissal must be submitted to him in writing. 
 
 CHAPTER 4 County School Commissioners. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 22. The board of county school commissioners shall meet for 
 organization on the first Tuesday in May next succeeding their 
 appointment, or as soon thereafter as may be, and elect a person, 
 not a member of the board, who shall serve as secretary and 
 treasurer of the board of county school commissioners and 
 . county school superintendent of public education, and notice of 
 ' such election, signed by the president of the board, shall be 
 transmitted to the comptroller; the person thus elected as sec- 
 retary, treasurer and county superintendent shall enter upon his 
 duties the first day of August next ensuing after his election ; 
 in counties having more than eighty-five schools the board may, 
 at their discretion, appoint a clerk and fix his salary ; the board 
 shall meet at least once in every school term, and at other times, 
 if necessary, for the transaction of business ; each commissioner 
 
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 shall receive as an annual salary the sum of one hundred dollars, 
 and he shall make no further charge or charges for any services 
 rendered. 
 
 Co. Commrs. vs. School Commrs., 77 Md., 288. 
 Duer vs. Dashiell, 91 Md., 669. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 23. The board of county school commissioners are hereby de- 
 clared to be a body politic and corporate by the name and style 
 of the board of county school commissioners of - - county, 
 and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be 
 capable to sue and be sued, to use and have a common seal, and 
 the same at their pleasure to alter or break, and to exercise all 
 the powers and privileges hereby granted to or vested in them ; 
 and every county superintendent or assistant county superin- 
 tendent shall have power to take affidavits and administer oaths 
 in all matters pertaining to public schools, but without charge of 
 fee. 
 
 1872, ch. 327. 
 
 24. All the property, estate, effects, money, funds, claims and 
 State donations, heretofore vested by law in the public school 
 authorities of any county, for the use and benefit of public, 
 primary, free or high schools, are transferred to and vested in 
 the board of county school commissioners and their successors 
 in office. 
 
 1914, ch. 480 
 
 25. The Board of County School Commissioners shall have 
 the general supervision and control of all the schools in their 
 respective Counties ; they shall build, repair and furnish school 
 houses ; they shall purchase and distribute text-books ; they shall 
 after advising with the principal of the school to which the 
 teacher is to be appointed, appoint all assistant teachers ; they / 
 shall have authority to consolidate schools when in their judg- I 
 ment consolidation is practicable or desirable, provided that in 
 the case of a school, the yearly average of which is twelve pupils 
 or more, the Board of County School Commissioners shall obtain 
 the consent of sixty per cent, of the patrons of the school the 
 school house of which is to be closed in order that it may be con- 
 solidated with another school, and to arrange for and to pay 
 charges of transporting pupils to and from such schools and have 
 power to close any or all schools in any school district of the 
 
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 county when they deem it best so to do, except in the case of a 
 school the yearly average of which is twelve pupils or more, the 
 Board of County School Commissioners shall obtain the consent 
 of sixty per cent, of its patrons and shall perform such other 
 duties as may be necessary to secure an efficient administration 
 of the public school system, subject to the provisions of this 
 Article. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 26. The State school tax and free school fund are primarily 
 intended, under this article, to pay the salaries of the teachers 
 of the several counties and to provide school books and sta- 
 tionery for the children of the State ; if, however, in apportioning 
 the said school tax among the different counties and the city of 
 Baltimore, the share of any county should prove inadequate for 
 the purposes aforesaid, then the county commissioners of such 
 county are hereby authorized, empowered, directed and required 
 to levy and collect such a tax upon the assessable property of 
 such county as the board of county school commissioners shall 
 designate as sufficient to make good the deficiency ; provided, 
 that said tax shall not exceed fifteen cents on the hundred dol- 
 lars, unless the county commissioners shall approve and sanc- 
 tion an additional tax; taxes so levied and collected shall be 
 paid quarterly, on the day fixed for payment of the said school 
 tax to the several counties (but the proceeds from special taxes 
 may be paid oftener, upon the order of the board of county 
 school commissioners to the treasurer of the said board of 
 county school commissioners), in order that the schools of said 
 counties may be kept open for the time herein set forth, and 
 said tax shall be levied and collected as other taxes ; any sums of 
 money which may have been specially collected or levied on any 
 election or schoolhouse district for educational purposes con- 
 nected with these districts shall be collected for and applied 
 to the purposes so intended originally, and shall be used for no 
 other purposes ; and if said funds have been used otherwise they 
 shall be returned and applied as aforesaid. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 27. In all cases where the county has not been properly divided 
 into school districts, and full records of the boundaries thereof 
 have not been made and recorded, the board of county school 
 
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 commissioners shall appoint a committee if, in their opinion, 
 they deem it necessary, consisting of three persons of intelligence 
 and sound judgment, who shall divide the county into suitable 
 school districts, define and describe the boundaries of each ; 
 provided, that no school district shall contain a greater area 
 than four miles square, unless a part of it be located in a thinly 
 settled region. In the formation of the school districts the com- 
 mittee shall take into consideration the most suitable site for 
 the schoolhouse, the general features of the country, and shall 
 make each school district of such a size and form as will best 
 accommodate the population within its bounds. The commit- 
 tee shall make an accurate description of the bounds of the 
 school districts, accompanied by a plat, and shall report the same 
 to the board of county school commissioners, who shall there- 
 upon give notice in all the newspapers of the county at what 
 time they will meet to hear applications for a change of boun- 
 daries, which applications shall be made in writing and within 
 two months from the date of the first publication of such notice. 
 .When the applications shall have been made and considered, the 
 board of county school commissioners may then change the 
 boundaries of school districts and revise the description ; or they 
 may, without application, make such changes as may be deemed 
 important, or they may ratify and confirm the report of the com- 
 mittee. The description of the boundaries of school districts 
 shall be recorded in a book, kept for that purpose, by the secre- 
 tary of the board of county school commissioners. In those 
 counties where no newspaper is published the notice of applica- 
 tion for a change of boundaries shall be published in such a 
 manner as the board of county school commissioners may decide. 
 Whenever it may be necessary, the board of county school com- 
 missioners shall employ a surveyor to aid the committee in the 
 performance of such duty, and they shall allow the surveyor 
 such compensation for his services as may be just and proper, 
 and the committee shall receive no compensation whatever for 
 their services. The cost of dividing the county shall be paid by 
 the county school commissioners out of the school fund of the 
 county. If a county has already been divided into school dis- 
 tricts, and it may be necessary to revise the same, the board of 
 county school commissioners shall have full power to make such 
 
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 revision or alterations as may be necessary to accommodate the 
 population and increase the efficiency of the schools. A full de- 
 scription of such changes and alterations shall also be made and 
 recorded as aforesaid. 
 
 1912, ch. 333. 
 
 28. The board of school commissioners of Baltimore city and 
 the boards of county school commissioners of the several coun- 
 ties shall, on or before the first day of September in each and 
 every year, make a report to the State board of education in such 
 form as may be prescribed by the latter, of the schools and all 
 matters affecting the educational interest of the respective coun- 
 ties and Baltimore city ; they shall also publish annually, in such 
 form and manner as they may deem proper, a statement of their 
 receipts and disbursements, including the money received and 
 expended on account of text-books, and a statement of the in- 
 debtedness of the board at the close of the fiscal year, and the 
 items of expense of the individual schools, and forward a copy of 
 same to the State board of education. 
 
 1898, ch. 445. 
 
 29. In case of the death of any county school commissioner, or 
 his resignation or removal from the county, or disqualification 
 from any legal cause, during the recess of the General Assembly, 
 the governor shall have power to appoint a qualified person to 
 fill the vacancy for the unexpired term ; in case of inefficiency, 
 refusal to act, or breach of trust, the board may, by vote of a 
 majority of its members, declare the office vacant and give notice 
 to the party concerned. An appeal may be taken to the State 
 board of education, whose decision shall be final, but if no appeal 
 be taken within ten days the vacancy shall be filled as herein- 
 before provided. 
 
 Ash vs. McVey, 85 Md., 126. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 30. No teacher in actual emplyoment as such shall fill the 
 position of county school commissioner. 
 
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 CHAPTER 5 District School Trustees. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 31. The board of district school trustees shall have the care 
 of houses and lands connected therewith intended for school 
 purposes ; also furniture, apparatus and other school property ; 
 they shall attend to all repairs and charge the cost among the 
 incidental expenses of the school, to be paid out of the tax 
 levied upon the assessable property of the county as herein pro- 
 vided for; provided, that when repairs are to be paid out of 
 county school taxes, the amount to be expended for said school 
 repairs shall be determined by the board of county school com- 
 missioners before the repairs are made ; the board shall employ 
 a principal teacher, subject to confirmation by the board of 
 county school commissioners, from among those persons who 
 hold the certificate required by this article; they shall exercise 
 a general supervision over their respective schools, and visit 
 them frequently, and shall cause instruction to be given for ten 
 months in the year, if possible. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 32. The board of district school trustees shall see that every 
 schoolhouse site is provided with suitable outbuildings. 
 
 1894, ch. 524, sees. 1 and 2. 
 
 33. Board of school commissioners in every city and county 
 of the State shall provide suitable and convenient water closets 
 or outhouses for each of the schools under their official juris- 
 diction, not less than two for each school or building, when 
 both sexes are in attendance, in their respective school districts, 
 with separate means of access for each ; and unless placed at a 
 remote distance, one from the other, the approaches or walks 
 thereto shall be separated by a substantial close fence, not less 
 than seven feet high ; and it shall be the duty of the said commis- 
 sioners to make provisions for keeping the said water closets or 
 outhouses in clean, comfortable and healthful condition. Any 
 failure on the part of said public school commissioners to com- 
 ply with the provisions of this section shall make them liable 
 to be removed from office by any court of competent jurisdiction, 
 either in the city of Baltimore or in any county where the 
 
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 schools may be located, upon complaint made to the court, un- 
 der oath or affirmation of not less than five taxable citizens 
 residents in the said school district in which the school com- 
 plained of is located; provided, nothing in this section shall 
 affect the counties of Caroline, Kent, Dorchester, Somerset, Bal- 
 timore, Worcester, Howard, Prince George's and Frederick. 
 
 1914, ch. 461 
 
 34. No school house shall be used for any other purpose 
 than public school purposes and school district meetings unless 
 by consent of the Board of County School Commissioners, or a 
 majority of them, provided, however, whenever an application 
 is made to the trustees of a school, or to the School Board, or 
 other body having charge of school houses, signed by twenty-five 
 citizens in the school district where the said school is situated, 
 requesting the use of the school building for a non-partisan gath- 
 ering of citizens for the presentation and discussion of public 
 questions, or for other civic, social or recreational activities the 
 said school authorities shall allow the free use of such school 
 building or grounds of same for the purpose enumerated above ; 
 provided, however, said meetings shall be held during such hours 
 as the school buildings are not being used for their prime pur- 
 pose. 
 
 34-A. When the citizens of any community are organized 
 into a non-partisan, non-sectarian, non-exclusive association for 
 the presentation and discussion of public questions, such organ- 
 ization, upon request to the trustees of any school, or to the 
 School Board, or other body having charge of school houses, may 
 in the discretion of the said authorities, have the free use of any 
 school building in this State, for weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly 
 gatherings, or at such times as the citizens' organization shall re- 
 quest or designate ; provided, however, said meetings shall be 
 held during such hours as the school buildings are not being used 
 for their prime purpose. 
 
 34-B. The trustees of schools, the School Board, or other 
 board having charge of school houses, may provide for the free 
 and gratuitous use of school houses for such other civic, social 
 and recreational activities, as in their opinion do not interfere 
 with the prime use of the said school buildings or properties. 
 
20 PUBLIC SCHOOL LAWS 
 
 34-C. The person or persons making application for the 
 use of a school house for a public meeting, shall be responsible 
 for all damage to the property occurring at such meeting, ordi- 
 nary wear and tear excepted, and upon failure of the person or 
 persons to respond in damages for any such injury to the prop- 
 erty, the School Board or other board in charge of the school 
 house, may refuse all future applications for the wider use of 
 the property until such injury is repaired, without expense to the 
 board in charge of the property. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the person or persons making applica- 
 tion for the use of a school house for a public meeting place, t& 
 place the said school house after said meeting in as clean a con- 
 dition as it was before said meeting, and any failure upon the part 
 of said person or persons to whom permission has been granted 
 to hold a meeting to place said school house after said meeting in 
 as clean a condition as it was when said school house was turned 
 over to said person or persons for said meeting will warrant said 
 school authorities in refusing to allow any further use of said 
 school house to the same parties. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 35. Contiguous portions of two or more schoolhouse dis- 
 tricts may, with the consent of the board of county school 
 commissioners, combine and form a new schoolhouse district; 
 and when thus formed the said new schoolhouse district shall 
 be invested with all the rights and powers hereinbefore set forth 
 as pertaining to such districts ; provided, that the new school- 
 house district thus formed, or said district from which it may 
 be formed, shall not contain less than thirty-five legal resident 
 voters. 
 
 1874, ch. 463. 
 
 36. In case of neglect of duty, or refusal to act, on the part 
 of the members of the board of trustees, their places shall be 
 declared vacant by the board of county school commissioners, 
 who shall fill the same by new appointment, but if it be found 
 impossible to secure competent persons who will act in this 
 capacity, then the duties of the board of district school trus- 
 tees for the particular district shall devolve upon the board of 
 county school commissioners. 
 
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 CHAPTER 6 Schoolhouses and Sites. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 37. It shall be the duty of the board of county school com- 
 missioners to select a suitable schoolhouse site in each district 
 whenever the necessities of the public school demand a change 
 of site or sites already built upon, or a new schoolhouse site 
 to be built. 
 
 1874, ch. 463. 
 
 38. The board of county school commissioners may receive 
 donations for such sites or locations for schoolhouses, or of a 
 house already built adapted to school purposes, or suitably lo- 
 cated, or may purchase the same ; but in no case shall any site 
 be built upon or any house be occupied until a good and suffi- 
 cient title shall have been obtained for the same in the corporate 
 name of the board of county school commissioners. In cases, 
 however, where the property owned by the board of county 
 school commissioners in any school district proves unsuited for 
 school purposes, the board is authorized to sell or lease the 
 same, and to appropriate the amount obtained by such sale or 
 lease to the purchase or lease of a proper schoolhouse at a suit- 
 able location for the said district. 
 
 1912, ch. 532. 
 
 39. When the lands shall be required for the site of a school- 
 house, or for enlarging a schoolhouse lot, or for play grounds 
 or other school purposes, and the board of county school com- 
 missioners shall for any cause be unable to contract with the 
 owner or owners thereof upon what it deems to be a fair valua- 
 tion thereof, the board of county school commissioners may ap- 
 ply for a writ of ad quod damnwn to the clerk of the circuit court 
 for the county, who shall forthwith issue the same and the 
 sheriff shall execute the said writ and return an inquisition de- 
 scribing the land and stating the amount of damages to be paid 
 to the owner; and the judge of the circuit court for the county 
 may at any time after the return of the inquisition, in term 
 or during recess, hear a motion to confirm such inquisition, on 
 such notice to the parties as he may direct, and confirm or quash 
 the same; and if he quashes the inquisition, he shall order a 
 new one forthwith to be taken ; but no lot so taken or enlarged 
 
22 PUBUC SCHOOL LAWS 
 
 shall exceed, in the whole, five acres, including the land occupied 
 by the school building; provided, that the repeal and re-enact- 
 ment of this section shall in no wise affect any proceedings be- 
 gun and pending at the date of its passage, but any such pro- 
 ceeding shall be controlled by the law as it existed at the time 
 of the institution thereof. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 40. In all cases when schoolhouse sites are thus purchased 
 or condemned the cost thereof shall be paid as other schoolhouse 
 property is paid for. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 41. Every schoolhouse shall be built and furnished according 
 to plans and drawings issued from the office of the county 
 school commissioners. 
 
 CHAPTER 7 Schools. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 42. The schools under the charge of the board of county 
 school commissioners for each county shall respectively be 
 designated school No. 1, 2; 3, and so forth, of their respective 
 election districts. 
 
 1914, ch. 480 
 
 43. In every school house district in each county, established 
 as hereinbefore provided there shall be kept for ten months in each 
 year if possible one or more schools, according to population 
 which shall be free to all white youths over six and under twenty- 
 one years of age; provided the Board of County School Com- 
 missioners in each county may close all schools in any school 
 district when they deem it best so to do, except such schools as 
 are exempt from consolidation and closing under Section 25. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 44. In every district school there shall be taught orthog* 
 raphy, reading, writing, subjects for language training, English 
 grammar, geography, arithmetic, history of the United States, 
 good behavior, the constitution of the United States, consti- 
 tution and history of Maryland, vocal music, drawing, physiol- 
 ogy, laws of health and domestic economy, civil government; 
 and the elements of agricultural science may, in the discretion 
 
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 of the State board of education, be added to the branches re- 
 quired to be taught in the State normal school and in the pub- 
 lic schools of the various counties of the State. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 45. The nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, with special 
 instruction as to their effects upon the human system, in con- 
 nection with the several divisions of the subjects of physiology 
 and hygiene, shall be included in the branches of study taught 
 in the common schools, and shall be taught to and studied by 
 all pupils whose capacity will admit of it, in all departments of 
 the public schools of the State, and in all educational institu- 
 tions supported wholly or in part by money from the State; 
 and said study shall be taught to and studied by pupils in said 
 schools as thoroughly and in the same manner as other like 
 branches are there taught and studied, with text-books in hands 
 of pupils, where other like branches are thus studied. 
 
 1886, ch. 495. 
 
 46. It shall be the duty of boards of county school commis- 
 sioners, and of the board of commissioners of public schools 
 of Baltimore city, county superintendents, superintendents of 
 public schools of Baltimore city, and boards of all educational 
 institutions receiving aid from the State to enforce the pro- 
 visions of the preceding section. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 47. Whenever a school numbers more than forty children 
 in the average attendance, an assistant may be employed by 
 the board of county school commissioners, in their discretion; 
 and for every additional forty children, one teacher may be ap- 
 pointed. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 48. Whenever the average attendance in any school for any 
 two consecutive terms is less than ten pupils, the said school 
 may be closed by the board of county school commissioners; 
 provided, that the board of district school trustees may keep 
 the school open in part at the expense of the district, and shall 
 receive their proportion of the school fund for said school, 
 rating a full school at twenty scholars. 
 
24 PUBLIC SCHOOL LAWS 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 49. Public examinations shall be held in each school twice 
 a year, of which due notice shall be given, that parents and 
 others interested in education may attend. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 50. Schools shall be kept open each week day, except Satur- 
 day, for six hours ; and the hours for teaching shall be regu- 
 lated by the several boards of county school commissioners. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 51. Any person who shall disturb any public school in ses- 
 sion shall, upon conviction thereof before a justice of the peace, 
 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall forfeit and pay 
 twenty dollars, to be collected as other fines, to be paid to the 
 board of district school trustees for the benefit of the school-- 
 house district ; or said offender shall be imprisoned not exceed- 
 ing thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the justice of the 
 peace. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 52. The school year shall be divided into four terms, which 
 shall be designated fall term, winter term, spring term and sum- 
 mer term; and the time of beginning and closing each term 
 shall be regulated by the board of county school commission- 
 ers; provided, that the financial reports of the schools of the 
 State shall be made up and rendered to the thirty-first day of 
 July, inclusive, of each and every year; and provided, further, 
 that there be no change in or encroachment upon the holidays 
 and vacations set forth and established in the following para- 
 graph : 
 
 The months of July and August shall be vacation through- 
 out the whole State, and the following days shall be holidays, 
 viz. : Thanksgiving Day, from Christmas Eve to the first day of 
 January, inclusive, and from the Friday before Easter to the 
 Monday after Easter, inclusive; on Washington's birthday the 
 schools shall devote a portion of the day to exercises bearing 
 on the life and services of "The Father of Our Country" ; Mary- 
 land Day shall be observed at such a time and in such manner 
 as the State board of education may direct. 
 
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 In case it may be necessary to open school for a fraction o! 
 a term, it shall close at the end of the term, and all accounts 
 shall be settled at the meeting of the board of county school 
 commissioners held at the end of the term. 
 
 CHAPTER 8 Teachers. 
 
 1914, ch. 85. 
 
 53. No person shall be employed as a teacher under this Arti- 
 cle unless such person shall hold a certificate of qualification (a) 
 issued by the superintendent of the County in which he or she 
 proposes to teach ; (b) a diploma of a State Normal School of 
 Maryland, or of the normal department of Washington College; 
 (c) a diploma of a standard normal school of another State, which 
 has been endorsed by the State Superintendent of Public Educa- 
 tion ; (d) a diploma of a reputable college or university maintain- 
 ing a department of pedagogy or education, which has been ap- 
 proved by the State Superintendent of Public Education of Mary- 
 land; (e) in the case of high school teachers, the diploma of a 
 standard college, the work of which included instruction in 
 pedagogy satisfactory to the State Superintendent of Public Edu- 
 cation; or (f) a certificate from the State Board of Education as 
 herein provided, and after June 1, 1915, no person who has not 
 been previously regularly employed as a teacher shall be ap- 
 pointed a teacher without having had special pedagogic training 
 of at least five weeks in an approved summer school, or its 
 equivalent. 
 
 School Board vs. Wagaman, 84 Md., 161. 
 
 1908, ch. 635. 
 
 54. Any graduate of the department of pedagogy of any 
 reputable college or university maintaining a department of 
 pedagogy, that has been approved by the State board of educa- 
 tion of Maryland, shall be entitled to teach in the public elemen- 
 tary or high schools of the State of Maryland without exami- 
 nation. The diploma of said graduate shall be rated as a first 
 grade teacher's certificate and be subject to classification by 
 the county superintendent of the county in which said graduate 
 may be employed to teach. 
 
26 PUBUC SCHOOL LAWS 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 55. Principal teachers shall be appointed by the board of dis- 
 trict school trustees, subject to 'confirmation by the board of 
 county school commissioners ; and said teachers may be re- 
 moved at any time said board of district school trustees may 
 think proper, after thirty days' notice in writing; provided, fur- 
 ther, that the said board of district school trustees shall furnish, 
 in writing, when required by the teacher so notified, the reasons 
 for dismissal; provided, further, that the right of appeal shall 
 lie to the board of county school commissioners, whose action 
 in confirming or rejecting the action of the district trustees 
 shall be final. 
 
 1874, ch. 463. 
 
 56. Teachers shall enter into their quarterly reports an ac- 
 curate account of the attendance of pupils, of text-books used 
 and branches taught, and such other statistics as may be re- 
 quired, and make due returns thereof to the board of county 
 school commissioners at the end of each term; and no teacher 
 shall be entitled to receive payment for services until the quar- 
 terly report, properly filled up and completed, shall be so re- 
 turned. The quarterly reports shall be filed by the board of 
 county school commissioners for the purpose of making the 
 annual returns to the State board of education. 
 
 School Com. vs. Adams, 43 Md., 349. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 57. The board of county school commissioners shall ex- 
 amine any charge preferred against the moral character of any 
 teacher within their county; they shall give the teacher reason- 
 able notice of the charge in writing, and an opportunity to de- 
 fend himself; and if the charge be sustained, they shall annul 
 the teacher's certificate, and shall give notice thereof to the 
 State board of education; provided, that an appeal shall lie to 
 the State board of education, whose decision shall be final. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 58. Any person holding a first-class teacher's certificate, or 
 diploma of a reputable college, or of a State normal school, who 
 has been a teacher for seven years, of which five years shall 
 have been spent in the State of Maryland, may apply to the 
 
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 State board of education for a life certificate, which, if granted, 
 shall exempt him or her from any further examinations; said 
 certificate may be annulled by said board at any time on ac- 
 count of immoral or unprofessional conduct. 
 
 1912, ch. 138. 
 
 59. The salaries of the teachers of each county shall be fixed 
 by the board of county school commissioners subject to the pro- 
 visions of any public local law or public general law now in 
 force or hereafter to be passed; provided, that no white teacher 
 regularly employed in a public school of the State of Maryland, 
 having an average attendance of ten or more pupils, shall receive 
 a salary less than three hundred dollars per school year; pro- 
 vided, Garrett county shall be exempted from the provisions of 
 
 thls act 1910, ch. 420. 
 
 60. All white teachers regularly employed, holding a first- 
 class teacher's certificate and having taught for a period of three 
 years in any of the public schools of the State of Maryland, shall 
 receive as salary not less than three hundred and fifty dollars 
 ($350) per annum ; and provided, further, that if such teacher 
 hold a first-class teacher's certificate and has taught in the public 
 schools of Maryland for a period of five years, he or she shall 
 receive an annual salary of not less than four hundred dollars 
 ($400) ; and provided, further, that if a teacher holds a first- 
 class teacher's certificate and has taught in the public schools 
 of Maryland for a period of eight years, he or she shall receive 
 as an annual salary not less than four hundred and fifty dollars 
 $450) ; and provided, further, that if a teacher holds a second- 
 class teacher's certificate and has taught in the public schools 
 of the State of Maryland for a period of eight years, he or she 
 shall receive as an annual salary not less than three hundred 
 and fifty dollars ($350). The county commissioners of each 
 county shall levy a sufficient amount to meet the increase of 
 salaries provided for in this act. 
 
 1914, ch. 159. 
 
 60-A. Any white teacher regularly employed as a teacher in 
 the public schools of Maryland, holding a diploma of a standard 
 normal school or a diploma of the department of pedagogy or 
 education of a standard college or university which has. the ap- 
 proval of the State Superintendent of Education, or who shall 
 
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 have gained sufficient credits from summer school or special 
 training courses as may satisfy the State Department of Educa- 
 tion that said credits are equivalent to graduation from a normal 
 school, and that the instruction of such teacher is equal in value 
 and efficiency to that of a graduate of a normal school and so 
 certified by the State Department of Education to the Board of 
 County School Commissioners of the County where such person 
 is employed as teacher shall receive as a salary not less than 
 four hundred dollars ($400) per annum ; and after having taught 
 for a period of three years in any of the public schools of the 
 State of Maryland shall receive as salary not less than four hun- 
 dred and fifty dollars ($450) per annum ; if such teacher has 
 taught as above for a period of five years, he or she shall re- 
 ceive as salary not less than five hundred dollars ($500) per 
 annum ; if such teacher has taught as above for a period of eight 
 years, he or she shall receive as salary not less than five hundred 
 and fifty dollars ($550)^ per annum, provided this section shall 
 apply only to teachers whose diplomas or certificates are rated 
 as first class by the county superintendent of the county in which 
 the teacher is employed. The County Commissioners of each 
 County shall levy sufficient funds to meet the increase of salaries 
 provided for in this Section. 
 
 1910, ch. 420. 
 
 61. On or before the first day of October of each year the 
 county superintendent shall submit to the county school board 
 a lisc of all teachers employed, together with a classification 
 of their certificates. In determining the class of the certificates 
 the following points are to be considered : (a) scholarship ; (b) 
 executive ability ; (c) personality, and (d) teaching power. The 
 county superintendent may add such other requirements as may 
 be approved by the State board of education. 
 
 1914, ch. 736. 
 
 62. Whenever any person in this State has taught in any of 
 the public or normal schools thereof twenty-five years, and has 
 reached the age of sixty years, and his or her record as such 
 teacher has been without reproach, and by reason of physical or 
 mental Disability or infirmity is unable to teach longer, and who, 
 moreover, is without the means of comfortable support, the said 
 
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 teacher may lay his or her case before the State Board of Educa- 
 tion, supported in all cases by the recommendation of the Board 
 of County School Commissioners of the County in which said 
 teacher has last taught, and the said board shall proceed to con- 
 sider the same, and if the facts are found as above stated the said 
 teacher shall be placed on a list, a record of which shall be kept 
 by the said board, to be known as the "Teachers' Retired List," 
 and every person so placed on said retired list shall be entitled to 
 receive a pension from the State of two hundred dollars per 
 annum, to be paid quarterly by the Treasurer of the State Board 
 of Education, so long as such pensioner is without other means 
 of comfortable support, and the State Board of Education may in 
 extraordinary cases waive the age limit as herein provided, pro- 
 vided, however, the applicant has all the other qualifications as 
 provided herein. The Treasurer. of the State Board of Educa- 
 tion shall on or before the twentieth day of the month of Sep- 
 tember, December, March and June of each year, certify to the 
 Comptroller the sum of money necessary for the payment of said 
 pensions for the current quarter as provided by this Section, and 
 the Comptroller, shall, on or before the first day of the months of 
 October, January, April and July issue his warrant on the Treas- 
 urer of the State in favor of the Treasurer of the State Board of 
 Education for the amount so certified. That the sum of thirty- 
 four thausand dollars ($34,000), or so much thereof as may be 
 necessary, is hereby appropriated annually out of any moneys in the 
 Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry into -effect the pro- 
 visions of this Act. 
 
 CHAPTER 9 Pupils. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 63. All white youths between the ages of six and twenty- 
 one years shall be admitted into the public schools of the State, 
 the studies of which they may be able to pursue ; provided, that 
 whenever there are grade schools, the teachers and board of 
 district school trustees shall determine to which school pupils 
 shall be admitted. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 64. The board of district school trustees shall have power 
 to suspend and expel pupils for cause ; provided, that an appeal 
 shall lie to the board of county school commissioners, whose 
 decision shall be final. 
 
30 PUBLIC SCHOOL LAWS 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 65. Children living remote from the school of the district in 
 which they reside may attend school in an adjoining district, 
 with the consent of the boards of the respective school districts. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 66. Every child, before being admitted to any public school, 
 shall produce a certificate from a regular physician that he has 
 been properly vaccinated. 
 
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 CHAPTER 10 Text-Books. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 67. School books shall contain nothing of a sectarian or par- 
 tisan character. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 68. The board of public school commissioners of Baltimore 
 city and each board of county school commissioners shall adopt 
 and purchase text-books for use in the public schools of said 
 city and of the several counties of the State, as such new text- 
 books are required, and when so purchased the necessary text- 
 books shall be furnished free of cost for use in the public schools 
 of the State, subject to the order of said boards; but said boards 
 shall have the right at any time to change any series of text- 
 books already in use or hereafter adopted; provided, that text- 
 books shall be furnished under the provisions of this article to 
 the several grades in the public schools successively, beginning 
 with the first grade ; and provided, that the said board shall not 
 be required to expend during any school year for said text-books 
 more than the several amounts of money received by said boards 
 respectively under the provisions of this article; and provided, 
 that indigent pupils of all grades shall receive text-books free of 
 cost, as provided under provisions of existing laws ; and pro- 
 vided, the said respective boards shall adopt means for the pur- 
 chase of text-books by competitive bidding, and at the lowest 
 possible price; and provided, that parents or pupils may pur- 
 chase their own text-books where they may think proper; and 
 provided, further, that the several boards of county school com- 
 missioners shall furnish annually to the State board of educa- 
 
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 tion the title, the name of the publisher and the net price paid 
 for each text-book so purchased, which information shall be set 
 forth in full in the annual report made to the State board of 
 education. 
 
 School Commrs. vs. State Bd. Education, 26 Md., 513. 
 
 1896, ch. 135. 
 
 69. The said several boards shall authorize the delivery of 
 text-books to the various public schools under their supervision 
 respectively, and shall provide for the issuing, safe-keeping 
 care and return of the same under such rules and regulations as 
 they may severally adopt. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 70. The said several boards shall keep an account of all 
 moneys expended under the provisions of this act, and report 
 the same in the annual financial account, as required by law; and 
 no money so received by them shall ever be used for any other 
 purpose than for the purchase of school books, as provided by 
 the two preceding sections ; except in such counties where there 
 may remain a surplus after the purchase of necessary text-books, 
 the boards may expend such surplus amounts in the purchase 
 of maps of the State of Maryland and supplementary reading 
 books for pupils. 
 
 1908, ch. 635. 
 
 71. The sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is 
 hereby appropriated to be paid by the State treasurer upon the 
 warrant of the comptroller on the first day of October, 1908, 
 and annually thereafter, to be expended, or so much thereof as 
 may be necessary, for the purchase of text-books, as provided 
 in this article. The whole of said sum shall be apportioned 
 by the comptroller in the month of September of each and every 
 year, according to and based upon the total number of different 
 pupils enrolled, as disclosed by the statistics of the report of the 
 State board of education for the fiscal year ending July 31, 1907, 
 and every succeeding odd year, and he shall immediately there- 
 after notify the treasurer of the several boards of county school 
 commissioners of the counties and the city of Baltimore of the 
 amount thus found to be due to each, and the same shall be 
 paid to the treasurer of the board of school commissioners of 
 
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 Baltimore city and the several counties upon the draft of the 
 president and secretary of the several boards of county school 
 commissioners and the city of Baltimore aforesaid. 
 
 CHAPTER 11 County Superintendent. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 72. It shall be the duty of the county superintendent to ex- 
 amine candidates for the profession of teacher, in the presence 
 of at least one member of the board of county school commis- 
 sioners, or one or more of the district trustees, and to give to 
 such persons as are found qualified, under the sanction of the 
 board at its next meeting, a certificate setting forth the branches 
 such persons are competent to teach; but nq certificate shall 
 be granted without satisfactory evidence of the moral character 
 of the applicant. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 73. The certificate issued by each county superintendent 
 shall be numbered and registered in a book kept by the board 
 of county school commissioners, and be delivered to their suc- 
 cessors in office, and shall be denominated first or second grade, 
 as the case may be, and the State board of education shall keep 
 a book in the same manner as the county superintendent; cer- 
 tificates of the first grade shall embrace orthography, reading, 
 writing, arithmetic, geography, United States history, English 
 grammar, bookkeeping, algebra, natural philosophy, physiology, 
 plane geometry (four books), general history, national and 
 State constitutions, theory and practice of teaching, and the 
 laws and by-laws of the public school system of Maryland ; and 
 those of the second shall embrace orthography, reading, writing, 
 arithmetic, geography, United States history, English grammar, 
 history of Maryland, constitutions of United States and of Mary- 
 land, physiology, algebra (to quadratics), theory and practice 
 of teaching, the laws and by-laws of the public school system of 
 Maryland ; such a certificate held by a person who obtains a 
 school within six months from the time the certificate was 
 issued shall not continue in force longer than six months after 
 acceptance of the position of teacher, unless the persons hold- 
 ing the same shall satisfy the county superintendent of his or 
 
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 her fitness for governing a school, and his or her ability to im- 
 part instruction in the various branches taught in the public 
 schools ; but when the county superintendent shall satisfy him- 
 self upon these points, he shall be empowered to issue a cer- 
 tificate, which shall continue in force for five years, unless re- 
 voked for cause ; a person holding such certificate, who fails 
 to obtain a school within six months after issuance of same, 
 shall not be required to pass another examination in the same 
 county for fifteen months from date of granting the certificate. 
 
 1894, ch. 378. 
 
 74. No certificate of qualification as a teacher shall be issued 
 to any male under nineteen years of age, or to any female un- 
 der eighteen years of age. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 75. The county superintendent shall hold regular examina- 
 tions of teachers at such times as the board may direct, of which 
 due notice shall be given in the newspapers, or otherwise. No 
 superintendent shall be allowed to charge any fees for the 
 issuing of certificates to teachers; and if any superintendent 
 shall be found guilty of charging or receiving any fee or reward 
 directly or indirectly for issuing any certificate to a teacher, he 
 shall be dismissed from office. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 76. It shall be the duty of the county superintendent, or his 
 assistant, at least three times in each year, to visit the schools 
 in his county, if it contains sixty teachers or less, and twice a 
 year in counties having more than sixty and less than one hun- 
 dred and seventy-five teachers, and once a year in counties where 
 there are more than one hundred and seventy-five; he shall 
 observe the methods of the teachers and give him or her such 
 practical suggestions as circumstances may prompt; he shall, 
 whenever possible, attend public examinations and report quar- 
 terly in detail the result of his observation through the board of 
 county school commissioners. In counties where the number 
 of teachers shall exceed one hundred and seventy-five the board 
 of county school commissioners may, in their discretion, appoint 
 an assistant county superintendent. 
 
34 PUBLIC SCHOOL LAWS 
 
 1910, ch. 147. 
 
 77. The board of county school commissioners of any county 
 may, in their discretion, appoint a grade supervisor; provided, 
 that in counties where the number of teachers shall exceed one 
 hundred and fifty, one additional supervisor may be appointed ; 
 and for every additional one hundred teachers, one additional 
 supervisor may be appointed, who, in each case, shall have had 
 at least five years' experience as a teacher of elementary grades, 
 and such special preparation for this work as may, hereafter, be 
 determined by the State board of education. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 78. The secretary and treasurer of the board of county school 
 commissioners shall give bond to the State of Maryland, with 
 at least two securities to be approved by the said board, in such 
 penal sum as the said board shall determine, with the condition 
 that he will faithfully perform the duties of secretary and treas- 
 urer, pay over and apply all moneys that shall come to his 
 hands or care as treasurer to such persons and in such manner as 
 said board may, under the provisions of this article, direct ; and 
 that he will keep a full account of all moneys received and paid 
 by him, and all matters relating to the duties of his office, and 
 preserve the same and all vouchers relating thereto, and deliver 
 up all books and vouchers relating to his office to his successor, 
 which said bond, when executed, shall be filed in the office of 
 the clerk of the court for the county. He shall be present at 
 every meeting of the board, and may debate any question before 
 them, but shall have no vote. He shall keep the minutes and 
 conduct the correspondence, and shall duly file away and safely 
 keep all letters, reports and other papers pertaining to the busi- 
 ness of the board. He shall prepare and submit to the board 
 for their adoption the annual report to the State board of edu- 
 cation. 
 
 Howard vs. Hill, 88 Md., 119. 
 
 1890, ch. 511. 
 
 79. In lieu of the security provided for in the last preceding 
 section, the said bond may have the security of any deposit or 
 trust company, or other similar company, duly incorporated 
 under the laws of this State, and having by law the power to 
 act as such security. 
 
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 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 80. The person or persons acting- as secretary, treasurer and 
 county superintendent, under the provisions of this article, shall 
 devote their whole time to public school business, and shall 
 receive such compensation as the board of county school com- 
 missioners may direct. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 81. The superintendent of each county shall, on or before the 
 fifteenth day of January in every year, notify the comptroller 
 how many months the schools of his county have been kept open. 
 
 CHAPTER 12 State Normal Schools. 
 
 1914, ch. 124 
 
 82. There shall be located in the vicinity of the City of Balti- 
 more, in the City of Frostburg, and near the town of Bowie, State 
 Normal Schools for the instruction and practice of teachers in 
 the science of education, the art of teaching and the mode of gov- 
 erning schools; the said schools shall be under the control of the 
 State Board of Education who shall appoint the principals, neces- 
 sary assistants, and all other help. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 83. The faculty of each State normal school shall consist 
 of a principal and as many teachers as shall be determined by 
 the State board of education, who shall be appointed by said 
 board, and have such salaries and perform such duties as said 
 board shall direct. 
 
 1872. ch. 377. 
 
 84. The sessions of the State normal schools shall be de- 
 termined by the State board of education; provided, that the 
 school shall be open for not less than nine months in each year. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 85. There shall be maintained in each State normal school 
 and normal department receiving State aid a two years' normal 
 or professional course, in which common school branches may 
 be studied and reviewed and in which special emphasis is given 
 to professional subjects, including history of education, school 
 organization, methods of teaching and such other pedagogical 
 subjects as the State board of education may prescribe. Students 
 of both sexes shall be admitted to the normal course females 
 
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 at the age of sixteen years and males at the age of seventeen 
 years ; provided, such applicants satisfy the requirements of 
 admission and hold scholarships from a board of city or county 
 school commissioners, or receive appointment from the State 
 board of education, as hereinafter provided ; the State board of 
 education is authorized and empowered to arrange and prescribe 
 for each State normal school or normal department receiving 
 State aid, an academic or preparatory course, and shall pre- 
 scribe such qualifications of age and scholastic attainments as 
 it may deem proper. The students of the State normal schools 
 and normal departments receiving State aid shall be appor- 
 tioned by the State board of education, among the several 
 counties and the city of Baltimore, in proportion to their re- 
 spective representation in the General Assembly of the State; 
 the students shall be selected by the several boards of county 
 school commissioners and the board of commissioners of the 
 public schools of Baltimore city from among worthy persons 
 who desire to make teaching their profession, and who may 
 .possess the necessary scholastic qualifications, namely scholar- 
 ship equal to graduation from approved high schools for the 
 normal course, and scholarship equal to completion satisfactorily 
 of the seventh year grade of our public school curriculum for 
 the academic course; applicants for scholarships must file their 
 application for scholarship, and also with the State board of edu- 
 cation, a written declaration that their object in obtaining ad- 
 mission is to qualify themselves as public school teachers, and 
 that it is their intention to engage in the profession in this 
 State; whenever it is possible to do so, the board of county 
 school commissioners and the board of school commissioners of 
 Baltimore city shall appoint an alternate for each person who 
 may receive a scholarship, and if for any reason such person 
 who was awarded the scholarship does not use or accept the 
 same, or for any reason fails to become a student of the normal 
 school or normal department, then the person appointed as 
 alternate shall be entitled to the privileges of such scholarship. 
 If there be not applicants sufficient from any county or the city 
 of Baltimore, then the State board of education may fill all 
 vacancies by selecting applicants possessing the requisite quali- 
 fications from any portion of the State, in the proportion afore- 
 said. 
 
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 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 86. In addition to the students admitted from the counties 
 and the city of Baltimore, who shall enjoy the privileges of the 
 school and be furnished with the use of the text-books free of 
 charge, there may be admitted, in the discretion of the State 
 board of education, to the full capacity of the State normal 
 schools or normal departments, such other persons as may pos- 
 sess the requisite qualifications, who shall pay the sum of twen- 
 ty-five dollars per session and be subject to the same rules and 
 regulations as the other students. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 87. The State board of education shall prescribe the course 
 of study for the State normal schools and normal departments 
 receiving State aid, which shall be uniform as far as is prac- 
 ticable,, and supervise such schools and departments in every 
 particular not provided for in this article; they shall make ar- 
 rangements for practice teaching, and may organize and main- 
 tain model and experimental schools as a part of the normal 
 school or normal department when deemed best, in which stu- 
 dents of the normal course shall have opportunity to teach and 
 practice the modes of instruction and discipline inculcated in 
 the normal school or normal departments. 
 
 1914, ch. 849. 
 
 88. The annual sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) is 
 hereby appropriated for the support of the Maryland State Nor- 
 mal School, located in Baltimore County; the annual sum of ten 
 thousand dollars ($10,000) is hereby appropriated for the support 
 of Normal School No. 2, located at Frostburg; the annual sum of 
 seven thousand dollars ($7,000) is hereby appropriated for the 
 support of State Normal School No. 3, located near Bowie in 
 Prince George's County these appropriations to be paid in quar- 
 terly installments by the Treasurer of the State of Maryland on 
 the warrant of the Comptroller to the Treasurer of the State 
 Board of Education, and to be applied by said Board to the pay- 
 ment of teachers' salaries, clerical assistance, the purchase of ap- 
 paratus, text-books, fuel, light, stationery, and for other neces- 
 sary expenses in maintaining said Normal Schools; provided, 
 
38 PUBLIC SCHOOL LAWS 
 
 however, that all the moneys herein appropriated shall be paid 
 out of the moneys received into the State Treasury out of the 
 public school tax. 
 
 SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, 
 That insofar as this Act applies to the Maryland State Normal 
 School of Baltimore, it shall not take effect until August 1, 1915, 
 said date being the beginning of the scholastic and fiscal year 
 of said school. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 89. All donations or bequests of money or personal property, 
 and all grants or devises of lands for the benefit of any State 
 normal school or normal department, shall be held in trust by 
 the State board of education. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 90. The State board of education shall, on or before the first 
 day of January, in each and every year, make a report to the 
 governor of the condition of the schools of the State; a state- 
 ment of the apportionment of money to the counties and the 
 city of Baltimore, for the support of schools ; an abstract of the 
 reports received from the board of county school commission- 
 ers, together with such suggestions for the improvement of 
 schools and the advancement of public education, as the State 
 board of education shall deem expedient. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 91. The governor shall cause three thousand copies of said 
 report, five hundred to be bound in cloth, to be printed and 
 distributed during every year. 
 
 CHAPTER 13 Teachers' Institutes. 
 
 1914, ch. 84. 
 
 92. A teachers' institute, to continue not less than five days, 
 shall be held in each County once a year, and in the absence of 
 the State Superintendent the County Superintendent shall pre- 
 side. Two or more Counties may combine and hold a joint in- 
 stitute. The Board of County School Commissioners of any 
 County may in lieu of holding a teachers' institute require at least 
 one-fourth of the number of the teachers of that County to attend 
 a summer school, which has been approved by the State Super- 
 
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 mtendent of Public Education, during the summer preceding the 
 school sessions for which no institute is held, provided the said 
 Board of County School Commissioners reimburses those teach- 
 ers who attend summer school for their expenses to the extent 
 of at least twenty-five dollars, and the County Superintendent 
 shall have authority to designate the teachers who are required 
 to attend summer school under the provisions of this Section. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 93. The State superintendent of public education shall fix a 
 time of the meeting of the institute, and it shall be the duty of the 
 county superintendent to notify each teacher of the time and 
 place of meeting, and when so notified, each teacher in actual 
 employment is required to attend ; the president of the school 
 board shall select the place for the institute to meet. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 94. These institutes, being designed as temporary normal 
 schools, shall be attended by the State superintendent, when 
 possible to do so, and by one or more instructors of a State 
 normal school or normal department faculty, to be selected by 
 the State superintendent and the principal of the school, and 
 any member of the board of county school commissioners who 
 may choose to attend. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 95. The members of the State board of education and the 
 members of the county school boards shall encourage the work 
 of the Maryland State teachers' reading circle, -which was or- 
 ganized by the Maryland State teachers' association, and which 
 is a body politic and with power to organize, manage and direct 
 a State teachers' reading circle. 
 
 CHAPTER 14 Teachers' Associations. 
 
 1890. ch. 323. 
 
 96. District, county and State teachers' associations are rec- 
 ommended as important means of elevating the standard of 
 public education by mutual conference, interchange of views 
 and suggestions as to systems of teaching and discipline. 
 
40 PUBUC SCHOOL LAWS 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 97. It shall be the care of the county superintendent to aid 
 in the organization of these associations, to encourage attend- 
 ance, to secure competent lecturers, and to impart such infor- 
 mation as will encourage teachers in their work and fit them 
 for the performance of their duties. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 98. These associations may occupy any of the schoolhouses. 
 
 CHAPTER 15 District Libraries. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 99. For the further encouragement of education, district 
 libraries ought to be established in each schoolhouse district un- 
 der the care of the teacher, as librarian; for this purpose the 
 sum of ten dollars per annum is ordered to be paid by the board 
 of county school commissioners out of the State school fund, to 
 any schoolhouse district as library money, as long as the people 
 of the district raise the same amount annually ; the books must 
 be selected by the board of district school trustees and teachers 
 from a list to be furnished by the State board of education. 
 
 1910, ch. 505. 
 
 100. The governor shall biennially appoint four persons, at 
 least two of whom shall be women, who, with the State librarian, 
 the superintendent of public instruction and the librarian of the 
 Enoch Pratt Free Library, shall constitute the Maryland pub- 
 lic library commission. 
 
 101. Said commission shall annually elect from their own 
 number a president and a secretary, who, with the other mem- 
 bers of the commission, shall serve without pay, but the neces- 
 sary traveling expenses of the commissioners in attending upon 
 the meetings of the commission or its business away from their 
 homes may be paid out of the appropriation for the commis- 
 sion. The secretary shall also act as treasurer of the commis- 
 sion and shall give bond with approved security for the proper 
 performance of his duties. 
 
 102. Said commission shall give advice and counsel to all 
 public libraries 'and public school libraries in the State and to 
 all persons proposing to establish them, as to the best means 
 
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 of their establishment and maintenance, the selection of books, 
 cataloguing and other details of management. Said commis- 
 sion shall annually report to the governor in the month of No- 
 vember a full and complete account of its doings and of its re- 
 ceipts and expenditures. 
 
 103. Said commission shall organize and conduct traveling 
 libraries throughout the State, shall formulate such reasonable 
 regulations for the use and care of the books of such traveling 
 libraries as they may deem proper; and shall from time to time 
 send out and distribute such books throughout the State, and 
 at suitable intervals change such distributions so as to secure 
 the greatest advantage. 
 
 104. The State treasurer shall annually, on the first day of 
 October, pay to the treasurer of the commission the sum of 
 $1,500 for the use of the commission. 
 
 105. Said commission, upon application of the library direc- 
 tors of a county, municipality or election district which has 
 complied with the provisions of this law relative to the estab- 
 lishment of such library, may expend not more than one hundred 
 dollars for books to be selected and purchased by said commis- 
 sion and delivered to said directors for the purpose of establish- 
 ing a free public library. 
 
 106. The boards of county commissioners shall have power 
 to establish and maintain central free public libraries at the 
 county seats of their respective counties, with branches in such 
 places within the limits of said counties as the demand of the 
 people of the vicinity may justify, so as to give them convenient 
 access to the free libraries and reading-rooms, and the legis- 
 lative authority of any incorporated municipality shall have 
 power to establish public libraries in like manner for said 
 municipality. 
 
 107. The board of county commissioners of any county in the 
 State, for the establishment and maintenance of said free public 
 libraries and reading-rooms in their respective counties, may 
 levy an annual tax not exceeding five cents on each one hundred 
 dollars of the assessed valuation of taxable property, such tax to 
 be levied and collected in like manner as other general taxes of 
 said county, and when collected to be known as the public 
 library fund. 
 
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 108. In case a majority of the voters in any election district 
 shall petition the board of county commissioners to establish a 
 public library in said district, the said board shall establish and 
 control such public library in the same manner as the legisla- 
 tive authority of an incorporated municipality may establish 
 and control a library under this act, and said board of county 
 commissioners may levy a tax on the election district for the 
 said library in like said free public libraries and reading-rooms 
 in their manner as is done for the library of an incorporated 
 municipality and to the same amount, and said election dis- 
 trict library shall be managed in the same manner as the library 
 of an incorporated municipality. 
 
 109. The legislative authority of any municipality may levy a 
 tax for public library purposes upon the assessed valuation of 
 the taxable property within said municipality, not exceeding 
 seven cents on each one hundred dollars, to be collected in like 
 manner as the other taxes of said municipality. The money 
 so collected by the governing boards of the incorporated mu- 
 nicipalities shall be paid over to the trustees or board of direc- 
 tors, to be appointed as hereinafter provided, and shall be ex- 
 pended by them as in their judgment they may deem best. 
 
 110. Whenever any board of county commissioners or leg- 
 islative authority of an incorporated municipality shall have de- 
 termined to establish and maintain public libraries and reading- 
 rooms under this act, such board of county commissioners or 
 legislative authority of an incorporated municipality shall ap- 
 point for such county, election district or incorporated munici- 
 pality, a board of nine directors, who shall be chosen at large 
 with reference to their fitness for such office ; said directors shall 
 hold office, one-third for two years, one-third for four years, 
 and one-third for six years, from the first of January following 
 their appointment and until their successors are chosen. At 
 their first regular meeting they shall cast lots for their respective 
 terms, and biennially thereafter the board of county commis- 
 sioners or legislative authority of the municipality shall appoint, 
 as before, three directors to take the place of the retiring direc- 
 tors, who shall hold office for six years and until their succes- 
 
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 sors are appointed. The board of county commissioners or 
 legislative authority of the municipality may remove any di- 
 rector for inefficiency, misconduct or neglect of duty. 
 
 111. Vacancies in the said board of directors occasioned by 
 removal, resignation or otherwise, shall be reported to the board 
 of county commissioners or legislative authority of the munici- 
 pality, and shall be filled forthwith by them for the unexpired 
 portion of the term. 
 
 112. Said directors shall, immediately after their appoint- 
 ment, meet at the call of the county commissioners or legislative 
 authority of the municipality, and organize by the election of a 
 president and vice-president from their own number, and a per- 
 son or persons to act as secretary and treasurer. The treasurer 
 so elected shall give bond for the faithful performance of his 
 trust in such sum as said library board shall determine ; the said 
 bond to be approved by the said library board and the expense 
 thereof paid out of the library fund. Directors shall receive no 
 compensation. They shall make and adopt by-laws, rules and 
 regulations not inconsistent with this act, for their own guidance 
 and for the government of the libraries and reading-rooms. 
 They shall have exclusive control of the expenditure of all 
 moneys collected to the credit of the library fund under this 
 act, but such expenditures and all contracts made by them shall 
 not exceed the appropriations provided and made under Sections 
 3 and 4 of this act. They shall also have control of the con- 
 struction of any library building, and of the supervision, care 
 and custody of the library grounds, rooms or buildings con- 
 structed or set apart for that purpose ; and they shall have power 
 to purchase or lease grounds, to occupy, lease or erect an appro- 
 priate building or buildings for the use of said library, to ap- 
 point a suitable librarian and assistants, to fix the compensa- 
 tion of such appointees and to remove them if unsatisfactory, 
 and shall in general carry out the spirit and intent of this act in 
 establishing and maintaining public libraries and reading-rooms. 
 
 113. All moneys collected for such libraries and reading- 
 rooms by the county commissioners or governing, boards of in- 
 corporated municipalities as hereinabove provided, shall be de- 
 posited in the treasury of said county or of the said municipality 
 respectively, to the credit of the library fund, and shall be kept 
 
44 PUBLIC SCHOOL LAWS 
 
 separate and apart from other moneys of such county or mu- 
 nicipality, and paid over to the treasurer of the library board 
 upon the demand of the board. 
 
 114. Every library and reading-room established under this 
 act shall be forever free to the use of) the inhabitants of the 
 county, election district or municipality where it is located ; sub- 
 ject, however, to such reasonable rules and regulations as the 
 library board may adopt, and said board may exclude from 
 the use of said libraries and reading-rooms any and all persons 
 who shall wilfully violate such rules, and may extend the privi- 
 ledge of said library to persons living outside of the county or 
 municipality, upon such terms and conditions as said board 
 may from time to time by its regulations prescribe. 
 
 115. Every person who shall steal or unlawfully take or de- 
 tain, or who shall mutilate, injure or disfigure by writing, mark- 
 ing, cutting, tearing, or otherwise, any book, map, picture, en- 
 graving, manuscript or other property of any public library 
 or circulating library, or library belonging to the State of Mary- 
 land, or to any municipality or public body or incorporated in- 
 stitution, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction 
 thereof shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, said 
 fine to be used for the benefit of the library, or be imprisoned 
 for not more than three months, or, in the discretion of the court, 
 may be both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid. 
 
 116. Each library board established under this act shall make 
 an annual report to the county commissioners or legislative au- 
 thority of the municipality on or before the twentieth day of 
 January, stating the condition of their trust on the first day of 
 January in that year, the various sums of money received from 
 the library fund and from other sources, and how such moneys 
 have been expended and for what purpose, the number of books 
 and periodicals on hand, the number added by purchase, gift or 
 otherwise during the year, the number lost or missing, the num- 
 ber of books loaned out, and the general character and kind of 
 such books, with such other statistics and information and sug- 
 gestions as they may deem of general interest. All such portion 
 of said report as relates to the receipt and expenditure of money 
 
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 shall (be subject to the audit of the county commissioners or 
 legislative authority of the municipality. A copy of said report 
 shall be sent annually to the Maryland public library commis- 
 sion. 
 
 117. The said library board may receive, hold and possess, 
 or sell and dispose of all such gifts, donations, devises, bequests 
 and legacies as may be made to the county commissioners, to the 
 municipality, or to the library board for the purpose of estab- 
 lishing, increasing or improving such public library. In such 
 cases, the library board shall act as trustees, and have control 
 of such gifts, donations, devises, bequests and legacies, and may 
 apply the proceeds, interests, rents and profits accruing there- 
 from in such manner as will best promote the prosperity and 
 utility of such library; provided, such application be according 
 to the terms of the gifts, donations, devises, bequests and 
 legacies. 
 
 118. Every public library established under this law shall 
 receive from the State a copy of the laws, journals and all other 
 books published by the authority of the State except the Mary- 
 land law reports, and in return therefor shall transmit a copy of 
 its annual report to the State library. 
 
 119. All real estate acquired for the use and benefit of any 
 library and reading-room, established as aforesaid, and all prop- 
 erty that shall <be a part of any such library and reading-room, 
 shall be exempt from all State, county and municipal taxation. 
 
 120. The provisions of sections 100-120 shall not apply to 
 Baltimore county. 
 
 CHAPTER 16 The City of Baltimore. 
 
 1884, ch. 2. 
 
 121. The mayor and city council of Baltimore shall have 
 full power and authority to establish in said city a system of 
 free public schools, which shall include a school or schools for 
 manual or industrial training, under such ordinances, rules and 
 regulations as they may deem fit and proper to enact and pre- 
 scribe ; they may delegate supervisory powers and control to a 
 
46 PUBUC SCHOOIy LAWS 
 
 board of school commissioners ; may prescribe rules for building 
 schoolhouses and locating, establishing and closing schools, and 
 may in general do every act that may be necessary or proper in 
 the premises. 
 
 M. and C. C. of Baltimore vs. Wetherby, 52 Md., 442. 
 Hooper vs. New, 85 Md., 581. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 122. The board of commissioners of public schools of Balti- 
 more city, or by whatever name the body may be known that 
 has supervisory powers and control over the public schools of 
 Baltimore city, shall have power to examine, appoint and remove 
 teachers, prescribe the qualifications, fix the salaries, subject to 
 the approval of the mayor and city council, and select text- 
 books for schools of said city ; provided, such text-books shall 
 contain nothing of a sectarian or partisan character. The board 
 of commissioners of public schools of said city shall annually 
 make a report to the State board of education of the condition 
 of the schools under their charge, to include a statement of ex- 
 penditures, the number of children taught, and such other sta- 
 tistical information as may be necessary to exhibit the operation 
 of the schools. 
 
 Hooper vs. New, 85 Md., 581. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 123. The mayor and city council of Baltimore shall have 
 power and authority to make all ordinances for the protection 
 of the schoolhouse and property, and to punish any person who 
 may disturb the sessions of said public schools. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 124. The said mayor and city council are hereby authorized 
 and empowered to levy and collect upon the assessable property 
 in said city, as other taxes are levied and collected, such amount 
 of taxes as may be necessary to defray all the expenses incurred 
 for educational purposes by said mayor and city council. 
 
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 CHAPTER 17 High Schools. 
 
 1910, ch. 386. 
 
 125. The board of county school commissioners of any county 
 shall have authority to establish high schools, subject to the 
 approval of the State board of education, in their respective 
 counties, when, in their judgment, it is advisable to do so. All 
 high schools so established and those now in operation shall be 
 under the direct control of the several boards of county school 
 commissioners, subject to the provisions of this article, provided 
 that when instruction below that of the high school grades is 
 given in the same building, or on the same premises, such grade 
 work may also be under the direct control of the board of county 
 school commissioners, and the principal of the high school shall 
 also be principal of the elementary department. 
 
 1914, ch. 651. 
 
 126. For the encouragement of secondary education in Mary- 
 land, the State shall extend aid to such groups of high schools 
 as shall be herein designated and described, and in such amounts 
 and in such manner as shall hereinafter be set forth. All high 
 schools of the Counties of the State of Maryland receiving State 
 aid shall be arranged by the State Board of Education into two 
 groups, to be designated first group and second group, accord- 
 ing to the number of pupils enrolled, teachers employed, and 
 years of instruction given. High schools of the first group shall 
 fulfill the following minimum requirements : (a) an enrollment of 
 not less than eighty pupils ; (b) employ not less than four teach- 
 ers for the regular high school work, exclusive of instructors of 
 special subjects named under (e) ; (c) four years' course of in- 
 struction of not less than thirty-six weeks in each year, same to 
 conform to the standard required by the State Board of Educa- 
 tion ; (d) the annual salary of the principal to be not less than 
 $1,200 for a person of less than three years' experience as princi- 
 pal of an approved high school, not less than $1,300 for a person 
 of three years' experience as principal of an approved high school, 
 not less than $1,400 for a person of five years' experience as 
 principal of an approved high school, and not less than $1,500 
 for a person of eight years' experience as principal of an approved 
 high school ; and the annual salary of each assistant teacher 
 
48 PUBLIC SCHOOL LAWS 
 
 regularly employed to be not less than $500 for a person of less 
 than three years' experience as teacher in an approved high 
 school, not less than $600 for a person of three years' experience 
 as teacher in an approved high school, not less than $700 for a 
 person of five years' experience as a teacher in an approved high 
 school, and not less than $800 for a person of eight years' ex- 
 perience as teacher in an approved high school ; experience prior 
 to the year 1910 not to be considered in determining salary of 
 principal and assistant teachers; (e) provision to be made for 
 manual training and domestic science courses, and also a com- 
 mercial or an agricultural course, as may be determined by the 
 Board of County School Commissioners; (f) no person to be em- 
 ployed as principal or assistant teacher whose qualifications have 
 not been passed upon by the State Board of Education. High 
 schools of the second group shall fulfill the following minimum 
 requirements; (a) an enrollment of not less than thirty-five 
 pupils; (b) employ not less than two teachers for the regular 
 high school work, exclusive of instructors of special subjects 
 named under (e) ; (c) a three years' course of instruction of not 
 less than thirty-six weeks in each year, same to conform to the 
 standard required by the State Board of Education; (d) the an- 
 nual salary of the principal to be not less than $1,000 for a person 
 of less than three years' experience as principal of an approved 
 high school, not less than $1,100 for a person of three years' 
 experience as principal of an approved high school, not less than 
 $1,200 for a person of five years' experience as principal of an 
 approved high school, and not less than $1,300 for a person of 
 eight years' experience as principal of an approved high school; 
 and the annual salary of each assistant teacher regularly em- 
 ployed to be not less than $500 for a person of less than three 
 years' experience as teacher in an approved high school, not less 
 than $600 for a person of three years' experience as teacher in 
 an approved high school, not less than $700 for a person of five 
 years' experience as a teacher in an approved high school, and 
 not less than $800 for a person of eight years' experience as 
 teacher in an approved high school ; experience prior to the year 
 1910 not to be considered in determining salary of principal and 
 assistant teachers ; '(e) provision to be made for a manual train- 
 ing or an agricultural or a commercial course, as may be deter- 
 mined by the Board of County School Commissioners; (f) no 
 
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 person to be employed as principal or assistant teacher whose 
 qualifications have not been passed upon by the State Board of 
 Education. The course of instruction in schools of the second 
 group may be extended to four years by the Board of County 
 School Commissioners by the employment of such additional 
 teacher or teachers as may be required by the State Board of 
 Education ; provided, that the salary of such additional teacher or 
 teachers shall be paid wholly by the said Board of County School 
 Commissioners ; and in the schools of the second group, where 
 the course of instruction has been so extended to a four-year 
 course, the graduates shall receive the same recognition as gradu- 
 ates of schools of the first group. No promotions of high school 
 pupils from one grade to another, or graduation, shall be made 
 without the approval of the principal and the County Super- 
 intendent. 
 
 1914, ch. 82. 
 
 126-A. To encourage the idea that no person should enter 
 upon the duties of teaching without special training for the work, 
 the Board of County School Commissioners of any County may 
 inaugurate in one approved high school of the first group, a two 
 years' teachers' training course for students having completed suc- 
 cessfully the tenth year grade, and who wish to prepare them- 
 selves for teaching. The State Board of Education shall pre- 
 scribe the course in pedagogy and all necessary regulations to 
 make the work of the course effective, and have such diplomas 
 accepted as certificates to teach in elementary schools. 
 
 1910, ch. 386. 
 
 127. It shall be the duty of the State superintendent of edu- 
 cation, or some person designated by him, to make an annual 
 inspection of all high schools receiving State aid, and also such 
 other schools as make application, through their respective 
 county superintendents, to receive said State aid. He shall, on 
 or before the fifteenth day of August of each year, prepare a 
 list of high schools, designating the group to which each belongs, 
 the amount of said State aid to which each is entitled, and to 
 whom same should be paid. The preparation of said list shall 
 be based on information obtained through the annual inspection, 
 
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 written reports of the principal or county superintendent, or 
 other reliable sources. The superintendent's report of such 
 schools shall be submitted to the State board of education for 
 approval, and when approved, said board shall certify same to 
 the comptroller of the treasury, on or before, the first day of 
 October of each year, and said comptroller of the treasury shall 
 issue his warrant upon the treasurer of the State in equal quar- 
 terly installments in each and every year at the time when the 
 public school tax is now or may hereafter be, distributed, pay- 
 able to the order of the treasurers of the respective boards of 
 county school commissioners, or the board of commissioners of 
 public schools of Baltimore city, for such sum or sums as they 
 are entitled to receive under the provisions of this article, and 
 shown by the certified list of high schools as aforesaid ; same to 
 be paid out of the levy for public schools ; provided, however, 
 that the apportionment authorized in this section for October 1, 
 1910, and January 1, 1911, shall be paid out of the ordinary 
 receipts of the treasury; and provided further, that any high 
 school receiving State aid, under the provisions of this article, 
 shall forfeit its right to receive State aid under the provision 
 of any other act or resolution of the General Assembly of 
 Maryland, provided that nothing in this section shall be con- 
 strued to repeal any appropriations made prior to the year 
 1872 and chargeable to what is known as the academic fund; 
 nor shall any school now receiving an appropriation from the 
 State lose same until such time as it should receive an appro- 
 priation under the provisions of this act. 
 
 1910, ch. 386. 
 
 128. Each high school in the first group in the counties of 
 Maryland shall receive State aid on the basis of the cost of 
 instruction, and in the following manner: The sum of six hun- 
 dred dollars on account of the principal, and the sum of $300 
 on account of each of the first three assistants employed for 
 regular high school work ; the sum of $400 on account of each 
 of two special teachers, who shall spend not less than two-fifths 
 of their time in the school receiving said amounts; and the sum 
 of $100 on account of each additional regular grade teacher, 
 provided the total amount does not exceed the sum of $2500. 
 In this article the term special teacher shall be construed to 
 
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 mean a teacher of commercial, manual training, domestic science 
 or agricultural branches. Each high school in the counties of 
 Maryland of the second group shall receive State aid on the 
 basis of the cost of instruction, and in the following manner: 
 The sum of $600 on account of the principal ; the sum of $400 
 on account of one assistant teacher employed for regular high 
 school work ; and the sum of $400 on account of the instructor 
 of special subjects to be designated by the county school board; 
 provided that if an instructor in manual training or agricul- 
 tural work be required to divide his or her time among not 
 more than four schools of this group, $150 shall be allowed on 
 account of each of such schools ; provided also that the amount 
 to be received by each of the four high schools of Baltimore 
 city shall be equal to the maximum amount received on account 
 of any high school in the counties of the State; provided, further, 
 that the board of county school commissioners of each county 
 shall submit annually to the county commissioners of -their re- 
 spective counties, at least thirty days prior to the date for 
 making the usual county levy for school purposes, a list of all 
 high schools of the county, including those not entitled to State 
 aid, as well as those classified in this article, and an itemized 
 statement of the estimated cost of maintaining same, and the 
 said boards of county commissioners shall make a separate levy 
 for high schools, publishing same once a week for three succes- 
 sive weeks prior to date of making said levy, in one or more 
 county papers. 
 
 1910, ch. 386. 
 
 129. All certificates or diplomas issued to students having 
 completed a course of study in a high school of the counties of 
 Maryland shall show the group to which said high school be- 
 longs, the course taken by the student, and the number of years 
 of instruction given, and the graduates of any approved high 
 school providing a four years' course shall be admitted without 
 examination to the freshman class of any college of Maryland 
 receiving financial aid from the State. 
 
 1910, ch. 386. 
 
 130. The State board of education shall prepare the course 
 of study to be used by the several groups of high schools de- 
 
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 scribed in this article, and have authority to make any by-laws 
 for their government not at variance with the provisions of 
 this article. 
 
 CHAPTER 18 Schools for Colored Children. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 131. It shall be the duty of the board of county school com- 
 missioners to establish one or more public schools in each elec- 
 tion district for all colored youths, between six and twenty 
 years of age, to which admission shall 'be free, and which shall 
 be kept open as long as the board of county school commission- 
 ers shall determine; provided, the colored population of such 
 district shall warrant said board in establishing said schools. 
 
 1874, ch. 463. 
 
 132. Each colored school shall be under the direction of a 
 special board of school trustees, to be appointed by the board of 
 county school commissioners, and shall be subject to the same 
 laws for its government and furnish instruction in the same 
 branches as the schools for white children. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 133. The comptroller shall not apportion any separate fund 
 for the colored schools ; but colored schools shall be supported 
 and maintained from the general school fund, the apportionment 
 of which shall be hereinafter provided for. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 134. The total amount of taxes paid for school purposes by 
 the colored people of any county, or in the city of Baltimore, 
 together with any donations that may be made for the pur- 
 pose, shall also be devoted to the maintenance of the schools 
 for colored children. 
 
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 CHAPTER 19 Sources of Income. 
 
 'NoTE. The acts of 1914 make the following provisions for the support of 
 schools for the years of 1915 and 1916. 
 
 135. The county commissioners of the several counties and 
 the mayor and city council of Baltimore are directed to levy a 
 State tax, for the years of 1915 and 1916, of seventeen 
 cents on each one hundred dollars to aid in the support 
 of public schools, to be distributed according to law among the 
 several counties and the city of Baltimore. The following sums 
 of money are hereby appropriated for the system of free public 
 schools (white and colored) in the several counties and the city 
 of Baltimore, and for the State normal schools, the State board 
 of education, superintendent of public education, assistant super- 
 intendent of public education, clerk to the State board of educa- 
 tion, the Maryland State normal school, Baltimore ; State normal 
 school No. 2, at Frostburg; State normal school No. 3, for col- 
 ored students ; retired teachers' pensions as provided by chapter 
 736 of the acts of 1914, for the purchase of free text-books, and 
 for the aid of approved high schools, the sum of one million 
 four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or whatever sum may be 
 paid into the treasury on account of the tax for public schools; 
 provided, however, that the appropriations for all of the afore- 
 going purposes mentioned in this subtitle "schools" shall be 
 paid out of the receipts from the public school tax, and shall be 
 apportioned by the comptroller quarterly, viz. : On the first day 
 of October, the first day of January, the fifteenth day of March 
 and the fifteenth day of June, in the proportion to which they 
 are respectively entitled, and shall be paid by the treasurer, 
 upon the warrant of the comptroller, quarterly, to wit : On the 
 tenth day of October, the tenth day of January, the twenty-fifth 
 day of March and the twenty-fifth day of June ; together with the 
 further sum of thirty-four thousand and sixty-nine dollars and 
 thirty-six cents, to be placed to the credit of the free school 
 fund, in accordance with the provision of the act of the Decem- 
 ber session of 1839, chapter 33, and substituted for the interest 
 on the surplus revenue as provided in said act, and shall be ap- 
 portioned and paid in the manner now provided by law; pro- 
 vided, however, that this sum shall also be paid out of the re- 
 ceipts from the public school tax ; also, such sum or sums as 
 
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 may be received to the credit of the free school fund from the 
 interest on stocks standing to the credit of said fund, or from 
 other sources ; for donations to colleges, academies and schools, 
 as set forth in acts and resolutions of the General Assembly 
 heretofore passed, forty-four thousand five hundred dollars, or 
 so much thereof as may be necessary ; provided, however, that 
 none of the appropriations to colleges, academies and schools 
 shall be paid to any of said institutions, excepting to such as 
 shall have made a full report as required by Section 17 of 
 Article 77 of the code of public general laws ; for the instruction 
 of the indigent blind to be applied under the direction of the 
 governor, in accordance with the provisions of the acts of 1868, 
 chapter 215, as amended by the acts of 1912, chapter 200, thirty- 
 three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 136. The treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, shall 
 pay to each of the counties and the city of Baltimore the pro- 
 portion of the free school fund to which such city or county is 
 entitled under the apportionment to be made by the comptroller, 
 as hereinafter provided; and he shall pay the same to the treas- 
 urer of the board of school commissioners of Baltimore city 
 and the several counties ; and the several colleges and academies 
 shall respectively receive the donations granted to them by 
 any laws or resolutions of the General Assembly, subject to 
 the conditions annexed thereto. 
 
 1902, ch. 306. 
 
 137. As soon as the comptroller shall have received from the 
 city of Baltimore and the several counties returns to the amount 
 of the State school tax levied in each county and the city of 
 Baltimore, he shall immediately thereafter apportion the amount 
 of the whole levy to the several counties and the city of Balti- 
 more, in proportion to their respective population between the 
 ages of five and twenty years. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 138. On the first day of January, the fifteenth day of March, 
 the fifteenth day of June, and the first day of October, in each 
 year, the comptroller shall apportion the amount of school tax 
 
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 received by the treasurer among the several counties and the 
 city of Baltimore, in proportion to the whole amount appor- 
 tioned to each by the comptroller; and he shall notify the State 
 board of education and the treasurer of the several boards of 
 county school commissioners of the counties and the city of 
 Baltimore on the several days aforesaid ; and the treasurer shall 
 pay the several amounts within ten days after said notification, 
 upon the draft of the president and secretary of the several 
 boards of county school commissioners aforesaid; provided, also, 
 that if in any county the schools shall be kept open less than 
 nine months of the year ending December 31, or any white 
 teacher regularly employed receiving an annual salary of less 
 than three hundred dollars, as hereinbefore provided for, the 
 comptroller shall withhold from the said county the March 
 instalment of the State school tax; that the provisions of this 
 section shall apply to Garrett county only in so far as to oblige 
 that county to keep its schools open seven and one-half months, 
 and pay its teachers a minimum salary of two hundred dollars 
 per year. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 139. In making the apportionments required by the preceding 
 section, it shall be the duty of the comptroller to equalize as far 
 as may be possible the sums to be apportioned, so as to appor- 
 tion and distribute the same amount, as far as may be practica- 
 ble, on each of said days ; and until otherwise expressly directed 
 by law, the comptroller shall charge to said fund and pay there- 
 from the annual appropriations that have been or may hereafter 
 continue to be made for said State normal school? ; and also 
 the appropriation for the colored normal school; the salary of 
 the State superintendent of public education; the salary of the 
 clerk of the State superintendent of public education, and the 
 expenses of the State board of education. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 140. When the levy of any year shall have been collected 
 the comptroller shall apportion among the several counties and 
 the city of Baltimore the amount allowed on the levy for insol- 
 vencies and abatements, and shall transmit a statement of the 
 same to the State board of education. 
 
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 1882, ch. 429. 
 
 141. The treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, 
 shall annually pay, on the first day of April, to the school com- 
 missioners of Anne Arundel county, the sum of four hundred 
 dollars as an academy fund, in addition to the apportionment 
 now received by them for such purpose ; the said sum, when 
 received by said commissioners, to be paid to the trustees of 
 "Anne Arundel county academy." 
 
 CHAPTER 20 Colored Industrial Schools. 
 
 1910, ch. 210. 
 
 142. It shall be the duty of the board of county school com- 
 missioners of each county in this State, whenever a suitable 
 building or room, or rooms, connected with one of the colored 
 schools of said county shall be provided by the county, to accept 
 the same, if, in the judgment of the board of county school 
 commissioners, there is any necessity therefor, and thereafter 
 to provide for the maintenance of such colored industrial school 
 or schools where instruction shall be given daily in domestic 
 science and such industrial arts as may be outlined by the 
 county school board, and a part of the appropriation about 
 one-half to be hereinafter provided shall be used for main- 
 taining such a department or school. 
 
 1910, ch. 210. 
 
 143. Whenever any such colored industrial school is opened 
 in any county the president and secretary of the board of county 
 school commissioners of said county shall report the fact to 
 the secretary of the State board of education, and the State 
 board of education shall, without delay, proceed to appoint a 
 proper person, well qualified for such inspection, to visit the 
 said school and give a certificate of approval of its condition 
 and the plan upon which it is conducted to the said State board 
 of education on or before the tenth of September following the 
 inspection ; and said colored industrial school shall be inspected 
 annually thereafter by the State superintendent of public edu- 
 cation, or by some person to be designated by him, and the 
 result of such inspection shall be submitted to the State board 
 
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 of education not later than the fifteenth day of July of each year. 
 The State board of education shall submit annually to the 
 comptroller of the State on or before the twentieth day of 
 September a list of such schools entitled to receive the special 
 appropriation for industrial education. 
 
 1910, ch. 210. 
 
 144. The comptroller of the treasury, upon receiving the cer- 
 tificate of approval from the State board of education, is hereby 
 authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon the treasurer 
 of the State for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, payable to 
 the order of the treasurer of the board of county school commis- 
 sioners having inaugurated such a colored industrial school and 
 same approved by the State board of education, out of any 
 money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, on the 
 first day of October of each year ; one part of said' appropriation 
 about one-half to be used for the support of one colored in- 
 dustrial school in the county, and the other part about one- 
 half shall be used by the board of school commissioners of the 
 county where said colored industrial school is located, for the 
 employment of a capable and trained supervisor of colored 
 schools, who shall be required to visit, under the direction of the 
 county superintendent, all the colored schools of the county as 
 often as said county superintendent may direct, and cause in- 
 struction of an industrial character to be made a daily part of 
 the work of every colored school. The management and con- 
 trol of such an industrial school and the employment of a super- 
 visor shall be in the hands of the board of county school com- 
 missioners of the county where such school is located. 
 
 1910, ch. 210. 
 
 145. No appropriation for the full amount of fifteen hundred 
 dollars, hereby authorized for the support of one central colored 
 industrial school and for the employment of a colored school 
 supervisor in such county where the colored industrial school 
 may be located, shall be paid as authorized after the first annual 
 appropriation, unless said colored industrial school shall have 
 had for the preceding year an average attendance of thirty pupils 
 and as many as ten colored schools in the county where such 
 industrial school is located. If in any county where there are 
 
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 less than ten colored schools, a colored industrial school shall 
 be established, the State board of education, in its discretion, 
 may recommend the payment of a part of said appropriation, 
 not to exceed one-half the amount, or seven hundred and fifty 
 dollars ; and when such recommendation is made to the comp- 
 troller, he is authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon 
 the treasurer for said amount, provided it does not exceed one- 
 half of the whole appropriation. 
 
 1910, ch. 386. 
 
 146. The superintendent of public education shall supervise 
 and inspect the work of industrial and agricultural training done 
 in the several counties of the State under the provisions of this 
 article; collect all necessary statistics pertaining thereto, and 
 annually, on or before the twentieth day of August of each year, 
 certify to the. comptroller the names of such counties as shall 
 have complied with the provisions of this article relating to such 
 training ; and upon the receipt of said certificate from the super- 
 intendent of public education, but not otherwise, the comptroller 
 shall draw his warrant upon the treasurer, payable to the order 
 of the treasurer of the board of county school commissioners of 
 the county so certified as entitled to receive the same, for the full 
 amount of money so certified to be due to such county under 
 the provisions of this article; and the superintendent of public 
 education shall, on or before the twentieth day of August of each 
 year, submit to the State board of education a full report of all 
 matters, pertaining to industrial and agricultural training in 
 such counties, and attach thereto a copy of the certificate filed 
 by him with the comptroller. 
 
 1910, ch. 386. 
 
 147. The several boards of county school commissioners are 
 hereby authorized to make manual training, domestic science 
 and agriculture a part of the course of instruction in any of the 
 schools of their respective counties that they, in their judgment, 
 may think advisable, provided that said instruction shall conform 
 to the course prescribed by the State board of education. 
 
 NOTE. Chapter 386, section 2, 1910, provides that nothing in this 
 chapter shall be construed to repeal the annual appropriation of $1,500 
 for the maintenance of manual training in Charles county, payable to 
 the trustees of the McDonough Institute. 
 
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 Farmers' Institutes. 
 
 1896, ch. 102. 
 
 148. A department of "farmers' institutes" shall be established 
 for the State of Maryland ; the purpose of these institutes shall 
 be to bring before the farmers of the State such information as 
 will effectually remedy many of the existing evils now prevalent 
 in every department of agriculture as now pursued in Maryland ; 
 and at said institutes men competent to instruct shall be present, 
 and such topics shall be discussed as pertain to the principal 
 agricultural interests of the several sections. 
 
 1896, ch. 102. 
 
 149. One such institute shall be held in each year in each 
 county of the State, and an additional one in each county, if 
 deemed necessary and desirable. 
 
 1896, ch. 102. 
 
 150. Said institutes shall be under the direction of a director, 
 to be appointed by the trustees of the Maryland agricultural 
 college, who shall be a person well versed in the profession of 
 agriculture, and of practical experience, whose title shall be 
 "director of farmers' institutes," whose salary shall be fixed by 
 said board of trustees and paid out of the appropriation herein- 
 after provided, and whose duties shall be defined by said board ; 
 the said institutes shall be a department of said college similar 
 to the experiment station ; all expenses of said institutes shall 
 be paid out of said appropriation ; and said board of trustees is 
 invested with all powers necessary to carry into effect the pro- 
 visions of this subtitle, but no expenses shall be incurred beyond 
 the amount appropriated. 
 
 1904, ch. 557. 
 
 151. The sum of six thousand dollars per annum is hereby 
 appropriated for the formation and support of farmers' institutes 
 in this State; and the comptroller is hereby authorized to issue 
 his warrant annually upon the treasurer for the said sum of 
 money out of any fund not otherwise appropriated ; the said sum 
 shall be payable to the order of the Maryland agricultural college 
 on or after the first of October of each fiscal year, and the first 
 yearly payment shall be made during the fiscal year ending Sep- 
 tember 30, 1904. 
 
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 1896, ch. 102. 
 
 152. Accurate accounts of the expenditures of the money re- 
 ceived under this subtitle shall be kept by the registrar of the 
 Maryland agricultural college separate from the general college 
 accounts; and an itemized and detailed report of such expendi- 
 tures shall be made annually and published in such manner as 
 the board of trustees of the Maryland agricultural college shall 
 direct. 
 
 School Attendance. 
 
 153. Every child residing in Baltimore city, between 
 eight and fourteen years of age, shall attend some day school 
 regularly, as defined in Section 131 of this subtitle, during the 
 entire period of each year the public day schools in said city in 
 which said child resides are in session, unless it can be shown 
 that the child is elsewhere receiving regularly thorough instruc- 
 tions during said period in the studies usually taught in the 
 said public schools to children of the same age ; provided, that 
 the superintendent or principal of any school or person or per- 
 sons duly authorized by said superintendent or principal may 
 excuse cases of necessary absence among its enrolled pupils; 
 and provided further, that the provisions of this section shall 
 not apply to a child whose mental or physical condition is such 
 as to render its instruction as above described inexpedient or 
 impracticable. Every person having under his control a child 
 between eight and fourteen years of age shall cause such child 
 to attend school or receive instructions as required by this sec- 
 tion. Children over fourteen years of age and under the age 
 of sixteen years, and every person having under his control 
 such a child, shall be subject to the requirements of this section, 
 unless such children are regularly and lawfully employed to 
 labor at home or elsewhere. 
 
 154. Any person who has a child under his control and who 
 fails to comply with any of the provisions of the preceding 
 section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined 
 not exceeding five dollars for each offense. 
 
 155. Any person who induces or attempts to induce any 
 child to absent himself unlawfully from school, or employs or 
 
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 harbors while school is in session any child absent unlawfully 
 from school, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be 
 fined not more than fifty dollars. 
 
 156. The board of school commissioners of Baltimore city 
 shall appoint and may remove at pleasure one "chief attendance 
 officer, male or female," and in addition such number of at- 
 tendance officers, male or female, not exceeding eighteen, as it 
 may deem proper; their compensation shall be fixed and paid 
 by the mayor and city council of Baltimore. The board of school 
 commissioners of the several counties may appoint and may 
 remove at pleasure for their respective counties or any part 
 thereof such number of attendance officers, male or female, as 
 they may deem necessary or desirable, or fix their compensation 
 from the general school fund of the respective counties. 
 
 157. It shall be the duty of each attendance officer, and said 
 officer shall have full power within the city or county for which 
 he or she may be appointed, to arrest without warrant any child 
 between eight and sixteen years of age found away from his 
 home and who is a truant from school, or who fails to attend 
 school, in accordance with the provisions of this subtitle. The 
 said officer shall forthwith deliver a child so arrested either 
 to the custody of a person in parental relation to the child or to 
 the teacher from whose school such a child is then a truant ; but 
 if a child be a habitual or incorrigible truant, said officer shall 
 bring him before the magistrate for juvenile causes, or, in a 
 county where such court does not exist, before a justice of 
 the peace having jurisdiction, who may commit him to a paren- 
 tal school, as provided for in the next section, or to some other 
 suitable institution for children located in the State of Mary- 
 land, where no persons convicted of any crime or any offense 
 other than truancy shall or may be confined ; provided, however, 
 that such court or justice may in its or his discretion parole such 
 child instead of committing him as aforesaid. The attendance 
 officer shall promptly report every such arrest to the school 
 commissioners of the said city or county respectively or to such 
 person or persons as they may direct. 
 
 158. The mayor and city council of Baltimore and the several 
 boards of school commissioners for the counties may establish 
 
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 schools to be known as parental schools for children between 
 eight and sixteen years of age who are habitual truants from 
 school or from instruction ; the mayor and city council of Balti- 
 more may in its discretion establish such school or schools 
 either in Baltimore city or in one or more counties of the State. 
 Two or more boards of school commissioners of adjoining coun- 
 ties may in their discretion jointly establish a parental school 
 or schools for the joint use of the said counties, and said school 
 or schools may be established in any one of the said counties 
 so jointly acting. The mayor and city council of Baltimore 
 and the several boards of school commissioners for the counties 
 may also provide for the confinement, maintenance and instruc- 
 tion of such habitually truant children in the schools respectively 
 established by them as aforesaid, for such period and under such 
 rules and regulations as they may have respectively prescribed. 
 The magistrate for juvenile causes or justice of the peace having 
 jurisdiction may commit such habitually truant children to any 
 of the parental schools for the city or cpunty in which such 
 children may reside, but no person convicted of any crime or of 
 any such offense other than truancy shall be committed to any 
 such schools. 
 
 159. It shall be the duty of the police commissioners of Bal- 
 timore city, at the same time that the census of legal voters in 
 said city is taken under their direction, as provided by Section 18 
 of Article 33 of the code of public general laws, also to cause 
 to be made by the members of the force under their control 
 annually a separate record of the full name, age, color and sex 
 of every child between six and sixteen years of age in each pre- 
 cinct of the said city and the place where, and the year and month 
 when, such children last attended school, together with the name 
 and address of the parents, guardians or persons in parental rela- 
 tion and of employers of such children, which record shall be 
 furnished by said police commissioners to the board of school 
 commissioners of Baltimore city. Whosoever has under his con- 
 trol a child between said ages and withholds information in his 
 possession from any officer demanding it relating to the items 
 aforesaid, or makes any false statement in regard to the same, 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined not more 
 than twenty dollars. 
 
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 160. It shall be the duty of the principal or head teacher oi 
 every public or private school in this State to report immediately 
 to the school commissioners of the county where such school 
 is located, or of Baltimore city, if located therein, or to an at- 
 tendance officer or other official designated by such commission- 
 ers, the names of all children enrolled in his or her school who 
 have been absent or irregular in attendance three days, or their 
 equivalent, without lawful excuse, within a period of eight con- 
 secutive weeks. 
 
 161. Attendance officers may visit all establishments where 
 minors are employed in their several cities and counties and 
 ascertain whether any minors are employed therein contrary 
 to law. Attendance officers may require that the certificates 
 provided for in Article 100 of the code of public general laws of 
 Maryland relating to minors employed in such establishments 
 shall be produced for inspection. 
 
 161A. Any person violating any provisions of this subtitle 
 where no special provision as to the penalty for such violation 
 is made shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined 
 not exceeding fifty dollars for each offense. 
 
 162. Every child residing in any county in this State between 
 eight and fourteen years of age shall attend some day school 
 regularly, as defined in Section 131 of this subtitle, during such 
 consecutive period of each year, "in no case less than four 
 months," as shall be prescribed by the board of school commis- 
 sioners of the county in which the said child may reside, unless 
 it can be shown that such a child is elsewhere receiving regularly 
 thorough instruction during said period in the studies usually 
 taught in the public schools of the county to children of the 
 same age ; provided, that the superintendent or principal of any 
 school or person or persons duly authorized by such superin- 
 tendent or principal may excuse cases of necessary absence 
 among its enrolled pupils ; and provided, further, that the pro- 
 visions of this section shall not apply to children whose mental 
 or physical condition is such as to render instruction above de- 
 scribed inexpedient or impracticable. Every person having under 
 his control a child between eight and fourteen years of age 
 shall cause such child to attend school or receive instructions as 
 
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 required by this section. Children over fourteen years of age 
 and under the age of sixteen years and every person having 
 under his control such a child shall be subject to the require- 
 ments of this section, unless such children are regularly and law- 
 fully employed to labor at home or elsewhere; provided, how- 
 ever, that this section shall not apply to Baltimore city; pro- 
 vided, further, that this section shall apply only in those coun- 
 ties where the board of county school commissioners shall ap- 
 prove the same and appoint an attendance officer or attendance 
 officers for its enforcement as provided in this act. 
 
 163. And be it further enacted, that all offenses committed 
 against and all prosecutions begun under the provisions of 
 chapter 269 of the Acts of Assembly of 1902 prior to August 
 1, 1912, may and shall be prosecuted and punished under the 
 provisions of said chapter 269 of the Acts of 1902. Nothing in 
 this act shall be taken to apply to Howard, Kent, Anne Arundel, 
 Worcester, St. Mary's and Somerset counties, but the existing 
 laws which this law undertakes to repeal and re-enact shall re- 
 main in force so far as they now apply to the said Howard, 
 Kent, Anne Arundel, Worcester, St. Mary's and Somerset coun- 
 ties. 
 
 1906, ch. 236. 
 
 168. Every deaf or blind child between six and sixteen years 
 of age shall attend some school for the deaf or blind for eight 
 months, or during the scholastic year, unless it can be shown 
 that the child is elsewhere receiving regularly thorough instruc- 
 tion during the said period, in studies usually taught in the said 
 public schools to children of the same age; provided, that the 
 superintendent or principal of any school for the deaf or blind, 
 or person or persons duly authorized by such superintendent or 
 principal, may excuse cases of necessary absence among its 
 enrolled pupils ; and provided, further, that the provisions of 
 this section shall not apply to a child whose physical condition is 
 such as to render its instruction, as above described, inexpedient 
 or impracticable. Every person having under his or her con- 
 trol a child between six and sixteen years of age shall cause 
 such child to attend school or receive instruction as required by 
 this section. 
 
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 1906, ch. 236. 
 
 169. Provided, that where the parent, guardian or any other 
 person having control of a deaf or blind child is not financially 
 able to pay for the transportation of the child to and from such 
 school, the same shall be paid out of the State appropriation for 
 the school which the child attends ; provided, that three reputable 
 male citizens over the age of twenty-one years, residents of the 
 school district in which the said child resides, shall certify under 
 oath that to the best of their knowledge and belief the parent, 
 guardian, or other person having control of such child is not 
 financially able to pay the expense of the child to and from 
 school. 
 
 1906, ch. 236. 
 
 170. Any person who has such a child under his or her con- 
 trol, and who fails to comply with any of the provisions of the 
 preceding section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
 shall, upon conviction thereof before a justice of the peace, be 
 fined a sum not exceeding five dollars for each offense. 
 
 1906, ch. 236. 
 
 171. Any person who induces or attempts to induce any deaf 
 or blind child to absent himself or herself unlawfully from 
 school, or employs or harbors any such child absent unlaw- 
 fully from school, while said school is in session, shall be 
 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction 
 thereof before a justice of the peace, be fined a sum not ex- 
 ceeding fifty dollars for each offense. 
 
 1906, ch. 236. 
 
 172. The principal teacher of every public school in the coun- 
 ties and the truant officers of the city of Baltimore shall, within 
 thirty days from the beginning of the school year succeeding 
 the passage of this subtitle, furnish the board of county 
 school commissioners, or the board of education of Baltimore 
 city, as the case may be, with the names of all children who 
 are deaf, blind or feeble-minded, between the ages of six and 
 sixteen years, inclusive, living within the boundaries of his or 
 her school district who do not attend school. And the board 
 
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 of county school commissioners, or board of education of Bal- 
 timore city, shall certify forthwith the names of all such deaf, 
 blind or feeble-minded children to the respective principal of 
 the State schools for such children. 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 1904, ch. 584. 
 
 173. Wherever the word "examiner" occurs in this article it 
 shall be construed to mean "county superintendent" ; and wher- 
 ever the words "assistant examiner" occur they shall be con- 
 strued to mean "assistant county superintendent." 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 174. Schools on or near the dividing line of two counties shall 
 be free to the children of each county ; and the board of county 
 school commissioners of the respective counties shall have power 
 to provide jointly for the maintenance of said schools. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 175. Real and personal estate granted, conveyed, devised or 
 bequeathed for the use of any particular county or school dis- 
 trict shall be held in trust by the board of county school com- 
 missioners for the benefit of such county or school district, and 
 such grants and bequests shall be exempt from all State and 
 county taxes. 
 
 1872, ch. 377. 
 
 176. Moneys invested in trust for the benefit of the public 
 schools of any county or city shall be exempt from State, county 
 or local tax. 
 
 Maryland Agricultural College. 
 
 1904, ch. 537. 
 
 177. The board of trustees of the Maryland agricultural col- 
 lege shall be constituted as follows: There shall be eighteen 
 trustees, five of whom shall be elected by a majority of the 
 private stockholders of said college, in the manner now provided 
 by law, and the following six named persons shall represent the 
 
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 State interest in said board, namely, the governor, comptroller, 
 treasurer, president of the senate, speaker of the house of dele- 
 gates, and the attorney-general ; and the United States secre- 
 tary of agriculture shall be ex officio one of said board, and one 
 person from each of the congressional districts of this State who 
 shall be a practical farmer, or immediately interested in agri- 
 cultural pursuits, who shall be appointed by the governor, by 
 and with the consent of the senate, to be classified as follows : 
 Two for the term of two years, two for the term of four years, 
 and the remainder for the term of six years, all to date from the 
 first day of February, 1888, and thereafter the term of all such 
 appointments shall be for the term of six years, except that 
 appointments to fill vacancies occurring otherwise than by 
 expiration of term, shall be only for the unexpired portion of 
 the term so vacated. 
 
 1906, ch. 217. 
 
 177A. The assent of the State of Maryland is given to the pur- 
 poses of the grant made by act of congress, approved March 2, 
 1887, of the first session of the fifty-ninth congress, and the 
 Maryland agricultural experiment station, a department of the 
 Maryland agricultural college, is designated as the institution 
 entitled to receive the moneys appropriated for Maryland, and 
 the treasurer of the said institution is designated as the proper 
 person to receive the said appropriations. 
 
 1906, ch. 217. 
 
 177B. The assent of the State of Maryland to the grants of 
 money for the purposes, upon the terms and in accordance with 
 the several conditions and provisions contained in Section 177A 
 is hereby signified and expressed, and the secretary of the State 
 is directed to transmit a certified copy of said section to the 
 treasurer of the United States and to the secretary of agricul- 
 ture of the United States. 
 
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 FREE SCHOLARSHIPS. 
 
 ST. MARY'S FEMALE SEMINARY, ST. MARY'S COUNTY. 
 
 1898, ch. 379. 
 
 178. One scholar shall be taken from each of the counties and 
 each of the four legislative districts of Baltimore city, and shall 
 be selected by the county superintendent and boards of county 
 school commissioners of the respective counties, and the board 
 of commissioners of public schools in Baltimore city, for the 
 four legislative districts of said city, respectively, without re- 
 course to a competitive examination, so that the most worthy 
 and charitable may be selected ; each pupil as selected to remain 
 for the space of three years, if not dismissed by the trustees. 
 
 ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, ANNAPOLIS. 
 
 1878, ch. 315. 
 
 179. One scholar from each senatorial district of the State 
 shall be educated free of charge for tuition, board, fuel, lights and 
 washing, and shall be appointed by the board of county school 
 commissioners of the several counties and city of Baltimore, by 
 and with the advice and consent of the senator in their respective 
 counties and senatorial districts, after a competitive examina- 
 tion of the candidates for such appointments, who shall produce 
 before the said commissioners satisfactory evidence of their 
 moral character, and of their inability or the inability of their 
 parents or guardians to pay the regular college charges ; pro- 
 vided, that no one of the said appointments shall be held by the 
 same student for more than four years, unless the time of hold- 
 ing such appointment be extended by the faculty of the college, 
 and that each student receiving such appointment shall pledge 
 himself upon entering the college that he will continue a student 
 thereof for the full term of four years, unless prevented by un- 
 avoidable necessity, and that he will teach school within the 
 State for not less than two years immediately after leaving 
 college, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable. 
 
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 WESTERN MARYLAND COLLEGE, WESTMINSTER. 
 
 1898, ch. 106. 
 
 180. One male student from each senatorial district of the 
 State shall be educated free of charge for tuition, board, fuel, 
 lights and washing, and shall be appointed by the school com- 
 missioners in said senatorial district, by and with the advice 
 and consent of the senator in their respective senatorial dis- 
 tricts after a competitive examination of the candidates ; pro- 
 vided, that the said appointment shall not be held by the same 
 student for more than four years, and that each student receiv- 
 ing such appointment shall give his bond to the State of Mary- 
 land for such amount, with such security as may be approved of 
 by the president of said college, that he will teach school within 
 this State for not less than two years after leaving college. 
 
 1898, ch. 106. 
 
 181. One female student from each senatorial district of this 
 State shall be educated free of charge for board and tuition, and 
 shall be appointed by the school commissioners in said sena- 
 torial district, by and with the advice and consent of the senator 
 in their respective senatorial districts, after a competitive exami- 
 nation of the candidates ; provided, that the said appointment 
 shall not be held by the same student for more than four years, 
 and that each student receiving such appointment shall give 
 bond to the State of Maryland for such amount, with such 
 security as may be approved by the president of said college, 
 that she will teach school within the State for not less than two 
 years after leaving college. 
 
 MARYLAND INSTITUTE, BALTIMORE CITY. 
 
 1902, ch. 512. 
 
 182. One free scholar shall be received from each county of 
 the State and one from each legislative district of Baltimore city 
 to be selected by the school commissioners of the counties and 
 Baltimore city, respectively. 
 
 WASHINGTON COLLEGE. 
 
 1906, ch. 204. 
 
 185. The visitors and governors of Washington College may, 
 in their discretion, and in accordance with the provisions of Sec- 
 tions 11 and 12 of the original act of incorporation, of which 
 
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 this act is intended to be a supplement, authorizing the issuing 
 to the graduates of this department who may have satisfactorily 
 completed the prescribed course, and who have attained the age 
 which is now or may be hereafter prescribed for teachers, under 
 the public school law of Maryland, a certificate which, when 
 signed by the State board of education, shall authorize the said 
 graduate to teach for one year from the date thereof in any of 
 the public schools of the State, established under the authority 
 of the public school law of Maryland, and which said certificate, 
 at the expiration of one year, upon the recommendation of any 
 county superintendent of public schools, under whose super- 
 vision the graduate may have taught for eight months, shall be- 
 come a permanent diploma, authorizing the holder thereof to 
 teach in any of the public schools of the State, subject to the 
 approval and regulation of the State board of education, in the 
 manner governing diplomas issued by the other State normal 
 schools of this State. 
 
 1896, ch. 188. 
 
 186. The visitors and governors of this college shall supply 
 free tuition and books in the normal department to one indigent 
 female student from each county of the Eastern Shore of Mary- 
 land, and such student shall present a certificate of appointment 
 from the board of county school commissioners of the county 
 from which she comes, and that she is a graduate of a public 
 school, and that she enters the college for the purpose of qualify- 
 ing herself for a teacher in the public schools, and that she 
 intends to engage in teaching within this State ; and she shall 
 sign an agreement to pay said college the sum of twenty-five 
 dollars for each session she attends the normal department of 
 said college, should she fail to teach in the public schools of this 
 State, after having received a normal school education at said 
 college. 
 
 1896, ch. 188. 
 
 187. Any female graduate of any public school on the Eastern 
 Shore of Maryland shall have the privilege of competing for 
 appointment to said scholarship by filing her written application 
 to the board of county school commissioners for such appoint- 
 ment, together with a certificate that she is a graduate of a public 
 school of that county, and that she desires such scholarship for 
 the purpose of qualifying herself for a teacher in the public 
 
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 schools, and her intention to engage in the profession of teach- 
 ing within this State ; and in case any such scholar should, after 
 having received such normal school education, fail to fulfill the 
 conditions upon which she was admitted, she shall forfeit and 
 pay the sum of twenty-five dollars for each session she attended 
 the normal department of said college, to be collected as other 
 debts are collected, and to be applied for the benefit of the 
 normal department of said college. 
 
 1898, ch. 293. 
 
 188. The visitors and governors of Washington College are 
 authorized and directed to supply free tuition and free books to 
 one male or female student from each and every county on the 
 Western Shore of the State of Maryland, either in the normal or 
 collegiate department of said college. 
 
 1898, ch. 293. 
 
 189. Students wishing to secure the benefit of Sections 188 
 and 189 shall file a written application for such scholarship with 
 the board of county school commissioners of which county he is 
 a resident, together with a certificate of his or her good physical 
 health and good moral character; and said board of county 
 school commissioners shall cause all such applicants to be ex- 
 amined on such subjects or studies as the principal of Washing- 
 ton College may suggest, and shall make the appointment after 
 such competitive examination is held, and shall certify such 
 appointment to the principal of said college in writing. 
 
 1910. ch. 542, sec. 2; 1910, ch. 309, sec. 2. 
 
 189A. The sum of forty-five hundred dollars is annually ap- 
 propriated to Washington College, payable to said college upon 
 the warrant of the comptroller in quarterly instalments on the 
 first day of January, April, July and October of each year, in 
 consideration of which appropriation the visitors and governors 
 of said college shall educate -free of charge for board, room rent, 
 tuition and text-books, one male student from each senatorial dis- 
 trict of the Western Shore, who shall be appointed by the school 
 commissioners in each said senatorial district by and with the 
 advice and consent of the senator in said district, after a 
 competitive examination : provided, that the appointment shall 
 
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 not be held by the same student for more than four years and 
 that each student receiving such appointment shall give his 
 bond for such amount and with such security as may be ap- 
 proved by the president of said college that he will teach school 
 within the State of Maryland for not less than two years after 
 leaving college. 
 
 CHARLOTTE HALL SCHOOL. 
 
 1898, ch. 321. 
 
 190. Charlotte Hall School shall receive and give board and 
 tuition, free of charge, to at least one student from each legisla- 
 tive district of the State during each scholastic year after the first 
 day of September, in the year 1898, all such students to be 
 received subject to the rules and regulations of said school, and 
 subject to dismissal therefrom for cause, in the discretion of the 
 board of trustees thereof. 
 
 1898, ch. 321. 
 
 191. On or before the first day of September, in the year 1898, 
 the several boards of county school commissioners shall each 
 select one student from their respective counties, and the board 
 of commissioners of public schools of the city of Baltimore shall 
 select one student from each legislative district of Baltimore 
 city, all such selections to be made by competitive examinations 
 from among the youths who reside in the legislative districts for 
 which they are respectively chosen, and who are or have been 
 students in the public schools of such district, and the students 
 so selected shall be entitled to the scholarships above provided 
 for in Charlotte Hall School for terms of three years ; and when 
 the terms of such appointee, or any of them, have expired, or 
 for any cause a vacancy occurs, or vacancies occur, in said 
 scholarships, said respective board shall in like manner and 
 from like classes choose other students to fill such vacancy or 
 vacancies. 
 
 State Normal School No. 3. 
 
 1908, ch. 599. 
 
 193. There shall be located in the city of Baltimore or else- 
 where (if the board of education deem best) a State normal 
 school for the instruction and practice of colored teachers in the 
 
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 science of education, the art of teaching and the mode of govern- 
 ing schools, to be known as State normal school No. 3 ; the said 
 school shall be under the control of the State board of education, 
 who shall appoint the principal and necessary assistants; and 
 the faculty shall consist of a principal and as many teachers as 
 the board shall appoint. The sessions of the school shall be 
 determined by the State board of education who shall pre- 
 scribe the curriculum of study, which, however, shall include 
 courses for the special preparation of instructors for teaching the 
 elements of agrieulture and mechanic arts, provide necessary 
 quarters, supplies and apparatus, fix the qualification for admis- 
 sion as students, the salary of the principal, assistant teachers 
 and employes. 
 
 ARTICLE XLIII. 
 
 (CODE OF 1912.) 
 
 HEALTH. 
 
 59. No teacher in any of the public schools of this State shall 
 receive into such school, as a pupil, any person who has not been 
 successfully vaccinated ; and it shall be the duty of all teachers in 
 the public schools, within ten days after the beginning of the fall 
 term of said schools, and thereafter as new pupils shall enter 
 such school, to ascertain and enroll on the vaccine register of 
 said school the names of those pupils who may produce a certi- 
 ficate of a regular practicing physician of the county or city, as 
 the case may be, certifying that the pupil has been successfully 
 vaccinated, and also the names of those pupils who have been 
 enrolled at any previous term in any school of the county or in 
 the city of Baltimore, as the case may be, as successfully vacci- 
 nated pupils, whenever any such pupil shall present a certificate 
 of such enrollment from the teacher of any such school. If any 
 person shall apply for admission as a pupil in any of the public 
 schools of this State who has not been successfully vaccinated, 
 the teacher shall give the parents or guardian or other person 
 having control of such pupil an order directed to any physician 
 in the county or city, as the case may be, and requiring any 
 regular physician to whom it may be presented to vaccinate 
 
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 such pupil and return a certificate of such vaccination when suc- 
 cessful to the teacher giving such order. The county commis- 
 sioners of the several counties and the mayor and city council of 
 Baltimore city, as the case may be, shall pay or cause to be paid 
 to the physician performing the service on such order the sum 
 of fifty cents for every such successful vaccination on the pre- 
 sentation of the order and certification of the teacher that such 
 vaccination has been performed ; provided, that in the counties 
 or in the city of Baltimore, when vaccine physicians are ap- 
 pointed or contracts made with certain physicians by the proper 
 authorities for the vaccination of all children or persons who 
 may apply free of charge to the person applying, the provisions 
 of this section providing for the payment of physicians' certified 
 orders of teachers shall not apply. Any teacher neglecting or 
 refusing to comply with the provisions of this section shall, on 
 conviction thereof, before any justice of the peace having juris- 
 diction over said offense, be fined ten dollars for each and every 
 offense. And no public school trustee or commissioner shall 
 grant any permit to any person who has not been successfully 
 vaccinated to enter as a pupil any public school under the same 
 penalty. 
 
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 Act Providing For Maryland State Normal School 
 Building Commission. 
 
 1910, ch. 352. 
 
 An act to provide for the appointment of a commission to 
 select and obtain an option upon a lot of land in the vicinity of 
 Baltimore or elsewhere in this State, and for the preparation of 
 tentative plans and estimates for the erection thereon by the State 
 of Maryland of suitable buildings to be used by the Maryland 
 State normal school, now located in the city of Baltimore, and to 
 provide for an appropriation of money therefor. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- 
 land, That a special commission be and the same is hereby con- 
 stituted, to be known as "The Maryland State Normal School 
 Building Commission." Said commission to consist of the gov- 
 ernor of the State, the comptroller of the treasury, the State 
 treasurer, the State superintendent of public education, the prin- 
 cipal of the Maryland State normal school,, Honorable J. Charles 
 Linthicum, Honorable John S. Biddison, Honorable W. Mitchell 
 Digges, and Honorable Carville D. Benson. The members of 
 said commission shall continue in office until the work for which 
 it is established, as herein set forth, shall have been completed ; 
 provided, however, that the governor shall have the power, in 
 his discretion, to remove any member thereof or to fill any 
 vacancy caused by death, resignation, or otherwise. This com- 
 mission shall meet within sixty days after the passage of this 
 act and organize by the election of a secretary, who may be one 
 of its members. It shall be the duty of said secretary to keep 
 an accurate record of all acts, orders, or transactions of the com- 
 mission and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by 
 the commission and shall receive such salary as said commission 
 
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 may think proper, not in excess of five hundred dollars per 
 annum. The members of said commission, except the secre- 
 tary, shall serve without compensation, and the sum of one 
 thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 
 hereby appropriated out of the ordinary receipts of the treasury 
 for each of the years of 1910 and 1911 to defray the necessary ex- 
 penses of said commission or its members in attending to their 
 duties as such ; and the comptroller is hereby authorized to draw 
 his warrant, on the receipt of the draft of the chairman of said 
 commission, upon the treasurer of the State in favor of the sec- 
 retary of said commission for such sum or sums as may be 
 necessary not in excess of one thousand dollars for each of the 
 years of 1910 and 1911 as aforesaid. It shall be the further duty 
 of the secretary to keep an accurate account of all moneys re- 
 ceived and expended and make a report of same annually or at 
 such other time as the commission may direct. He shall also 
 give bond for the safe-keeping of all moneys or records belonging 
 to the commission in such sum as said commission may require. 
 The office or meeting place of said commission may be that of 
 the State board of education at Annapolis, at the normal school 
 building in Baltimore, or elsewhere. 
 
 Section 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of 
 the commission created by this act to select and obtain an option 
 for the State of Maryland upon a suitable site and to have pre- 
 pared tentative plans and estimates for the necessary buildings 
 for new normal school buildings, which shall include dormitories 
 for the students of the Maryland State normal school, now 
 located in the city of Baltimore ; and the commission is hereby 
 given authority to perform all acts necessary to accomplish this 
 purpose. 
 
 Section 3. The work of the commission created by this act 
 shall be completed as soon as feasible; provided, however, that 
 the date of completion shall not be later than November 1, 1911, 
 and the aggregate and total expenditure of said commission for 
 said purpose shall not exceed nor shall it incur any obligation 
 for any amount in excess of the appropriations. 
 
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 Section 4. And be it enacted by the General Assembly of 
 Maryland, That this act shall take effect from the date of its 
 passage. 
 
 Approved the 13th day of April, 1910. 
 
 AUSTIN L. C'ROTHERS, 
 Governor. 
 
 A. P. GORMAN, JR., 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 ADAM PEEPLES, 
 Speaker of the House of Delegates. 
 
 The above approval was with the exception of the item con- 
 tained in Section 1 of the above bill, to wit: "the sum of one 
 thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary is 
 hereby appropriated out of the ordinary receipts of the treasury 
 for each of the years of 1910 and 1911 to defray the necessary ex- 
 penses of said commission or its members in attending to their 
 duties as such," which provision or item is approved to the 
 extent of the appropriation of $500 or so much thereof as may 
 be necessary for the year 1910, and is disapproved to the extent 
 of $500 for said year, and is further disapproved with respect to 
 the said appropriation of $1000 for the year 1911. 
 
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 Bond Issue for New Normal School. 
 
 CHAPTER 776 ACTS 1912. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- 
 land, That the Board of Public Works is hereby authorized and 
 directed to issue a loan in the sum of six hundred thousand dol- 
 lars ($600,000) for the purchase of land and the erection and 
 construction of buildings, including dormitories for students, 
 for the Maryland State normal school. 
 
 Section 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- 
 land, That for the purpose of providing for the expenditures to 
 be incurred in the purchase of the necessary land and the erec- 
 tion and construction of buildings, including dormitories for 
 students, for the Maryland State normal school, by the Mary- 
 land State Normal School Building Commission, hereinafter 
 named, a loan is hereby created to be called the Maryland State 
 normal school loan to the amount of six hundred thousand 
 dollars ($600,000) ; said loan shall bear date as follows: Three 
 hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) to be known as Series A, 
 January 1, 1913 ; three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) to be 
 known as Series B, July 1, 1913, and shall bear interest at a rate 
 to be fixed by the governor, the comptroller, and the treasurer 
 of this State, or a majority of them, not to exceed four per cent. 
 (4%) per annum, payable on the first day of January and July 
 of each year, and the said loan and every part thereof and the 
 interest payable thereon shall be and remain exempt from State, 
 county, and municipal taxation, and the principal amount of said 
 loan shall be payable fifteen (15) years after date of said respec- 
 tive series, but shall be redeemable at the pleasure of the State of 
 Maryland after ten (10) years from date of issue. 
 
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 Section 3. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of 
 Maryland, That the governor, comptroller and treasurer, or a 
 majority of them, are hereby authorized, empowered and directed 
 to have prepared proper certificates of indebtedness of the State, 
 in good and sufficient form, to aggregate the amount of six hun- 
 dred thousand dollars ($600,000), as evidence of said loan; such 
 certificates of indebtedness shall bear dates as provided in Section 
 2 of this act ; said bonds to be issued in any denomination not 
 less than one hundred dollars ($100) or greater than one thou- 
 sand dollars ($1,000), as may be determined by the governor, 
 comptroller and treasurer, or a majority of them ; each of said 
 certificates shall be signed by the treasurer of the State and 
 countersigned by the comptroller and shall bear interest not ex- 
 ceeding four per cent. (4%) per annum, payable on the first days 
 of January and July of each year ; such portion of said certificates 
 shall be registered, and such portions shall have interest coupons 
 attached thereto, as the governor, treasurer and comptroller, or 
 a majority of them, may determine. 
 
 Section 4. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of 
 Maryland, That in order to provide for the selling of certificates 
 of indebtedness aforesaid, to be issued under the provisions of 
 this act, the governor, comptroller of the treasury, and treasurer 
 of this State, or a majority of them, are hereby directed to 
 advertise twice a week for four successive weeks, between the 
 dates of December 1, 1912, and January 1, 1913, and a like notice 
 between the dates of June 1, 1913, and July 1, 1913, in two news- 
 papers published in the city of Baltimore, that the treasurer of 
 this State will be in readiness between the first and fifteenth days 
 of January, 1913, and the first and fifteenth days of July, 1913, to 
 receive bids at such place or places as may be named in said 
 respective advertisements for bonds or certificates of indebted- 
 ness issued under the provisions of this act, under such regula- 
 tions as may be made in the discretion of the governor, comp- 
 troller and treasurer, or a majority of them, and the accrued in- 
 terest between the date of the bonds or certificates and the time 
 of sale and delivery of and the payment for said bonds and 
 certificates shall be adjusted with the purchaser or purchasers 
 thereunder such regulations as may be made in the discretion of 
 the governor, comptroller and treasurer, or a majority of them, 
 
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 and upon the day mentioned in said advertisement as the day 
 for opening the bids for the proposals thereby called for they 
 shall receive such sealed proposals for the purchase of as many 
 such certificates of indebtedness as may be designated in said 
 advertisements, and on the opening of such sealed proposals as 
 many of said certificates of indebtedness as have been so bid for 
 shall be awarded by the governor, comptroller and treasurer, or 
 a majority of them, and when two or more bidders have made 
 the same bid, and such bid is the highest, and the certificates so 
 bid for by the highest responsible bidders are in excess of the 
 whole amount of the certificates of indebtedness shall be awarded 
 to such highest responsible bidders bidding the same price in 
 ratable proportion, and if any insufficient price be bid for them, 
 they may be subsequently disposed of under the direction of the 
 governor, comptroller and treasurer, or a majority of them, at 
 private sale upon the best terms they can obtain for same ; pro- 
 vided, that in no event shall more than twelve hundred dollars 
 ($1200) per acre be paid for such real estate as may be purchased 
 under the provisions of this act. 
 
 Section 5. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of 
 Maryland, That the sum of two thousand dollars ($2000), or so 
 much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of 
 the ordinary receipts of the treasurer for the expense of engrav- 
 ing, printing and advertising as above mentioned. 
 
 Section 6. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of 
 Maryland, That the county commissioners for the respective 
 counties of this State, and the mayor and city council of Balti- 
 more, are hereby required and directed to levy the State taxes 
 for the year nineteen hundred and thirteen (1913)at three-fourths 
 of 'one cent on each one hundred dollars ($100) of its assessable 
 property, and annually thereafter at three-fourths of one cent 
 on each onejiundred dollars ($100) of assessable property, to be 
 collected according to law to meet the interest and create a sink- 
 ing fund for the redemption of "The Maryland State Normal 
 School Loan," created under the provisions of this act. 
 
 Section 7. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of 
 Maryland, That the treasurer of the State on the warrant of the 
 comptroller shall pay the said sum or sums of money herein ap- 
 
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 propriated for the object and purpose herein specified to or upon 
 the order of "The Maryland State Normal School Building Com- 
 mission," which is hereby constituted as follows : The governor 
 of the State, the comptroller of the treasury, the State treasurer, 
 the State superintendent of public instruction, the principal of 
 the Maryland State normal school, Honorable J. Charles Linthi- 
 cum, Honorable John S. Biddison, Honorable W. Mitchell 
 Digges, Honorable Carville D. Benson, Honorable Peter J. 
 Campbell, Honorable Albert M. Sproesser and Honorable An- 
 drew J. Cummings, said commission as above constituted, with 
 the addition of the names of Honorable Peter J. Campbell, Hon- 
 orable Albert M. Sproesser, Andrew J. Cummings, being a con- 
 tinuation and perpetuation of the commission as created by 
 chapter 352 of the Acts of 1910. 
 
 Section 8. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of 
 Maryland, That "The Maryland State Normal School Building 
 Commission" aforesaid be and they are hereby authorized, em- 
 powered and directed to purchase such tract or tracts of land as 
 the said "The Maryland State Normal School Building Commis- 
 sion" deem suitable as a location for the Maryland State normal 
 school, and they shall immediately cause to be prepared plans 
 and specifications for such new buildings as they may deem 
 necessary for the uses and purposes of the said Maryland State 
 normal school, and said plans and specifications shall include 
 dormitories for students ; after said plans and specifications shall 
 have been duly accepted and approved the said "The Maryland 
 State Normal School Building Commission" shall proceed forth- 
 with to enter upon the erection, construction and equipment of 
 said buildings, the contract for which shall be awarded to the 
 lowest responsible bidder, after proper advertisement, the said 
 the Maryland State Normal School Building Commission reserv- 
 ing to themselves the right to reject any and all bids. 
 
 Section 9. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of 
 Maryland, That the members of the Maryland State Normal 
 School Building Commission aforesaid shall receive no com- 
 pensation for their services as such, but all proper expenses of 
 the said commission or its members in carrying into effect the 
 provisions of this act shall be payable out of the funds to be 
 provided by tjie loan herein authorized. 
 
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 Section 10. Be. it further enacted by the General Assembly 
 of Maryland, That "The Maryland State Normal School Build- 
 ing Commission" aforesaid be and the same is hereby authorized 
 empowered and directed to sell the property located at the corner 
 of Lafayette and Carrollton avenues, in Baltimore city, now used 
 by the Maryland State normal school, the cash proceeds from 
 which shall be paid directly to the Maryland State Normal 
 School Building Commission aforesaid, to be disbursed by said 
 commission for the purposes herein enumerated. 
 
 Section 11. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly 
 of Maryland, That this act shall take effect from the date of its 
 passage. 
 
 NOTE The Omnibus Loan of 1914 included an item of $225,000 additional 
 for the construction of buildings for the Maryland State Normal School, 
 same to be paid to the Maryland State Normal School Building Commission 
 created by ch. 352, Acts 1910, and perpetuated and enlarged by ch. 776, Acts 
 1912, and expended by said Commission in the same manner and under the 
 same restrictions as the funds made available by the foregoing Acts. 
 
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 MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. 
 CHAPTER 1651914. 
 
 AN ACT to provide for the medical examination of school chil- 
 dren and the promotion of their health. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- 
 land, That the Board of County School Commissioners of any 
 County in the State, may, in its discretion, appoint one or more 
 school physicians and assign one to any public school within the 
 limits of such County, and shall provide such school physicians, 
 when so appointed, with proper facilities for the performance of 
 their duties, as hereinafter provided. 
 
 SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That school physicians appointed 
 as outlined in Section 1 shall be physicians legally qualified to 
 practice medicine in this State who have had at least two years' 
 experience in the practice of their profession. 
 
 SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That every school physician so 
 appointed shall make a prompt examination of all children re- 
 ferred to him, as hereinafter provided, and such further examina- 
 tion of teachers, janitors and school buildings, as in his opinion 
 the protection of the health of the pupils may require. He shall 
 return promptly to the authorities appointing him, on blanks fur- 
 nished as hereinafter provided, the results of his examinations. 
 
 SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the superintendent, principal 
 or teacher of any school to which a school physician has been 
 assigned, as hereinafter provided, shall refer to such physician 
 every child returning to school without a permit from the health 
 officer or Board of Health, after absence on account of illness or 
 from unknown cause, and every child attending such school, who 
 appears to be in ill health, or is suspected to be sick with any 
 contagious or infectious disease, unless such child is immediately 
 excluded from school, under the provisions of the general statutes 
 or the sanitary regulations in force in said town or district ; pro- 
 vided, that in the case of schools in remote and isolated locations 
 the school authorities may make such other arrangements as may 
 be advisa'ble to carry out the purposes of this Act. 
 
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 SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the Board of County School 
 Commissioners of any County, which has appointed one or more 
 school physicians, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, 
 shall cause every child attending the public schools therein to be 
 separately and carefully tested and examined at least once in 
 every two years to ascertain whether such child is suffering with 
 defective sight or hearing, or from any other physical disability 
 tending to prevent such child from receiving the full benefit of 
 school work, or requiring a modification of such school work, 
 in order to prevent injury to the child, or to secure the best edu- 
 cational results ; and the school authorities may establish special 
 classes for these defective children, and may employ additional 
 teachers for this purpose. 
 
 SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That notice of the disease and de- 
 fects, if any, from which any child is found by such school physi- 
 cian to be suffering, shall be given to the parent or guardian of 
 such child with such advice relating thereto as said physician 
 may deem advisable, and whenever any child shows symptoms of 
 any contagious or infectious disease, notice shall also be given to 
 the health officer or Board of Health, and such child may be ex- 
 cluded from attendance at such school, in accordance with the 
 provisions of the general statutes or the sanitary regulations in 
 force in the town or district. Visiting nurses may also be em- 
 ployed to visit the parents to assist in securing the medical atten- 
 tion required. 
 
 SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the school physicians shall be 
 paid for the services rendered, such amount as the school authori- 
 ties shall deem proper and sufficient under the particular cir- 
 cumstances, and shall pay the same from the general funds in 
 their hands, such compensation not to exceed $2.00 per hour 
 actually given to examination in the schools. 
 
 SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the State Superintendent of 
 Public Education shall prescribe, after consultation with the 
 State Board of Health, the directions for tests of sight and hear- 
 ing, and shall prescribe for the school authorities of the State 
 suitable rules of instruction, test cards, blanks, record books, and 
 other useful appliances for carrying out the purposes of this Act. 
 
 SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That no person suffering from any 
 communicable disease shall be employed as teacher or janitor in 
 
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 any public school in this State. At the opening of each annual 
 term teachers must furnish a health certificate from a registered 
 physician, addressed to the Superintendent of Schools, certifying 
 that they are not suffering from tuberculosis or other com- 
 municable disease. 
 
 SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the State Board of Educa- 
 tion shall provide for pupils in the normal schools suitable in- 
 struction and practice for testing the sight and hearing of school 
 children. 
 
 SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That the expenses incurred under 
 the provisions of this Act, shall be paid in the same manner as 
 the ordinary expenses for the support of schools in the several 
 Counties of the State. 
 
 SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts in 
 conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed in so 
 far as they are in conflict herewith. 
 
 SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect 
 July 1st, 1914. 
 
 Approved April 14, 1914. 
 
 SCHOOL SURVEY. 
 CHAPTER 8441914. 
 
 AN ACT to create a Commission to conduct a survey of the 
 public schools, normal schools and the State-aided ele- 
 mentary and secondary schools and the higher educational 
 institutions of the State of Maryland ; to endow said Com- 
 mission with all the necessary powers to carry out the pur- 
 poses of this Act ; to appropriate a sum of money for the ex- 
 penses of said Commission. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
 State of Maryland, That the Governor of the State of Maryland 
 be and he is hereby authorized and empowered and direct to 
 appoint a Commission of three members to make a survey of the 
 public schools, normal schools, the elementary and secondary 
 schools, the academies and colleges, agricultural and professional 
 and other higher institutions of learning, receiving aid from the 
 State of Maryland, to study the administration of the said insti- 
 
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 tutions, to consider the appropriations made therefor, to investi- 
 gate the use of the funds so appropriated, to study the educa- 
 tional system of the State of Maryland, and said commission is 
 hereby directed to report its findings, with recommendations to 
 the Governor; which report shall be transmitted by the Gover- 
 nor to the General Assembly at its session of 1916. 
 
 SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That no member of such 
 Commission shall be compensated for his services, but each mem- 
 ber shall be paid his necessary traveling expenses incurred in 
 attending meetings or in performing other duties incidental to the 
 work of the Commission. 
 
 SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Commission shall 
 have the power to arrange the organization and equipment of the 
 survey in such manner as may seem to it best, employ and fix 
 the compensation of investigators and other employees required 
 for the efficient conduct of the work, and call to its assistance 
 any expert help that may he available either from public or 
 private foundations. It shall have power to purchase books, maps 
 and oher helps required, prepare and print blanks for information 
 or guidance of its work, and in general make any provisions for 
 the work that may be necessary. 
 
 SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Commission shall 
 have the use of the office and officers of the State Board of Edu- 
 cation so far as this may be necessary; shall have free access to 
 all public records necessary to the carrying out of the duties 
 herein prescribed ; and all school commissioners, superintendents, 
 teachers and other officers connected with the school system or 
 with any elementary, secondary, or normal school, or any other 
 educational institution receiving State aid, shall give such assist- 
 ance to the Commission as may be required of it. 
 
 SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thou- 
 sand dollars ($5,000) is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in 
 the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated to be paid by the 
 Treasurer of Maryland on the warrant of the Comptroller to such 
 person as the Commission may designate as its treasurer in 
 quarterly installments, beginning with the first day of October, 
 1914. 
 
 SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall tako 
 effect from the date of its passage. 
 
 Approved April 16, 1914. 
 
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 MARYLAND STATE UNIVERSITY. 
 CHAPTER 1981914. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- 
 land, That a seminary of learning, by the name of the "Mary- 
 land State University," be, and is hereby, created and established 
 in this State; that Phillips Lee Goldsborough, Governor of the 
 State of Maryland; Emerson C. Harrington, Comptroller of the 
 Treasury of the State of Maryland; M. Bates Stephens, State 
 Superintendent of Education ; Jesse D. Price, Peter J. Campbell, 
 William W. Beck, Edward M. Hammond, Arthur P. Gorman, J. 
 Frank Harper, Carville D. Benson, James McC. Trippe, Lloyd 
 Wilkinson, Andrew J. Cummings, Roscoe Jones, James A. Mc- 
 Quade, James A. Dawkins, David J. Mclntosh, Jr., Noble L. 
 Mitchell, Thomas Fell, Robert Moss, James W. Cain, James 
 Alfred Pearce, Thomas H. Lewis, Joshua W. Miles, James Earle 
 Maloy, Randolph Winslow, Thomas A. Ashby, Henry Stock- 
 bridge, Wm. T. Rawles, Timothy A. Heatwole, Philemon H. 
 Tuck, Charles Caspari, Jr., Joseph H. Branham, Frederick Crow- 
 triers, William F. Lockwood, John W. Chambers, Omer F. Her- 
 shey, George Moore Brady, J. Walter Engler, Edward C. Bixler 
 and William Milnes Maloy, their associates and successors shall 
 be, and are hereby constituted and declared to be a corporation 
 and body politic forever, by and under the name of the Maryland 
 State University, and as such shall be entitled to and shall pos- 
 sess, use and enjoy all and singular the general powers provided 
 for corporations formed under the general incorporation laws of 
 this State in so far as the same are or may become applicable to 
 such an educational corporation as is by this Act created; and 
 any ten or more of the above incorporators may meet and accept 
 this charter and organize hereunder, provided each incorporator 
 shall have been given at least three days' notice of said meeting. 
 
 SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That no member of the 
 governing body or professor or lecturer, instructor, tutor or 
 student of said University shall ever be required to hold or pro- 
 fess any particular religious belief or opinions as a test of office 
 or for admission to any of the privileges, honors or degrees of 
 said University. 
 
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 SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the governing Board 
 of the said University shall be its Board of Regents, which shall 
 consist of His Excellency, the Governor of Maryland, ex-officio ; 
 the Honorable the Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland, ex- 
 officio ; the State Superintendent of Education, ex-officio ; six per- 
 sons to be appointed by the Governor of the State of Maryland, 
 none of whom shall be connected with any of the affiliated in- 
 stitutions of the University, one of said six persons being from 
 each of the six Congressional Districts of the State ; two of which 
 six persons shall hold office for a term of two years from the first 
 Monday in May next succeeding their appointment and until 
 their successors shall qualify ; two of which six persons shall hold 
 office for a term of four years from the first Monday in May next 
 succeeding their appointment and until their successors shall 
 qualify; two of which six persons shall hold office for a term of 
 six years from the first Monday in May next succeeding their 
 appointment and until their successors shall qualify ; the Gover- 
 nor shall, at the time of making said appointments, designate 
 the term of years of each o said six persons when first appointed 
 under this charter; the term of office of said six members after 
 the expiration of the term for which first appointed, shall be a 
 term of six years, and to take the places of the members of the 
 said Board whose terms of office shall so expire, the Governor 
 shall, every two years, after 1914, before the first Monday in May 
 in such years, appoint two persons as members of said Board of 
 Regents to serve for terms of six years from the first Monday in 
 May next succeeding their appointment and until their successors 
 shall qualify ; said persons shall be of high character, integrity 
 and capacity ; in case of a vacancy among said six members by 
 death, resignation, disqualification or otherwise, the Governor 
 shall fill such vacancy ; that in addition to the above the Board of 
 Regents shall consist of two representatives from each of the 
 institutions affiliated with said University, which affiliated in- 
 stitutions shall be entitled to change such representatives, when- 
 ever the governing body of such affiliated institution shall see 
 fit; provided that such changes be always made so as to take 
 effect on the first Monday in May in each year ; that the govern- 
 ing body of any instituton so changing its representative shall 
 
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 always designate whom the newly appointed representative is to 
 succeed ; and that for the first year and until their successors shall 
 have been chosen and shall have qualified the following persons 
 shall be the representatives on the Board of Regents of the vari- 
 ous affiliated institutions with which they are associated, viz: 
 
 James Alfred Pearce and James W. Cain, representing Wash- 
 ington College; 
 
 Robert Moss and Thomas Fell, representing St. John's College ; 
 
 Randolph Winslow and Philemon H. Tuck, representing the 
 University of Maryland; 
 
 Thomas H. Lewis and Joshua W. Miles, representing the West- 
 ern Maryland College; 
 
 William F. Lockwood and John W. Chambers, representing 
 the College of Physicians and Surgeons ; 
 
 Joseph H. Branham and Frederick Crowthers, representing the 
 Maryland Medical College : 
 
 Edward C. Bixler and J. Walter Engler, representing Blue 
 Ridge College ; 
 
 SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said Board of 
 Regents shall elect a Provost who shall be the executive head of 
 the University and who shall be, ex-officio, a member of the 
 Board of Regents; the Governor of Maryland shall be, ex-officio, 
 Chairman of the Board of Regents, but said Board shall have 
 power to choose from among the members a Vice-Ohairman who 
 shall act in the absence of the Governor. 
 
 SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for 
 the said Maryland State University to enter into any contract, 
 articles of agreement or mutual ordinances or statutes with any 
 existing or hereafter created college, university, conservatory, 
 institute, technical, professional, military or agricultural school, 
 or other similar institution, and to affiliate said institution with 
 the said university under such terms as may to the respective 
 governing bodies of the said institution and of the said Maryland 
 State University seem meet and proper; it shall be lawful for 
 the said Maryland State University to enter into any contract, 
 articles of agreement, or mutual ordinances or statutes with any 
 existing or hereafter created hospital, infirmary laboratory, home, 
 
90 PUBLIC SCHOOL LAWS 
 
 asylum, or similar institution with any normal school, school of 
 pedagogy, institute of art and design, library, or other institu- 
 tion of a similar character, the terms of contract between the 
 said Maryland State University and the said contracting institu- 
 tions to be such as the governing bodies of the several contract- 
 ing institutions may deem meet and proper; provided, always, 
 that the terms of alliance and contract be not repugnant to the 
 form of government or to the laws of this State ; that the affilia- 
 tion with the said University of any other institution shall not be 
 held to deprive such institution of any of its corporate rights, 
 privileges or franchises under its charter and the supplements 
 thereto, nor in any way injuriously to affect or impair the same, 
 nor vest in the said University the right or title to any of the 
 property of any such other institution. 
 
 SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty 
 of the said Board of Regents to provide for a closer relation be- 
 tween the High Schools of the State and the colleges affiliated 
 under this charter, and also between the said colleges and pro- 
 fessional schools constituting the University. 
 
 SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Maryland State 
 University shall have power to pass by-laws for its own govern- 
 ment, to name its own officers and employes and fix their duties 
 and compensations, and shall have power to establish, ordain, 
 promulgate and publish by-laws, rules, regulations and ordi- 
 nances, respecting the requirements for admission and gradua- 
 tion ; and all matters that are susceptible of and which it is desir- 
 able should be governed by general regulations shall be within 
 the province of the Maryland State University. 
 
 SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for 
 the said University to receive, and it is hereby empowered to re- 
 ceive, by gift, grant, bequest or devise, or by Federal, State or 
 municipal appropriation, land, money, property or other things of 
 value and to hold or expend such gifts, grants, bequests, devises 
 or appropriations of money or property for the purpose to fur- 
 ther which said University is in this Act created. 
 
 SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That in case any land, 
 money, property or other thing of value has been or may here- 
 after be given for any specific object or purpose to the said Uni- 
 versity or to any of the colleges, schools, or other institutions 
 
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 affiliated with it, the same shall be treated as in the nature of a 
 trust, and shall not be used, disposed of, or diverted to any pur- 
 pose other than that indicated and authorized by the donor. 
 
 SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the said University 
 shall have power to hold convocations of the faculties of the 
 affiliated institutions and other learned persons for the discussion 
 and furtherance of education and, the special matters committed 
 to it ; to hold a public commencement or commencements at such 
 times and place as it may ordain ; and upon the completion of the 
 course or courses of study in any department of said University, 
 in accordance with the conditions and requirements thereof for 
 such department, and upon the recommendation of the appro- 
 priate faculty, the University shall have power to confer the cus- 
 tomary and appropriate academic degree ; and upon the diplomas 
 of any of its affiliated institutions it shall, upon the application of 
 said offiliated institution, impose the seal of the University, at- 
 tested by the proper officer or officers, if the requirements for ad- 
 missions and graduation shall have been met; that by a three- 
 fourth vote the Board of Regents may confer appropriate degrees 
 honoris causa for eminent achievements in letters, science or for 
 professional attainments. 
 
 SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That in case any affiliated 
 institutions shall at any time in the estimation of the Board of 
 Regents fail to abide by and perform the agreements and under- 
 takings by it entered into, the said Board of Regents may with- 
 hold its seal from any diploma of such affiliated institution, and 
 may at its option declare the agreement of affiliation terminated 
 at the close of the next scholastic year; provided, that the affi- 
 liated institution shall have been notified in writing as to the mat- 
 ter in respect of which it has so failed to keep its said agreement 
 and shall have been given an opportunity to present its defense 
 thereto to the said Board of Regents at a meeting to be held not 
 later than 30 days nor more than 60 days subsequent to such 
 notice. 
 
 SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take 
 effect from the date of its passage. 
 
 Approved April 16, 1914. 
 
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 OCEAN CITY EDUCATION BUILDING. 
 CHAPTER 2271914. 
 
 AN ACT to provide for the erection and equipment of a public 
 school building at Ocean City in Worcester County by joint 
 appropriation by the State of Maryland and the County Com- 
 missioners of Worcester County and the furnishing and 
 donation of the site therefor by the Mayor and City Council 
 of Ocean City. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- 
 land, That the President of the State Board of Education, the 
 State Superintendent of Public Education, the .President and 
 County Superintendent of the Board of County School Commis- 
 sioners of Worcester County, and a fifth person to be selected by 
 a majority of the four above-mentioned be and they are created 
 a Commission to be called the Ocean City School Building Com- 
 mission, to serve without further compensation. 
 
 SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the County Commis- 
 sioners of Worcester County be and they are hereby authorized 
 and directed to appropriate and levy for the purposes hereinafter 
 mentioned the sum of two thousand dollars for the use of and 
 subject to the order of the said Ocean City School Building Com- 
 mission in connection with the State appropriation hereinafter made. 
 
 SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty- 
 five thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated out 
 of any money in the Treasury of the State of Maryland, not 
 otherwise appropriated, said sum to be used in connection with 
 the appropriation hereinbefore provided for by the County Com- 
 missioners of Worcester County, in the erection and equipment 
 of a public school building at some suitable place in Ocean City 
 in Worcester County to be by said Ocean City School Commis- 
 sion approved, provided the same be furnished and donated by 
 the Mayor and City Council of Ocean City ; and for that purpose 
 the said Mayor and City Council are hereby clothed with the 
 power to condemn sufficient grounds for such purpose irr the 
 manner that said municipality is now authorized to condemn 
 grounds for public highways, if said Mayor and City Council of 
 
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 Ocean City cannot agree on a price therefor with the owner or 
 owners of the site selected, and said Mayor and City Council of 
 Ocean City are authorized and empowered to appropriate and 
 levy a sufficient sum to pay for said site, whether purchased or 
 condemned, and if said site is purchased a deed in fee therefor 
 shall be made to the State of Maryland for said site, free of all 
 liens and encumbrances. 
 
 SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That after said site is 
 acquired by condemnation as aforesaid, or after the deed afore- 
 said is passed, delivered and recorded, if the same is purchased, 
 the funds aforesaid, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall 
 be subject to the order of the said Ocean City School Building 
 Commission and shall be used by the said Ocean City School 
 Building Commission in the election and equipment of a school 
 building on the said site under the direction and supervison of 
 said Ocean City School Building Commission, and said Ocean 
 City School Building Commission is hereby clothed with all the 
 necessary powers to obtain and secure, approve or reject, plans 
 and specifications for said building and purchase suitable equip- 
 ment therefor, and to enter into all necessary contracts for said 
 building and the equipment thereof; which said building and 
 equipment when completed and accepted by said Ocean City 
 School Building Commission shall thereafter be the property of 
 the State of Maryland, and from the first day of September to the 
 first day of June in each year shall be under the supervision and 
 control of the Board of County School Commissioners of Wor- 
 cester County and may be used by the said County School. Com- 
 missiners of Worcester County without rental or charge for a 
 public school at Ocean City as a part of the public school system 
 of said County, subject to such other school uses during said 
 period as the State Board of Education may require but not to 
 interfere with the usual or orderly conduct of the said County 
 Public Schools at said Ocean City; and from the first day of 
 Tune to the first day of September in each year shall be under 
 the supervision and control of the State Board of Education for 
 such summer schools, institutes, associations and other as- 
 semblages of public school teachers or other educational or public 
 purposes as may be permitted or approved by State Board of 
 Education. 
 
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 SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That after the site for said 
 building is acquired as aforesaid, the said funds or so much 
 thereof as may be necessary shall be subject to the order of the 
 said Ocean City School Building Commission by requisition as 
 needed from time to time on the Comptroller of the State of 
 Maryland as to the funds so appropriated by the State and on 
 the Treasurer of Worcester County as to the funds appropriated 
 by the County Commissioners of Worcester County; and as to 
 the said State funds the Comptroller on said requisitions by said 
 Ocean City School Building Commission shall draw his warrant 
 on the Treasurer of Maryland, who shall pay the same ; and the 
 said funds shall at all times be drawn from said separate sources 
 in the same proportions as the amounts so appropriated bear to 
 each other. 
 
 SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said Ocean City 
 School Building Commission at their first meeting or as soon 
 thereafter as may be practicable shall organize by the election of 
 a Chairman and Secretary ; and said Commission shall keep full 
 and complete minutes of their proceedings at all times, a com- 
 plete record of all contracts and agreements entered into by them, 
 of all requisitions for money and the purpose thereof; which 
 records shall be at all times subject to inspection by the duly 
 authorized representatives of the State of Maryland and of the 
 County Commissioners of Worcester County; and shall make 
 detailed reports of their proceedings whenever required by the 
 State Comptroller or the County Commissioners of Worcester 
 County ; and when said building is completed and equipped shall 
 render a full statement to the State Comptroller and the County 
 Commissioners of Worcester County of their receipts and dis- 
 bursements of the funds hereby appropriated. 
 
 SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts incon- 
 sistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed in so far 
 as they are inconsistent herewith. 
 
 SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take 
 effect from the date of its passage. 
 
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 APPROPRIATION FOR MARYLAND NORMAL 
 AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. 
 
 CHAPTER 22& 1914. 
 
 AN ACT to appropriate the sum of five thousand dollars (5,000) 
 to complete the payments due for buildings constructed for 
 the use of State Normal School No. 3, for colored students, 
 now known as the Maryland Normal and Industrial School, 
 and located near the town of Bowie in Prince George's 
 County. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- 
 land, That the Comptroller of the Treasury is hereby authorized 
 and directed to issue his warrant upon the Treasurer of the State 
 in favor of the Treasurer of the State Board of Education for the 
 sum of five thousand ($5,000) dollars, same to be paid out of 
 any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and ap- 
 plied to the final payment of that amount still remaining unpaid 
 for the construction of buildings for State Normal School No. 
 3, near the town of Bowie, and now known as the Maryland 
 Normal and Industrial School. 
 
 SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the day 
 of its passage. 
 
 Approved April 1, 1914. 
 
BY-LAWS 
 
 Rules and Regulations 
 
 for the Administration of the 
 
 PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM 
 
 OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND 
 
 Adopted by 
 
 THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 
 
 February 22, 1905. Revised August 29, 1908, June 29, 1910, and August 28, 1912, 
 and Published by Authority of the Board 
 
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
 
 OFFICE OF THE 
 
 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 
 
 ANNAPOLIS, MD. 
 
 To the Teachers and Officials of the Public Schools of Maryland: 
 
 At a meeting of the State Board of Education, held August 28, 
 1912, the following By-Laws, Rules and Regulations for the ad- 
 ministration of the Public School System of the State of Maryland, 
 adopted February 22, 1905, were revised and made consistent 
 with the Acts of Assembly of 1904, 1906, 1908, 19 10 and 1912, 
 relating to public education. 
 
 The course of study for elementary, high and normal schools 
 is published in a seperate pamphlet the same being a By-Law of 
 the Board. 
 
 It is a request of the State Board of Education that a copy 
 of this pamphlet shall be placed in the hands of every public 
 school teacher in the counties of the State. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 GOV. PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, President. 
 
 M. BATES STEPHENS, Secretary, 
 
 THOMAS H. LEWIS, 
 
 HENRY C LONGNECKER, 
 
 THOMAS H. BOCK, 
 
 WILLIAM T. WARBURTON, 
 
 JOHN O. SPENCER, 
 
 HENRY SHRIVER, 
 
 State Board of Education. 
 
By-Laws, Rules and Regulations. 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 State Board of Education. 
 
 1. The State Board of Education shall hold regular meetings 
 on the last Wednesday in May, August, November and Febru- 
 ary in every year, and special meetings in pursuance of adjourn- 
 ment, or at the call of the President, the Secretary or any three 
 members of the Board. 
 
 2. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Education: 
 
 a. To cause the provisions of the school law to be carried 
 into effect, and, if necessary, to institute legal proceedings for 
 that purpose with the advice of the Attorney-General ; 
 
 b. To enact By-Laws, Rules and Regulations for the proper 
 and efficient administration of the Public School System not at 
 variance with Article 77 of the Code of Public General Laws of 
 Maryland, which By-Laws, Rules and Regulations when enacted 
 and published shall have the force of law ; 
 
 c. To suspend or remove any County Superintendent who 
 may be found inefficient in or incompetent for the discharge of 
 the duties assigned him or guilty of such moral delinquency as 
 unfits him for the office he holds ; 
 
 d. To exercise a general care and supervision of the public 
 school interests of the State, explain the true intent and mean- 
 ing of the School Law, decide without expense to the parties 
 concerned all controversies and disputes that may arise under 
 it (and its decision shall be final), act as assistants and advisers 
 of the various County School Boards, and to .issue in connec- 
 tion with the By-Laws, Rules and Regulations, as a part there- 
 of, circulars containing the rulings of the State Board of Edu- 
 cation respecting the true intent and meaning of the Public 
 School Law; 
 
 e. To make a report to the Governor of the State, annu- 
 ally, on or before the first day of January, of the condition of 
 the schools, a statement of the apportionment of the school fund, 
 
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 abstracts of County School Boards' reports, including receipts 
 and disbursements of said Boards on account of running the 
 schools, prescribe a uniform series of blanks for the teachers 
 and County School Boards, and to require all accounts to be 
 kept and returns to be made according to such forms, and to 
 issue, from time to time, circular letters and pamphlets to teach- 
 ers and county school officials on topics connected with the ad- 
 ministration of the schools; 
 
 f. To appoint the Principal and as many assistant teach- 
 ers of each of the State Normal Schools as may be necessary 
 and to fix their salaries, except such as may be fixed by law, 
 arrange and prescribe a normal or professional course for each 
 State Normal School or Normal Department receiving State 
 aid, and also shall prescribe the age and scholastic attainments 
 of students to be admitted to the academic course, fill vacancies 
 in scholarships to such State Normal Schools and Normal De- 
 partments receiving State aid, to admit pay students to such 
 State Normal Schools and Normal School Departments and to 
 act as trustees for and supervise same in every particular. 
 
 g. To prescribe a course of study for the public schools of 
 the State, including the High Schools, Manual Training, Com- 
 mercial and Agricultural Departments; examine candidates for 
 the office of County Superintendent when requested by the 
 County School Board, and, when found qualified, to give a cer- 
 tificate to that effect; grant professional or life certificates to 
 teachers of long experience and established reputation, under 
 such conditions and regulations as the State Board of Educa- 
 tion may adopt, which shall be valid until revoked for cause, 
 and to prepare and furnish a list of books suitable for public 
 school libraries ; 
 
 h. To receive and hold on deposit in some banking insti- 
 tution, to be selected by the Board, all moneys to which it is 
 entitled by law, and to disburse and pay out same upon the or- 
 der of the Board by the check of its Treasurer countersigned 
 by the Secretary of the Board ; receive and hold in trust all 
 donations or bequests of money or personal property and all 
 grants and devises of lands for the benefit of any Normal School 
 or Normal Department, and carefully examine the applications 
 of all persons asking to be placed on the "Teachers' Retired 
 
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 List," deciding which applicants are worthy to be placed on 
 such list to receive an annual pension. 
 
 3. An honorary member of the State Board of Education may 
 attend any regular meeting thereof, and shall have the right to 
 be heard upon any question affecting the interests of the school 
 represented by him, but shall not have the right to be present 
 at executive sessions of the Board, which sessions shall be at- 
 tended only by the active members of the Board. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 State Superintendent of Public Education. 
 
 1. The State Superintendent of Public Education is the ex- 
 ecutive officer of the State Board of Education and is ex officio 
 a member thereof and its Secretary. He shall conduct the cor- 
 respondence of the State Board, keep its records and prepare 
 the Annual School Report. 
 
 2. It shall be the further duty of the State Superintendent of 
 Public Education : 
 
 a. To inform himself and the State Board of Education of 
 the condition of the Public Schools throughout the State, and 
 to diffuse information among school officials and teachers as to 
 the best methods of teaching; 
 
 b. To cause to be printed and distributed to the Public 
 School Teachers of the State, each year, a pamphlet for the 
 proper observance of the public school anniversaries provided 
 by law, a teachers' manual of prescribed work for the county in- 
 stitute, the proceedings of the Maryland State Teachers' Asso- 
 ciation, and such other circulars and printed matter as will en- 
 courage the work of public instruction and promote its uni- 
 formity; provided all bills for such expenditures shall be ap- 
 proved by the State Board of Education; 
 
 c. To receive and present to the State Board of Education 
 the reports of the various Boards of County School Commis- 
 sioners and to examine said County Boards' statements of ex- 
 penditures of school funds and submit his judgment of the 
 same to said State Board of Education; 
 
102 BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 d. To endorse such Normal School diplomas from other 
 States as he may deem proper, and when so endorsed they shall 
 be legal certificates to teach in any Elementary Public School 
 of the counties of the State until revoked ; 
 
 e. To arrange dates for Teachers' Institutes and assist the 
 County Superintendent in the preparation of the program for 
 the same, and to attend and preside over said institutes when 
 in session, if possible, and give instruction ; 
 
 f. To visit annually the High Schools of the State unless 
 the State Board of Education shall designate a Principal of a 
 State Normal School or one of the Faculty of same for such 
 purpose; furnish the State Board of Education annually in the 
 month of August a list of accredited High Schools of the State, 
 together with such suggestions for their improvement as he 
 shall deem proper, and to supervise and inspect the work of the 
 Manual Training, Agricultural, Industrial and Commercial De- 
 partments of approved High Schools of the State, collect all 
 necessary statistics pertaining thereto and submit annually be- 
 fore the 20th day of August his report of same to the State 
 Board of Education, and shall attach to such report a copy of 
 the certificate, required by law, to be furnished the Comptroller. 
 
 3. The Superintendent shall nominate on or before July 31st 
 of each year, subject to election or confirmation by the State 
 Board of Education, an Assistant State Superintendent of Pub- 
 lic Education. The said Assistant Superintendent so nomi- 
 nated and elected shall assist the State Superintendent in such 
 branches of his office and field work as may, in the discretion 
 of said Superintendent, be committed to him, and efficiently 
 perform all such clerical duties as may be required of him by 
 either said Superintendent or the State Board of Education. 
 
 4. Whenever the Secretary to the State Board of Education 
 shall be designated to serve as its Treasurer, he shall give bond 
 to the said Board for the faithful discharge of his duties as 
 Treasurer in the sum of ten thousand dollars. 
 
 5. The term of services of the Assistant Superintendent, and 
 also of the Treasurer of the State Board of Educatoin, shall end on 
 the 31st day of July of every year, unless sooner terminated for 
 cause. 
 
PUBUC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MARYLAND. 1Q3 
 
 6. The Treasurer shall deposit all public moneys received by 
 him in the name of the State Board of Education in such in- 
 corporated bank or banks as the Board shall direct. He shall 
 pay out all moneys by check, countersigned by the Secretary, 
 and no bills shall be paid until approved by the Board and or- 
 dered to be paid, except such fixed salaries and janitors' wages 
 as shall be actually due. When the money is in hand these 
 salaries and wages shall be paid at the end of each month. The 
 Treasurer shall keep accurate accounts of all moneys received 
 and disbursed by him and shall preserve the same and all vouch- 
 ers relating thereto, and shall deliver all such accounts and 
 vouchers to his successor in office ; and the same shall be open, 
 at all times, to inspection by members of the Board or any 
 other persons directly interested therein. 
 
 7. The Treasurer shall indicate in the Cash Book the par- 
 ticular source from which each item of income is received, and 
 shall keep separate accounts of the several funds of which he 
 shall have the custody; and no money belonging to one fund 
 shall be applied to any other purpose than the one for which 
 it was appropriated without an order from the Board. He shall 
 enter in his Cash Book the purpose of each disbursement, and 
 the vouchers for all disbursements shall likewise show the pur- 
 pose of each disbursement separately. He shall have the ac- 
 counts of the Board at each bank where any of its moneys may 
 be deposited balanced at least once in every six months and 
 one of such balances shall be made at each of said banks on the 
 31st day of July in every year. The bank books and all vouch- 
 ers and account books shall be submitted to the Board at the 
 end of each fiscal year and at other times when requested. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 Boards of County School Commissioners. 
 
 1. The Board of County School Commissioners for each 
 county shall meet for organization on the first Tuesday in May 
 next succeeding their appointment, or as soon thereafter as may 
 be during said month of May, and elect one of their number 
 President of the Board, and a person not a member of the 
 Board to serve as its Secretary, Treasurer and County Super- 
 intendent of Public Education. Notices of these elections, and 
 
104 BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 of any subsequent change of officers, signed by the President 
 and Secretary of the Board, shall be sent forthwith to the 
 Comptroller and to the Secretary of the State Board of Educa- 
 cation. 
 
 2. In counties where there are more than eighty-five schools, 
 the Board may, in its discretion, appoint a clerk and fix his 
 salary; and where the number of teachers in a county exceed 
 one hundred and seventy-five the Board may, in its discretion, 
 appoint an Assistant County Superintendent. 
 
 3. The Board shall meet in regular session within fifteen days 
 after the close of each term, and at other times in special ses- 
 sion, in pursuance of adjournment or by call of the President 
 or the Secretary or a majority of the Board; provided every 
 member of the Board shall have due and timely notice of such 
 special session. The days for holding the regular quarterly 
 meetings shall be determined by the Board and made known 
 to the public. 
 
 4. The rules generally adopted by deliberative bodies for 
 their government shall be observed, so far as applicable, by the 
 Boards of County School Commissioners. No motion or reso- 
 lution (except a motion to adjourn) shall be declared adopted 
 without the concurrence of a majority of the whole Board, viz. : 
 two members when the Board consists of three, and four mem- 
 bers, when the Board consists of six members. 
 
 5. The Board of County School Commissioners shall have the 
 general supervision and control of all the schools of their re- 
 spective counties, and shall have power to determine all ques- 
 tions of dispute arising in the administration of the school law 
 in the county, except in cases where the power has been other- 
 wise specially delegated. An accurate record must be made of 
 each case decided, in order that, if an appeal be taken to the 
 State Board of Education, all facts may be submitted. 
 
 6. The Board of County School Commissioners shall locate, 
 build, repair and furnish schoolhouses unless otherwise spe- 
 cially provided by law; they shall adopt, purchase, change, 
 when deemed expedient, and distribute text-books, and furnish 
 the same free of cost for use in the public schools of the State, 
 subject to the order of said Boards, under such rules and regu- 
 lations as they may adopt for the care, safe-keeping and return 
 
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MARYLAND. 105 
 
 of same; they shall award the contract to furnish books to the 
 lowest responsible bidder after an opportunity has been given 
 for competitive bidding, and they shall fully set forth in their 
 annual report to the State Board of Education the title, the 
 name of the publisher and the net price paid for each book. 
 
 7. It shall be the duty of the Board of County School Com- 
 missioners : 
 
 a. To appoint the Principals of all High Schools, and, after 
 advising with the Principal of a school where an assistant or 
 assistants are employed, to appoint all assistant teachers; 
 
 b. To consolidate schools when in their judgment consoli- 
 dation is practicable and desirable and to arrange for and pay 
 the necessary cost of transporting pupils to and from such con- 
 solidated schools, and determine what pupils shall thus be 
 transported at public expense; 
 
 c. To confirm or reject the appointments of principal teach- 
 ers, to examine any charge preferred against the moral charac- 
 ter of any teacher, and fix the salaries of principal teachers and 
 assistants ; 
 
 d. To appoint annually, during the month of May and at 
 their first meeting of that month, three persons, residents of 
 the school district for which appointed, to act as District School 
 Trustees ; 
 
 e. To prevent the use of school property for any other 
 than Public School purposes and school district meetings, un- 
 less by the written consent of a majority of the County School 
 Board; 
 
 f. To make an annual report to the State Board of Edu- 
 cation on, or before, the first day of September of the condi- 
 tion of the schools on such blank forms, and containing such 
 statistics, as the State Board of Education may prescribe or re- 
 quire, and publish annually in the month of November, in such 
 manner and form as they may deem proper, a statement of re- 
 ceipts and disbursements, including the moneys received and 
 disbursed on account of text-books, and a statement of the in- 
 debtedness of the Board at the close of the fiscal year, and for- 
 ward a copy to the State Board of Education ; 
 
106 BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 g. To give due notice in writing to the County Commis- 
 sioners of the amount needed to keep the schools open at least 
 nine months, and also the amount needed to keep them open 
 ten months in the year, and also amount needed for building 
 new schoolhouses and repairing old ones, these statements 
 to be made separately, furnish plans and drawings for all 
 new schoolhouses to be constructed in the county, and close 
 any school which does not maintain an average attendance of 
 ten pupils or maintain same in part by private subscription, and 
 in part from the school fund, rating a full school at twenty 
 pupils; 
 
 h. To select students possessing the requisite qualifications 
 for the free scholarships of the State Normal Schools and Nor- 
 mal School Departments receiving State aid, and also to name, 
 wherever practicable, alternates for these scholarships, who shall 
 enjoy the scholarship if for any reason the principal fails to use 
 same; 
 
 i. To select a suitable site for a schoolhouse in every dis- 
 trict where a new schoolhouse is to be built, or a change of lo- 
 cation in the schoolhouse site shall be deemed necessary; pur- 
 chase or receive donations of schoolhouse sites; but in no case 
 to build upon or occupy any schoolhouse site, purchased or 
 donated, until a good title to the same shall have been acquired 
 in the name of the Board of County School Commissioners, and 
 they are authorized to sell or lease any lot or building formerly 
 owned for school purposes but which may be unused because 
 of consolidation of school districts or for any other reason ; 
 
 j. To designate the respective schools under their charge 
 as schools No. 1, 2, and 3, and so forth, or their respective elec- 
 tion districts; 
 
 k. To order the payment of teachers' salaries and all in- 
 cidental expenses of the schools then due at the first meeting of 
 the Board after the close of the term. If the funds on hand 
 are not sufficient for this purpose the Board is authorized to 
 borrow temporarily what may be needed, and to give a note for 
 the amount, signed by the President and the Treasurer; 
 
 1. To appoint qualified persons as instructors in the col- 
 ored industrial schools or departments in counties where same 
 have been established, fix the salaries of said instructors and 
 
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MARYLAND. 107 
 
 pay same and other costs of said school or department out of 
 the special appropriation for that purpose and to include in the 
 annual report to be made to the State Board of Education a 
 full statement of receipts and disbursements of this fund; 
 
 m. To appoint, if deemed practicable, one grade super- 
 visor, and two such supervisors if there shall be employed in 
 the county one hundred and fifty teachers, and one additional 
 supervisor for each additional one hundred teachers. 
 
 n. To appoint a capable person as supervisor of the col- 
 ored schools, if a colored industrial school is maintained in the 
 county, and said county have not less than ten colored schools 
 in operation, and use one-half of the State appropriation for the 
 colored industrial school to pay the salary of such supervisor 
 and his or her travelling expenses. 
 
 o. To present to the County Commissioners annually, thirty 
 days before making the levy for schools, an itemized statement 
 of the cost of maintaining instruction in each high school of 
 the county and publish same in one or more newspapers printed 
 in the county. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 District School Trustees. 
 
 1. The Board of District School Trustees shall meet within 
 thirty days after their appointment, and at their first meeting 
 appoint a chairman, who shall be one of their number, notice 
 of whose appointment shall at once be sent to the Board of 
 County School Commissioners. The Principal Teacher of the 
 school, whose appointment as such shall have been confirmed 
 by the County School Board, shall be ex officio secretary and 
 executive officer of the Board of District School Trustees. 
 
 2. They shall take and subscribe the oath or affirmation of 
 office prescribed by the Constitution before one of the County 
 School Commissioners, the County Superintendent or his as- 
 sistant or duly appointed clerk, or before any other officer duly 
 authorized to administer oaths. No County School Commis- 
 sioner, County Superintendent, Assistant County Superintend- 
 ent or Clerk to the County School Board shall charge or re- 
 ceive any fee for administering any oath. 
 
108 BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 3. They shall have the care of all houses and lands con- 
 nected therewith intended for school purposes, also of the fur- 
 niture, apparatus and other school property; they shall attend 
 to all repairs, first notifying the Board of County School Com- 
 missioners of the repairs needed and submitting an estimate 
 of the cost of the same, and, when the estimate is approved by 
 the County School Board, the Trustees shall have the repairs 
 made, or the work may be ordered to be done by the County 
 Superintendent; but the cost of glazing, necessary whitewash- 
 ing and the securing of doors and windows may be charged 
 among the incidental, sanitary and repair expenses of the school, 
 provided the total cost does not exceed five dollars in any one 
 term, and the teacher shall inclose with his report an itemized 
 bill of such expenses for ' the approval of the County School 
 Board. 
 
 4. The Trustees shall appoint and employ a Principal Teacher 
 from among those persons who hold a legal certificate, which 
 appointment shall be reported to the County School Board for 
 confirmation on the required blank form and to be signed by a 
 majority of the Trustees. 
 
 5. Principal Teachers who have been duly appointed, and 
 their appointments confirmed by the County School Board, may 
 be removed at any time by the Board of District School Trustees 
 by their giving the Teacher thirty days' notice in writing of 
 dismissal, provided the District School Trustees, or a majority 
 thereof, shall furnish in writing the reasons for such dismissal 
 when asked for by the Teacher so notified ; and provided further, 
 that the demand for such reasons be made by the Teacher 
 within ten days from the time of receiving such written notice 
 of dismissal ; an appeal from the action of the Board of District 
 School Trustees may be taken by the Teacher to the County 
 School Board within ten days after he or she shall have re- 
 ceived such reasons or charges in writing. The reasons or 
 charges given by the Trustees must be specific and the action 
 of the County School Board in the premises shall be final. 
 
 6. They shall have general supervision over their respective 
 schools and shall visit them frequently. They shall see that 
 every schoolhouse site is provided with suitable outbuildings, 
 which shall be kept in good repair and condition. 
 
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MARYLAND. 1Q9 
 
 7. In case of neglect of duty, or refusal to act, on the part 
 of the members of the Board of District School Trustees, or 
 any of them, their places shall be declared vacant by the Board 
 of County School Commissioners, who shall fill the same. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 County Superintendent. 
 
 1. The County Superintendent of Public Education, who shall 
 also be the Secretary and Treasurer of the Board of County 
 School Commissioners, shall enter upon the duties of his office 
 on the first day of August ensuing his election (unless appointed 
 to fill out an unexpired term), by taking the oath of office pre- 
 scribed by the Constitution before the Clerk of the Circuit 
 Court of the county for which he shall be appointed. 
 
 2. The County Superintendent, as Secretary and Treasurer of 
 the Board of County School Commissioners, shall give bond 
 to the State of Maryland in such penal sum as the Board may 
 determine, conditioned that he will faithfully perform the duties 
 of Secretary and Treasurer, pay over and apply all moneys 
 that shall come into his hands or care, as Treasurer, to such 
 persons and in such manner as said Board may lawfully direct ; 
 that he will keep a full account of all moneys received and paid 
 out by him and preserve the same and all vouchers relating 
 thereto, and deliver all books and vouchers relating to his 
 office to his successor; which bond shall be signed by the Sec- 
 retary and Treasurer and by two good sureties, or by any 
 bonding, deposit or trust company of Maryland, having by law 
 the power to act as such surety, which said bond shall be ap- 
 proved by the Board and filed with the Clerk of the Circuit 
 Court. 
 
 3. It shall be the duty of the County Superintendent, as Sec- 
 retary and -Treasurer of the Board, to attend every meeting 
 of the Board of County School Commissioners and to keep 
 an accurate minute of the proceedings, and, after the same shall 
 have been duly approved by the Board, to record said minutes 
 or proceedings in a well-bound book to be kept for the purpose. 
 
HO BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 The record book of the proceedings shall be indexed for easy 
 reference and shall be accessible to any member of the Board or 
 to any other interested person. 
 
 4. As Secretary he shall carefully file and safely keep all let- 
 ters, written reports and other papers relating to the office or 
 the business of the Board, and all the correspondence pertaining 
 thereto. 
 
 5. He shall prepare, on proper blank forms, and submit to 
 the County School Commissioners for their consideration and 
 approval, the annual report to the State Board of Education, 
 on or before the first day of September of each year. 
 
 6. He shall notify the Comptroller on or before the fifteenth 
 day of January of each year how many months the schools of 
 the county have been kept open during the calendar year ending 
 December 31st next preceding. 
 
 7. He shall receipt for all moneys received, and deposit the 
 same in some incorporated bank to his credit as Treasurer 
 of the Board of County School Commissioners, keeping an 
 accurate account of the same, and distinguishing the particular 
 source from which each item is received, and he shall disburse 
 the same by check, under the order of the Board, for which 
 he shall take receipts showing the purpose of each disburse- 
 ment separately and file same among the papers of the office. 
 The Free School Book Fund and all special appropriations must 
 be kept separately from the General School Fund and these 
 funds cannot be used for any other purpose than the one for 
 which the appropriation was made. 
 
 8. He shall devote his whole time to public school business, 
 and shall not engage in any profession, occupation or employ- 
 ment which will prevent him from so doing. He shall take 
 charge of and keep open the office of the Board during business 
 hours on such days in every week as the Board may direct, 
 of which days public notice shall be given; but in counties 
 where there is a Clerk to the Board or an Assistant Superin- 
 tendent the office of the Board shall be kept open during busi- 
 ness hours daily, as far as practicable. 
 
 9. On vacating his office he shall deliver his books, vouchers 
 and all official papers to his successor in office. All books of 
 
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MARYLAND. m 
 
 account and record shall be completed and posted up to and 
 including date of leaving the office, and no salary shall be paid 
 until this provision has been complied with. 
 
 10. He shall hold annual examinations for applicants for 
 Teachers' Certificates in the presence of at least one of the 
 County School Commissioners or one of the District School 
 Trustees, at such time and place as the County School Board 
 may direct, of which due notice shall be given in the news- 
 papers ; and no other or special examination for such appli- 
 cants shall be held without the special order of the School 
 Board; but an examination may be continued or adjourned by 
 the County Superintendent. The examination for Teachers' 
 Certificates shall be in writing, and the papers of all applicants 
 shall be preserved and duly filed for two years, subject to in- 
 spection of the County School Board or the State Board of 
 Education. The percentage of questions correctly answered in 
 each branch shall be marked on the examination papers and 
 recorded in a book kept for that purpose, and any applicant 
 for a Teacher's Certificate, when so ordered by the County 
 School Board, may inspect his or her examination papers in 
 the presence of the County Superintendent or the Assistant 
 County Superintendent. 
 
 11. He shall issue Teachers' Certificates to the persons enti- 
 tled to receive them under and by direction of the County School 
 Board, but no certificate shall be granted to any person with- 
 out satisfactory proof of his or her good moral character, no r 
 to any male under the age of nineteen years, or to any female 
 under eighteen years of age, or to any person addicted to 
 the use of intoxicating liquors. Certificates thus issued shall 
 continue in force for six months, unless sooner revoked for 
 cause, unless the County Superintendent shall have become sat- 
 isfied from personal observation of the teacher's ability to gov- 
 ern a school and to impart instruction in the various branches 
 taught in the public schools. When he shall have been satis- 
 fied in regard to these matters he shall issue a certificate or 
 endorse the one already issued, which may be good for five years, 
 unless sooner revoked for cause; but a person, holding a cer- 
 tificate, who fails to obtain a school within six months after 
 the issuance of the same, shall not be required to pass another 
 
112 BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 examination for fifteen months from the date of the granting 
 of the certificate. Certificates of the first grade, or first class 
 of the second grade may be renewed with or without an exami- 
 nation at the order of the County School Board, but certificates 
 of the second or third class of the second grade shall not be 
 renewed beyond five years without the approval of the State 
 Board of Education. The County Superintendent shall not be 
 allowed to make any charge or receive any fee for issuing or 
 renewing any certificate. 
 
 12. He shall visit the schools of his county three times in 
 each year if the teachers number sixty or less ; twice in each 
 year if they number more than sixty and less than one hundred 
 and seventy-five, and once in each year if there be more than 
 one hundred and seventy-five teachers. But in counties where 
 there is an Assistant, such Assistant may visit the schools when 
 necessary by direction of the County Superintendent, and all 
 schools of said county should be visited twice in each year. 
 He shall observe the methods of the teachers and give them 
 such practical suggestions as circumstances may prompt. He 
 shall examine the pupils in the schools as to their proficiency 
 in the work of the grades to which they have been assigned, in- 
 quire into all matters of discipline and management of the 
 schools and advise and assist the teacher in regulating the 
 same according to law. 
 
 13. He shall prepare and furnish the teacher of the county 
 a course of study conforming to the Course of Study prescribed 
 by the State Board of Education for the public schools of the 
 State and adapted to the text-books used in his county ; and 
 shall cause the schools to be graded and organized to conform 
 to the requirements of said course of study. 
 
 14. He shall, in his official visits to the schools, examine the 
 condition of the schoolhouses, school grounds, fences, outbuild- 
 ings, furniture and text-books, and shall suggest methods for 
 improving and beautifying the school grounds, warming and 
 ventilating the schoolhouses, decorating the school walls, form- 
 ing school libraries ; and he shall make a memorandum of the 
 condition of each schoolhouse, the furniture therein and of 
 the outbuildings and fences connected therewith, in his official 
 
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MARYLAND. H3 
 
 Note Book, which he shall carry with him for the purpose, which 
 record shall be preserved among the records of the office for the 
 information of the members of the County School Board or other 
 persons directly interested. 
 
 15. He shall cause to be held twice in each scholastic year 
 an examination of pupils in the various branches of their grades. 
 The first examination shall be held in the month of January 
 and the questions for same shall be prepared by the County 
 Superintendent, or at his direction, by the teachers, provided 
 a copy of such questions prepared by the teachers shall be sent 
 to the County Superintendent within six days from the close 
 of the examination. The second examination of pupils, for 
 promotion, shall be held the last week of the school year, or 
 the week preceding, and the questions for this examination 
 shall be prepared by the County Superintendent and sent to 
 each Principal Teacher in due time, and the same shall not be 
 opened by the teacher until the day for beginning the exami- 
 nation. The results of the examination and all promotions of 
 pupils must be made on proper blank forms and sent to the 
 County Superintendent with report for Summer Term. 
 
 16. He shall organize once in each year a five-days' Teachers' 
 Institute, the same to be held at such time as the State Super- 
 intendent may fix, and at such place as may be selected by the 
 President of the County School Board. 
 
 17. The County Superintendent shall send to each teacher 
 in actual employment, two weeks before time for holding the 
 institute, a program of same ; but such teachers as attended 
 during the preceding summer recess; a summer school for at 
 least six weeks, may be excused from attending the institute. 
 Teachers are required to attend these institutes, and failure 
 to attend, unless excused by the County School Board, on ac- 
 count of sickness or by reason of attendance upon a summer 
 school as hereinbefore provided, will be attended by a reduc- 
 tion of salary to be fixed by the County School Board. At these 
 County Institutes the County Superintendent shall preside, if 
 for any reason the State Superintendent cannot attend, and 
 shall make such suggestions and give such talks from day to 
 day as he may consider important for the purpose of increas- 
 ing the efficiency of the schools and improving the work of the 
 
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 teacher. He shall report to the County School Board the names 
 of all teachers who are absent from the institute. He may also 
 organize one or more Teachers' Associations, which may meet 
 at least three times a year, encourage the work of the Mary- 
 land State Teachers' Reading Circle and shall supervise any 
 Manual or Industrial Training School organized in his county. 
 
 18. He shall make himself familiar with the Public School 
 Law of the State and the By-Laws, Rules and Regulations of 
 the State Board of Education. By the acceptance of the office 
 he binds himself to the observance of all the provisions which 
 regulate his office and prescribe his duties. In cases of doubt 
 he should apply to the State Board of Education as the author- 
 ized interpreter of the law. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 Teachers. 
 
 1. Every teacher on his first appointment and before entering 
 on the duties of his office shall take the following oath of office, 
 a copy of which shall be kept in the office of the County School 
 Board : 
 
 I, , having been appointed a teacher in 
 
 the public school of County, State of Mary- 
 land, do swear (or affirm) that I will obey the School Law of 
 the State of Maryland and all rules and regulations touching my 
 position as teacher, passed in pursuance thereof by the proper 
 authority; that I will, to the best of my skill and judgment, 
 diligently and faithfully, without partiality or prejudice, dis- 
 charge the duties of a teacher in the public schools of said county, 
 including attendance on Teachers' Institutes and Associations 
 when legally called thereto, and will honestly and correctly make 
 quarterly and other reports when required by law or the school 
 authorities of said county to do so. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MARYLAND. H5 
 
 State of Maryland, County, to wit : 
 
 Sworn (or affirmed) before the subscriber 
 
 by teacher, who in my 
 
 presence has thereto set name this 
 
 day of 19.... 
 
 2. It shall be the duty of teachers to have the schoolrooms 
 swept, dusted and ventilated every day, and warmed when nec- 
 essary, at least fifteen minutes before the hour of opening, and 
 to see that the house is kept clean and comfortable at all times. 
 They shall organize and conduct their schools according to the 
 schedule in Article VIII, Section 7, and shall give their undi- 
 vided attention to the pupils during the whole of the school 
 hours. Pupils and teachers are prohibited from using tobacco 
 in any form on the school premises during school hours. 
 
 3. They shall keep a record of the daily attendance of them- 
 selves and of each pupil in the register provided for that pur- 
 pose. This register shall be preserved in good condition and 
 submitted to the inspection of the County Superintendent, the 
 Trustees and the Commissioners, whenever desired. 
 
 4. They shall make a term report to the School Board (on 
 forms provided for that purpose, and approved by the State 
 Board), and shall fill up accurately all the blanks, -so far as 
 applicable to each particular school. They shall swear or affirm 
 to this report before a Justice of the Peace or a School Com- 
 missioner, if required -by the By-Laws of the County School 
 Board ; they shall have it endorsed by at least two School 
 Trustees ; and shall deliver it to the County Superintendent at 
 least three days before the stated quarterly meeting of the 
 Board. 
 
 5. No teacher shall receive payment for services until the 
 registers are properly filled up, and reports made and delivered 
 as required by law. 
 
 6. No person shall act as a substitute for a teacher unless 
 holding a Teacher's Certificate, and then only with the written 
 consent of the Trustees, which shall be filed with the teacher's 
 report. In case a disqualified person acts as substitute, no salary 
 shall be paid for that time. 
 
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 7. For each day's absence from school, without good and 
 sufficient reasons stated in the quarterly report and accepted 
 by the Board of County School Commissioners, the teacher shall 
 forfeit the proportionate amount of salary for the time so lost. 
 Every teacher regularly employed, who shall submit satisfac- 
 tory proof of same to the County School Board, shall be allowed 
 not more than twenty days for the school year for actual sick- 
 ness ; and the County School Board shall pay to said teacher, 
 for the number of days thus lost, not less than one-half of the 
 amount of salary received by him or her when in actual service. 
 Any time lost by the teacher, whether from sickness or any other 
 cause, shall not be made up by teaching on Saturdays or legal 
 holidays, or at extra hours. The days of absence and causes 
 therefor shall be noted in the quarterly report, and the Secre- 
 tary of the County School Board shall keep a correct statement 
 of same in an appropriate record book. 
 
 8. Every teacher shall keep an account of the books belong- 
 ing to the school furnished each pupil for use, and shall require 
 the return of the same when the child leaves school. Teachers 
 will be held responsible for the safe-keeping and good condi- 
 tion of the books and stationery belonging to the schools. 
 
 9. Any teacher who shall refuse to vacate his school when 
 legally notified of his suspension or dismissal by the Trustees 
 or County School Board, shall forfeit all claim for compensation 
 for services during the term in which such suspension or dis- 
 missal shall take place, and be thereafter ineligible to any school 
 under the control of the Board, unless reinstated by the County 
 School Board. 
 
 10. Every teacher shall furnish to the County School Board 
 an inventory of the books and stationery belonging to the Board 
 which are in the school at the expiration of each school year. 
 
 11. All contracts with teachers shall be in writing, and shall 
 be signed by the Board of District School Trustees, or a ma- 
 jority of them, and by the teacher ; said contracts shall be sub- 
 mitted to the Board of County School Commissioners for con- 
 firmation, and shall not be valid unless confirmed. The follow- 
 ing shall be the form of contract and no other form shall be 
 legal : 
 
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MARYLAND. H7 
 
 Teacher's Contract. 
 
 STATE OF MARYLAND, COUNTY OF 19. ... 
 
 It is hereby agreed by and between the District School Trus- 
 tees of School No , District No , and 
 
 . that the said 
 
 shall be and is hereby appointed to teach at said 
 
 school, subject to the confirmation and requirements of the Board 
 
 of County School Commissioners of County, 
 
 and to the provisions of the Public School Laws of the State 
 of Maryland, and at such salary as the said Board of County 
 School Commissioners may direct ; provided, however, that no 
 white teachers regularly employed in a public school of said 
 State, having an average attendance of ten pupils or more, 
 shall receive as a salary less than three hundred dollars per 
 school year; and provided further, that all white teachers, hold- 
 ing a first class Teachers' Certificate, who have taught for a 
 period of three years in any of the public schools of said State, 
 shall receive as a salary not less than three hundred and fifty 
 dollars per school year; that all such teachers, who have taught 
 in said schools for a period of five years, shall receive as a salary 
 not less than four hundred dollars per school year; that all such 
 teachers, who have taught in said schools for a period of eight 
 years, shall receive as a salary not less than four hundred and 
 fifty dollars per school year, and that all white teachers hold- 
 ing a second class Teachers' Certificate, who have taught in said 
 public schools for a period of eight years, shall receive as a 
 salary not less than three hundred and fifty dollars per school 
 year; and provided further that the provisions of Ch. 759, Acts 
 1914, affecting- the salary of trained teachers be complied with. 
 
 The said on 
 
 part, hereby accepts said appointment, to take effect on the 
 day of 19 
 
 This contract shall continue from term to term, and from 
 year to year, subject to revocation at any time by either of 
 the parties hereto, on giving to the other party thirty days' 
 notice, in writing, to that effect, and similar notice of such re- 
 vocation must also be given to the said Board of County School 
 Commissioners. 
 
 If from any cause the Board of County School Commissioners 
 should decide to close said school, then this agreement may be 
 terminated by said Board of County School Commissioners at 
 any time. 
 
118 BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 Witness our hands: 
 (At least two Trustee? must sign.) 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 Teacher. 
 The above contract is hereby ratified and confirmed by the 
 
 Board of County School Commissioners of 
 
 County, this day of , 19 
 
 Attest : 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 Form of Dismissal. 
 
 State of Maryland, County of , 19. .. 
 
 To 
 
 Teacher of Public School No , Election District No 
 
 You are hereby notified that your services as teacher of the 
 
 aforesaid school will not be required after the 
 
 day of , 19. . . ., said day being not less than 
 
 thirty days from the date hereof. 
 (At least'two Trustees must sign.) 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 12. If a teacher wishes to vacate his school, thirty days' notice 
 in writing must be given to the Trustees and also to the County 
 School Board, except in cases of emergency, of which the School 
 Board must judge. If any teacher leaves without giving such 
 notice, he shall forfeit the salary already accrued for the cur- 
 rent term. 
 
 13. Immediately on the termination of the scholastic year, 
 or on the teacher's vacating the school, he shall secure the 
 schoolhouse, and shall deliver the keys thereof and all school 
 property in his charge to the Chairman of the Board of District 
 Trustees or to one of the School Commissioners, taking a re- 
 ceipt therefor. 
 
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MARYLAND. H9 
 
 14. No person is eligible to appointment as teacher or sub- 
 stitute without having one of the several certificates to teach 
 as enumerated in Section 6 of Article VII. The minimum legal 
 age of men teachers is nineteen years ; of women teachers, 
 eighteen years. 
 
 15. Teachers shall attend the Teachers' Institute and County 
 and District Teachers' Association when ordered by the proper 
 authority, under such penalty as the Board of County School 
 Commissioners may prescribe. 
 
 16. Every teacher is expected and required to make himself 
 acquainted with the By-Laws, Rules and Regulations of the 
 State Board of Education, and of the Board of School Com- 
 missioners of his county, and to bear in mind that by accept- 
 ing employment he voluntarily undertakes to discharge the du- 
 ties imposed or implied therein. Any voluntary neglect or vio- 
 lation of said By-Laws is therefore a breach of contract, and 
 may lead to termination of the engagement or to the annul- 
 ment of his certificate. 
 
 17. The Principal Teacher of every school, when the appoint- 
 ment has been confirmed by the County School Board, is ex 
 officio the Secretary of the Board of District School Trustees. 
 He shall keep an accurate record of the proceedings of each 
 meeting in an appropriate record book, which shall be inspected 
 by the County Superintendent when visiting the schools. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 Teachers' Certificates. 
 
 1. The issuing, grading and renewal of certificates of. qualifi- 
 cation as Public School Teachers, to persons applying for same 
 in any county, are in the discretion of the County Superintend- 
 ent under the provisions of law. 
 
 2. The certificates issued by each County Superintendent shall 
 be numbered and registered in a book provided for that pur- 
 pose and shall be arranged by the County Superintendent, un- 
 der the sanction of the County School Board, as First Grade, 
 First Class; First Grade, Second Class; Second Grade, First 
 Class; Second Grade, Second Class; and Second Grade, Third 
 Class. The grade shall be determined, as required by law, by 
 the scholastic qualifications of the Teacher; but the class shall 
 
120 BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 be determined by the professional ability and skill of the Teacher 
 as exhibited in the schoolroom, and observed and vouched for 
 by the County Superintendent. Certificates issued by the Prin- 
 cipal of a State Normal School, or the Normal Department of 
 Washington College, shall be subject to the same provisions. 
 When the diplomas of graduates of the State Normal Schools, 
 or the Normal Department of Washington College, shall have 
 affixed to them the Seal of the State Board of Education, they 
 shall be accepted as First Grade, First Class Certificates for a 
 period of five years, after which time the same shall be sub- 
 ject to classification by the Superintendent of the county where 
 the Teacher is employed ; but the Teacher shall have the right 
 of appeal from the action of the County Superintendent to the 
 State Board of Education. 
 
 3. Certificates of the First Grade shall certify that the Teacher 
 has been examined in Orthography, Reading, Writing, Arith- 
 metic, Geography, United States and General History, English 
 Grammar, Bookkeeping, Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Physi- 
 ology, Plane Geometry (four books), National and State Con- 
 stitutions, Theory and Practice of Teaching, the Laws and By- 
 Laws of the Public School System of Maryland, Elements of 
 Agriculture; and those of the Second Grade shall certify that 
 the Teacher has been examined in Orthography, Reading, Writ- 
 ing, Arithmetic, Geography, United States History, History of 
 Maryland, English Grammar, Constitutions of United States 
 and Maryland, Algebra (to Quadratics), Theory and Practice 
 of Teaching, Physiology, the Laws and By-Laws of the Public 
 School System of Maryland, and Elements of Agriculture. 
 
 4. Teachers who have taught seven years, five of which shall 
 have been spent in the public schools of Maryland, and hold 
 a First Class Certificate, may apply to the State Board of Edu- 
 cation for a Life Certificate. They must file with their applica- 
 tions the unanimous recommendation of the Board of School 
 Commissioners and the County Superintendent of the county 
 where they have last taught. The County Superintendent must 
 forward to the State Board, if required, the examination papers 
 of the last examination taken by the applicant for a Teacher's 
 Certificate. If the State Board favorably considers the applica- 
 tioa, they shall name two County Superintendents, who, with 
 
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MARYLAND. 121 
 
 the State Superintendent, shall prepare an examination unless 
 waived by the State Board of Education the result of which 
 shall be reported to the State Board at its next meeting. Ap- 
 plications for Life Certificates shall be considered only at the 
 February meeting of the Board, and examinations will be held 
 only once in each year. Those obtaining Life Certificates shall 
 be accepted by all County Superintendents without further ex- 
 amination as teachers of the grade named in the certificate; 
 provided, that the Certificate thus issued shall be accepted 
 as First Class for a period of five years from the date of its is- 
 sue, after which it shall be subject to classification by the 
 County Superintendent. 
 
 5. There shall be held annually on Thursday, Friday and Sat- 
 urday, next succeeding the date of the regular quarterly meet- 
 ing of the State Board of Education in the month of August, 
 an examination for State or Life Certificates, which examina- 
 tion shall embrace the subjects of the Normal Course of the 
 Normal School Curriculum. The place for holding the exam- 
 ination will be in Annapolis in the office of the Department of 
 Education. The questions for this examination shall be pre- 
 pared by the State Superintendent, subject to the approval of 
 the State Board of Education, and conducted by said Superin- 
 tendent> with such assistance as may be given him by the State 
 Board of Education. 
 
 6. No person shall be employed as a Teacher in the Public 
 Schools of Maryland unless such a person shall hold: 
 
 (a) A certificate issued by the County Superintendent 
 where he or she proposes to teach. 
 
 (b) A certificate from a Principal of a State Normal School 
 or of the Principal of the Normal Department of Washington 
 College. 
 
 (c) A diploma of a State Normal School of Maryland or 
 of the Normal Department of Washington College. 
 
 (d) A Normal School diploma of another State endorsed 
 by the State Superintendent of Public Education. 
 
 (e) A certificate from the State Board of Education. 
 
 (f) If a special high school teacher, as provided by Chapter 
 386 of the Acts of 1910, a certificate of proficiency in such sub- 
 jects as they are required to teach ; same to be approved by both 
 
122 BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 the State and County Superintendent. In case any such in- 
 structor does not hold such a certificate, he or she shall take 
 such an examination as may be prescribed by the County Super- 
 intendent and approved by the State Superintendent. 
 
 (g) A diploma of a reputable college or university when the 
 holder has completed a standard course for a collegiate degree 
 and has taken, with the major subjects of the junior and senior 
 years, the following course in pedagogy : 
 
 JUNIOR YEAR. 
 
 Course A. General History of Education, embracing a review 
 of the most eminent educational theories, and sys- 
 tems of ancient and modern times. First term. 
 Twice a week. 
 
 Course B. Psychology. The content and development of mind, 
 studied with the special view to comprehending the 
 art of teaching, as based on a knowledge of the 
 child. Second term. Four times a week. 
 
 Course C. Special Method Review of Elementary English, 
 Geography and Arithmetic, and a study of meth- 
 ods and devices used in teaching these branches. 
 Throughout the year. Three times a week. 
 
 Course D. Drawing, Music, Elocution, and Physical Training. 
 Once a week in each of the subjects named 
 throughout the year. 
 
 SENIOR YEAR. 
 
 Course E. General Method. The Philosophy of Teaching. A 
 study of the psychological and pedagogical princi- 
 ples upon which teaching is based. First term. 
 Twice a week for at least eighteen consecutive 
 weeks. 
 
 Course F. School Organization and Discipline. This course 
 comprises methods of supervising and managing 
 schools, teachers and pupils; courses of study and 
 programs, based on Maryland Teachers' Manual 
 and Course of Study ; sanitation ; play grounds ; 
 text-books ; supplies and apparatus. Second term. 
 Twice a week for at least eighteen consecutive 
 weeks. 
 
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MARYLAND. 123 
 
 Course G. School Law. This course treats of the duties of the 
 teacher as an officer of the State; school boards; 
 trustees; contracts; care of property; records and 
 reports, etc. Second term. Twice a week for at 
 least eighteen consecutive weeks. 
 
 Course H. Practice Teaching. Throughout the year each stu- 
 dent will teach at least two periods every week 
 under the supervision of a critic teacher in a regu- 
 larly graded school. 
 
 Course I. Drawing, Music, Elocution, and Physical Training. 
 Once a week in each of the subjects named through- 
 out the year. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 Schools. 
 
 1. The Course of Study for Elementary Schools, which em- 
 braces the subjects required to be taught in every District 
 School, shall be followed as outlined and given in Section 7 of 
 this Article; and the curriculum for High Schools as given in 
 Section 7 of this Article shall be followed in the grades of the 
 High Schools. 
 
 2. The school year of ten months shall be divided into four 
 terms as nearly equal as possible, to be called the fall, winter, 
 spring and summer terms, respectively. 
 
 3. School shall be open daily, five days in each week, and for 
 six hours each day. The hours each day, unless otherwise or- 
 dered by the School Commissioners, shall be from 9 A. M. to 12 
 M., and from 1 to 4 P. M. The younger pupils may be required 
 to attend during a shorter daily session at the .discretion of the 
 teacher and with the consent of the County Superintendent. No 
 school shall be in session on Saturday, Sunday, or on any of 
 the following holidays, viz. : Thanksgiving Day, the 24th of 
 December to the 1st of January (both inclusive), the Friday 
 before Easter and the Monday after Easter, the whole months 
 of July and August, and the days designated for the holding of 
 
124 BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 the Annual Teachers' Institute. These vacations and holidays 
 are obligatory on all schools. Election days and Decoration 
 Day may each be declared a holiday at the discretion of the 
 Board of County School Commissioners. 
 
 4. There shall be a public examination of the pupils in each 
 school twice a year, to which parents and school officers shall 
 be invited, and the examination shall be reported to the School 
 Board. 
 
 5. The teacher of any school may order the following articles 
 for the comfort, convenience and security of the school when 
 not otherwise provided for by the County School Board, viz. : 
 fuel (ax and saw if needed), water bucket, drinking cup, wash 
 basin, soap, towel, window lights and fastenings, door locks, all 
 of which shall be paid for by the teacher and charged among 
 the incidental expenses of the school, provided that vouchers 
 shall be given for every expenditure. The teacher shall be re- 
 sponsible for the due care and right use of such articles, and 
 any loss arising from neglect or waste shall be charged against 
 his salary. 
 
 6. The rules adopted by any Principal Teacher for the gov- 
 ernment of his school, with the consent of the County Super- 
 intendent and the Board of District Trustees, and not at vari- 
 ance with the School law, the By-Laws of the State Board or 
 the By-Laws of the County School Board, shall be carefully 
 observed by all pupils and assistant teachers under his au- 
 thority. 
 
 7. The following classification and schedule of studies shall 
 be observed in all Primary, Elementary and High Schools : 
 
 NOTE : For the convenience of all concerned the outlined work by grades 
 will be found on the last pages of this pamphlet. By order of the State 
 Board of Education, the Eleventh Year Grade has been added, and the work 
 of the course has been redistributed and revised to meet the requirements 
 of such action and also to meet new conditions which have arisen because 
 of new demands made on modern public school teaching. School officials 
 and teachers are earnestly requested to study carefully this revised course 
 in ordei that its provisions may be honestly observed. 
 
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MARYLAND. 125 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 
 Normal Schools. 
 
 1. The Maryland State Normal School, located in the city 
 of Baltimore; the State Normal School No. 2, located in Frost- 
 burg, and State Normal School No. 3, for colored students, are 
 supported by State appropriations and are under the control 
 and supervision of the State Board of Education. The purpose 
 of these schools is to train and prepare young men and women 
 for the profession of teaching, and they are especially main- 
 tained for the instruction and practice of students in the science 
 of education, the art of teaching and the mode of governing 
 school. 
 
 2. Each County School Board and the Board of School Com- 
 missioners of Baltimore City is entitled to send two free stu- 
 dents to the Maryland State Normal School for each member 
 of the General Assembly of Maryland, and one free student to 
 the State Normal School of Frostburg, and the Baltimore Col- 
 ored Normal School, for every three members of the General 
 Assembly of Maryland. Counties having a representation of five 
 shall be entitled to name two free students to the last three 
 institutions named in this section. Students who hold scholar- 
 ships in these Normal Schools shall be entitled to tuition and 
 text-books free. 
 
 3. The Principal and other members of the Faculty of the 
 State Normal Schools shall be appointed annually by the State 
 Board of Education, the members of which being ex officio trus- 
 tees of said schools, and all of said appointments shall be made 
 so as to expire on the 31st day of July of each year, such date 
 being the end of the fiscal year. 
 
 4. The sessions of the State Normal Schools shall begin each 
 year on the second Wednesday of September and shall close 
 not earlier than the second Thursday of June in each year. 
 
 5. There shall be maintained in each State Normal School a 
 two years' Normal or Professional Course in which Elemen- 
 tary and High School branches shall be studied and reviewed 
 and in which special training shall be given in the subjects of 
 "The History of Education," "School Organization and Man- 
 agement," "Psychology," "Theory and Practice of Teaching," 
 
126 BY-LAWS, RULSS AND REGULATIONS 
 
 and such other professional subjects as may be included in the 
 curriculum for Normal Schools. There may be maintained in 
 each of said schools an Academic or Preparatory Course which 
 shall prepare students for the Normal Course; and the scholar- 
 ship afforded by the Academic Course shall be at least equal to 
 the scholastic requirements of the State High School Curric- 
 ulum. 
 
 6. Students of both sexes shall be admitted to both the Nor- 
 mal and Academic Courses. Male students shall be at least 
 seventeen and female students at least sixteen years of age to 
 enter the first year of the Normal Course and shall possess such 
 mental qualifications as graduation from an accredited High 
 School implies. Students who are graduates of an accredited 
 High School, a list of which schools shall be furnished each 
 Normal School Principal annually on or before September first 
 by the State Superintendent, shall be admitted to the first year 
 of the Normal Course without examination, provided such ap- 
 plicant meets the age requirement. Male students for admis- 
 sion to the Academic Course shall be at least fifteen years of 
 age and female students be fourteen years of age. They must 
 furnish satisfactory proof of having completed the work of the 
 eighth grade of the State Course of Study, or be examined by the 
 Faculty of the school, and give satisfactory evidence of mental 
 qualifications equal to same. They shall also furnish satisfactory 
 evidence of good moral character. 
 
 7. All free students to the Normal Schools must receive their 
 scholarships from the Board of County School Commissioners, 
 the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City or from 
 the State Board of Education. Each appointment to a free 
 scholarship must be certified to the State Board of Education 
 on a printed form prescribed by the State Board on or before 
 the twentieth day of August of each year, which certificate of 
 appointment must be signed by the President and Secretary of 
 the respective Boards. Every student thus granted a scholar- 
 ship before being regularly admitted as a student shall make a 
 written declaration to the State Board of Education on a pre- 
 scribed form that he 01 she will teach in the Public Schools 
 of the State, unless, after diligent effort, such person fail to ob- 
 tain a school. 
 
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MARYLAND. 127 
 
 8. Members of the State Board of Education, or competent 
 persons to be appointed by said Board, shall supervise, as far 
 as they maj deem practicable, the final examination of the se- 
 nior year of the Normal Course in these schools, satisfy them- 
 selves that the requirements of the curriculum prescribed for 
 the Normal Course have been properly met and recommend for 
 diplomas such students as they may find worthy of graduation. 
 
 9. Students who fail to pass the examinations for any class 
 at the close of the year cannot re-enter the school as free stu- 
 dents without an order of the State Board of Education. 
 
 10. Students holding free scholarships and desirous to return 
 to the school another year must notify the Principal of such 
 school and also the Secretary of the School Board of the 
 county or city from which the scholarship was obtained on or 
 before the last day of July of each year. The Secretaries of the 
 County and City School Boards must notify the Secretary of 
 the State Board of Education on or before the tenth day of 
 August of every year of new scholarships granted and a list of 
 those students who will return to the school. 
 
 11. In addition to students who hold free scholarships, where 
 the capacity of the school will admit it, a limited number of 
 young men and women, of good moral character and who pos- 
 sess the necessary mental qualifications, will be admitted as 
 pay students the uniform charge for tuition and books to be 
 Twenty-five Dollars per term: Text-books will be furnished all 
 students free of charge, but a deposit of Five Dollars will be 
 required of each student when entering, as a guarantee of 
 proper care and against loss of books. When graduating or 
 leaving school before graduating this fee shall be returned to 
 the student if no books have been lost or unduly worn. 
 
 12. The Principal of each Normal School shall arrange for 
 practical teaching for students of the Normal Course. 
 
 13. All vacant scholarships not filled and reported to the State 
 Board of Education as required by Section 10 of this Article 
 shall be filled by the State Board of Education. 
 
 14. The course of study required by all who would obtain a 
 Normal School Diploma in Maryland covers two years and is 
 designated The Normal Course. To enter that course a student 
 
128 BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 must hold a certificate from an approved High School in Mary- 
 land, or pass examinations on a course equivalent to that pur- 
 sued in such High School, or complete the course herein laid 
 down and designated The Academic Course. The Academic 
 Course covers two years, and to enter the first year of that 
 course a student must have completed the Eighth Grade in the 
 Public Schools of Maryland, according to the schedule adopted 
 by the State Board of Education, or pass examinations equiva 
 lent to that. 
 
 NOTE: The course of study for Normal Schools which is a by-law of the 
 State Board of* Education is published in another pamphlet. 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 1. No pupil will be admitted to school under six years of age 
 nor unless properly vaccinated, free from contagious diseases 
 and decently and comfortably clothed. 
 
 2. The use of profane or unchaste language, the use of to- 
 bacco in any form, and the carrying of fire-arms or other dan- 
 gerous weapons are strictly forbidden ; and any pupil persist- 
 ently violating this rule shall be suspended by the Teacher and 
 the case shall at once be reported to the Board of District 
 School Trustees for their action. 
 
 3. Parents or guardians will be required to replace or pay 
 for all books belonging to the County School Board retained, 
 destroyed or lost by their children or wards; they will also be 
 held responsible and required to pay for all damages done by 
 their children or wards to schoolhouses, furniture, trees, fences, 
 etc., belonging to the school. 
 
 4. All messages sent by parents or guardians to Teachers, 
 or by Teachers to parents or guardians, must be in writing. 
 Charges and complaints against Teachers must be made to the 
 Trustees in writing. No verbal charges should be entertained 
 by the Trustees. 
 
 5. All white children between the ages of six and twenty-one 
 years, residing on or near the dividing line of two counties, 
 have the right to attend the public school nearest to their 
 
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MARYLAND. 129 
 
 place of residence, and should such nearest school be in an- 
 other county than the one in which they reside, upon the same 
 terms and subject to the same rules and regulations as other 
 children attending said schools. In the absence of any joint 
 provision by the Boards of County School Commissioners of 
 the respective counties for the maintenance of said schools, the 
 Board of County School Commissioners of the county in which 
 said children reside should pay to the Board of County School 
 Commissioners in which said school is located, for each pupil 
 so attending a school in an adjoining county, a sum equal to 
 the average cost of each pupil in said school. 
 
 6. In cases where the laws provide that scholars "shall be 
 appointed by the Boards of County School Commissioners, by 
 and with the advice and consent of the State Senator, in their 
 respective counties and Senatorial districts, after a competitive 
 examination of the candidates for such appointments," the in- 
 itiative is the function of the several Boards of County School 
 Commissioners exclusively, the Senator only having the power 
 either to approve or veto such appointment. 
 
 ARTICLE XL 
 High Schools. 
 
 1. High schools may be established by the Board of County 
 School Commissioners with the approval of the State Board of 
 Education, and when established and approved, they shall be 
 under the control of the County School Board, who shall ap- 
 point all teachers and special instructors for the high school 
 grades, and fix salaries for same, which shall not be less than 
 the minimum amounts prescribed by law. 
 
 2. High schools shall be classified as first group and second 
 group high schools, according to enrollment of pupils, teachers 
 employed, and amount and character of work done. The work 
 of each school must be inspected annually by the State Super- 
 intendent, the Assistant State Superintendent, or some com- 
 petent person to be designated by the State Board of Educa- 
 tion,, and each high school principal shall give, on blanks to 
 be furnished by the State Department of Education, such data 
 pertaining to each high school department as may be asked 
 
130 BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 for from time to time. On or before the first day of October 
 of each year the State Board of Education shall certify to the 
 Comptroller a list of high schools entitled to receive State aid, 
 with the amount of the appropriation to be paid by the State 
 Treasurer on account of each school. 
 
 3. High schools of the First Group shall fulfill the following 
 minimum requirements : (a) An enrollment of not less than 
 eighty pupils; (b) employ not less than four teachers for the 
 regular high school work, exclusive of instructors of special 
 subjects named under (e) ; (c) four years' course of instruction 
 of not less than thirty-six weeks in each year, same to con- 
 form to the standard required by the State Board of Educa- 
 tion; (d) the annual salary of the principal to be not less than 
 $1200.00, and the salary of each assistant teacher regularly em- 
 ployed to be not less than $500.00 per annum ; (e) provision to 
 be made for Manual Training and Domestic Science Courses, 
 and also one other special course either a Commercial or an Agri- 
 cultural Course, as may be determined by the Board of County 
 School Commissioners. 
 
 4. High schools of the Second Group shall fulfill the fol- 
 lowing minimum requirements : (a) An enrollment of not less 
 than thirty-five pupils ; (b) employ not less than two teachers 
 for the regular high school work, exclusive of instructors of 
 special subjects named under (e) ; (c) a three years' course of 
 instruction of not less than thirty-six weeks in each year, same 
 to conform to the standard required by the State Board of Edu- 
 cation ; (d) the annual salary of the principal to be not less 
 than $1000.00, and that of each assistant to be not less than 
 $500.00 : (e) provision to be made for a Manual Training, or an 
 Agricultural, or a Commercial Course, as may be determined 
 by the Board of County School Commissioners. 
 
 5. The course of instruction in schools of the Second Group 
 may be extended to four years by the Board of County School 
 Commissioners, by the employment of such additional teacher 
 or teachers as may be required by the State Board of Educa- 
 tion ; provided, that the salary of such additional teacher or 
 teachers shall be paid wholly by the said Board of County 
 
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF" MARYLAND. 131 
 
 School Commissioners; and in those schools of the Second 
 Group, where the course of instruction has been so extended 
 to a four-year course, the graduates shall receive the same rec- 
 ognition as graduates of schools of the First Group. 
 
 6. When application is made to the State Board of Educa- 
 tion for an inspection of a high school of the First Group, there 
 shall be enrolled in the high school department at least eighty 
 pupils, and the number of teachers employed to give the aca- 
 demic instruction shall be at least four at time such application 
 is made ; and for high schools of the Second Group the enroll- 
 ment shall be at least thirty-five, and the number of academic 
 teachers not less than two or the equivalent of two teachers, 
 when application is made. In enrollment of pupils and num- 
 ber of teachers employed for both First and Second Group High 
 Schools, the record for the preceding year will be accepted, un- 
 less for special reasons the State Board of Education shall fix 
 some other basis. 
 
 7. Students of the high school grades shall pursue the 
 branches of study and lines of work laid down in the curricu- 
 lum adopted by the State Board of Education, and shall take 
 such tests and examinations as may be prescribed by the County 
 School authorities. Promotion from one year's grade to an- 
 other, and graduation from the high school department, must 
 have the joint approval of the principal of the school and the 
 Superintendent of Schools of the county in which the high 
 school may be located. Graduates of the academic and other 
 elective courses shall rank equally in recognition, but the di- 
 ploma shall show which course was pursued by the person to 
 whom same is granted. The form of high school diploma shall be 
 prescribed by the State Superintendent and all such diplomas 
 shall be signed by him before same are issued to high school 
 graduates. 
 
 8. In schools of the Second Group that have extended the 
 work to a four years' course, the term "Manual Training" shall 
 be construed to include Domestic Science the former for male, 
 and the latter for female" students. The same instructor may, 
 if practicable, give instruction in both subjects. Two-fifths of 
 the instructor's time shall be required for the school receiving 
 State aid on account of said instructor's services. 
 
132 BY-LAWS, RULKS AND REGULATIONS 
 
 9. Every high school, whether of the First or Second Group, 
 shall have a library of well selected books in which there shall 
 be at least one hundred volumes (exclusive of public documents 
 and text-books furnished the students), which are related to the 
 various subjects taught and which may be used by pupils to 
 reinforce the regular text-book instruction. Such volumes must 
 be approved by the State Department of Education. 
 
 10. Every high school, whether of the First or Second Group, 
 must have a science laboratory located in a suitable room, which 
 shall be equipped by January 15, 1913, with not less than $250 
 worth of apparatus, and material in proper portions for the teach- 
 ing of the various science branches required to be taught, and 
 such additional amounts of apparatus and material as the State 
 Board of Education may, from time 'to time, require on six 
 months' notice. All orders for apparatus shall be approved by 
 the State Superintendent before being placed. 
 
 11. Instructors in the manual training, domestic science, com- 
 mercial or agricultural courses must hold a certificate of pro- 
 ficiency in such subjects as they are required to teach, same to 
 be approved by both the State and County Superintendents. In 
 case any such instructor does not hold such a certificate, he or 
 she shall take such an examination as may be prescribed by 
 the County Superintendent, with the approval of the State Su- 
 perintendent. 
 
 12. Thirty days prior to making the annual levy in each county, 
 the Board of County Commissioners shall submit to the County 
 Commissioners a list of all the high schools of the county, with 
 a detailed statement of the cost of instruction in such schools, 
 and publish same for at least two weeks in one or more of the 
 papers published in said county. 
 
 13. Any high school, of either First or Second Group, receiv- 
 ing State aid under the provisions of the High School Law of 
 1910, Ch. 386, shall forfeit any special State appropriation here- 
 tofore made for such schools, except academic appropriations 
 made prior to 1872. 
 
 14. State aid is based on the cost of instruction and for First 
 Group Schools is as follows : The sum of $600.00 on account 
 of the principal, and the sum of $300.00 on account of each of 
 
PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MARYLAND. 133 
 
 the first three assistants employed for regular high school work ; 
 the sum of $400.00 on account of each of two special teachers, 
 who shall spend not less than two-fifths of their time in the 
 school receiving said amounts ; and the sum of $100.00 on account 
 of each additional regular grade teacher, provided the total 
 amount does not exceed the sum of $2500.00. For Second Group 
 Schools : The sum of $600.00 for the principal, and $400.00 for 
 one assistant teacher employed to do regular grade or academic 
 work ; the sum of $400.00 for salary of one special instructor, 
 provided that if an instructor in manual training or agriculture 
 be required to divide his or her time among not more than four 
 schools of this group, $150.00 shall be allowed on account of 
 each school ; provided further, that the total amount for any 
 one school of the Second Group shall not exceed $1400.00. 
 
 15. Where grade work below that of the high school depart- 
 ment is done in the same building or on the same premises, such 
 grade work may be under the control of the County School 
 Board, and the principal of the high school shall be principal 
 also for the grades below those of the high school department. 
 
 RULES FOR THE CARE AND DISTRIBUTION OF FREE 
 
 TEXT-BOOKS IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
 
 OF MARYLAND. 
 
 Recommended by the State Board of Education. 
 
 1. The Secretary of each Board of County School Commis- 
 sioners shall keep an account, in a book for that purpose, of 
 all text-books purchased by the Board, and of all text-books fur- 
 nished to the different schools in the several counties. 
 
 2. Each Principal shall make out requisition to the Secretary 
 of the Board of County School Commissioners for the text- 
 books needed and authorized for use in his school ; and in filling 
 the same, the Secretary shall deliver such text-books to the or- 
 der of the Principal. 
 
 3. Each Principal shall be held responsible for the proper care 
 and return of all text-books delivered to the school under his 
 charge. 
 
134 BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 4. The Principal of each school shall issue text-books for use 
 of the several rooms therein, on the requisition of the teachers, 
 and shall keep an account with each teacher of the text-books 
 so issued. Teachers shall be held accountable for the care and 
 proper use of all text-books issued to them by the Principal. 
 Each teacher shall also keep an account with every pupil, in a 
 book provided for that purpose, of the text-books in use. 
 
 5. Before text-books are delivered to pupils, labels shall be 
 pasted in each text-book, stating the number, district and county 
 of the school, and the ownership of the text-books by the Board 
 of County School Commissioners, with admonition for the 
 proper care of the text-book, and each text-book should be cov- 
 ered with "Holden's Perfect Book Cover," or an equivalent, to 
 be changed whenever necessary. The labels and book covers 
 should be furnished by the County School Boards. 
 
 6. Text-books may be taken home by the pupil, when, in the 
 judgment of the teacher, it is necessary for study or preparation 
 of lessons. 
 
 7. All text-books in any school, not in use for the time be- 
 ing, shall be promptly returned to the teacher for safe-keeping, 
 and not allowed to lie about the room. 
 
 8. Any pupil wilfully destroying or injuring a text-book shall 
 be required to replace or pay for same, and may be deprived 
 of the privileges of the school until this requirement is com- 
 plied with. 
 
 9. In case of the resignation, withdrawal or removal of teach- 
 ers, a report of the text-books and supplies on hand shall be 
 made by them to the Principal, who shall make an examina- 
 tion to ascertain if all text-books are on hand, and in proper or- 
 
 . der, or if otherwise properly accounted for, and shall certify 
 the same to the Secretary of the Board of County School Com- 
 missioners before the salary of the teachers for the last term 
 preceding such resignation, withdrawal or removal shall be paid. 
 
 10. Ten days prior to the close of each term a report on the 
 proper blanks shall be made to the Principal by each teacher 
 of all text-books previously issued under the Free Text-Book 
 Law, showing the number and condition of said text-books. 
 After ascertaining the correctness there'of, the Principal shall, 
 
PUBUC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF MARYLAND. 135 
 
 within ten days after the close of the term, make a like report 
 to the Secretary of the Board of County School Commissioners, 
 of all text-books issued during the term of the school of which 
 he has charge, indicating any discrepancies that may exist in 
 the account of any teacher. The Secretary shall withhold the 
 last payment of the salary of any teacher whose account is 
 found to be incorrect, until the matter is adjusted to his satis- 
 faction. 
 
 11. Each Board of County School Commissioners, before the 
 first day of October in each year, shall report to the State Board 
 of Education the number of text-books issued to each school 
 during the preceding year, with the number lost or destroyed, 
 the number on hand and their condition, and the amounts re- 
 ceived for fines for injuries to text-books, and for total de- 
 struction or loss of text-books ; and the title, the name of the 
 publisher, and the net price paid for each text-book purchased 
 for publication in the Annual State School Report. 
 
 12. All Principals shall be required to send to the office of the 
 Secretary of the Board of County School Commissioners im- 
 mediately upon the receipt of any text-books a statement giv- 
 ing the quantities and condition thereof. Any text-books which 
 are defective in any way shall be at once set aside and not used. 
 
INDEX TO LAWS. 
 
 * A. 
 
 SECTION PAGE 
 
 Age of school pupils 63 29 
 
 Age of teachers 74 
 
 Agriculture, teaching of 147 
 
 Alcoholic drinks 45 23 
 
 Alcoholic drinks and narcotics, duty of school officials with 
 
 regard to 46 
 
 Anne Arundel County Academy, special appropriation to 141 56 
 
 Annual report, State Board of Education 90, 91 38 
 
 Appointment of 
 
 Assistant Superintendent of Public Education 21 13 
 
 Assistant teachers 47,25 23,14 
 
 Attendance officers 156, 162 61,63 
 
 County Superintendent 22 13 
 
 District school trustees 7 8 
 
 Grade supervisors 77 34 
 
 Members of Board of County School Commissioners 6 7 
 
 Members of State Board of Education 5 6 
 
 Principal teachers 31 18 
 
 State Superintendent of Public Education 18 11 
 
 Appropriation for 
 
 Approved high schools 127, 128 49,50 
 
 Colored industrial schools 144 57 
 
 District libraries 99 40 
 
 Farmers' Institute 151 59 
 
 Free text-books 71 31 
 
 Frostburg Normal School 88 39 
 
 Library Commission 104 37 
 
 Manual Training in'Charles county Note. 58 
 
 New Normal School 83 
 
 Normal schools 88 37 
 
 Ocean City Education Building ch. 227 92 
 
 Public schools for 1915-1916 135 53 
 
 School Survey, ch. 844 85 
 
 State Normal School No. 3 ch. 228, 88 95,37 
 
 Arbor Day pamphlet 19 11 
 
 Assistant County Superintendent, appointment of 76 33 
 
 Assistant teachers 
 
 Appointment of 25, 47 14,23 
 
 Number of pupils required for 47 23 
 
 Assistant Superintendent of Public Education 
 
 Appointment of 21 13 
 
 Duties of 21 13 
 
 Removal of 21 13 
 
 Salary of 21 13 
 
 Term of office of 21 13 
 
 Association 
 
 State teachers' 95, 96 39 
 
 Teachers' county 96, 97, 98 39, 40 
 
 Attendance officer 
 
 Appointment and number of 156, 162 61,63 
 
 Duty of . . . 157 61 
 
 Duty of to inspect mills and factories 161 63 
 
 Attendance, compulsory 153-172 60,65 
 
138 INDEX 
 
 B. 
 
 SECTION PAGE 
 
 Baltimore City ch. 16 45 
 
 Board of School Commissioners 121 45 
 
 School census of 159 62 
 
 Bequests for public schools 175 66 
 
 Boards, formation of ch. 2 6 
 
 Board of Commissioners of Public Schools of Baltimore City 
 
 Duties and powers of 122 46 
 
 Report to State Board of Education 28, 122 17, 46 
 
 Board of County School Commissioners 
 
 Appointment of , 6 7 
 
 Body politic and corporate 23 14 
 
 Clerk to 22 13 
 
 Duties and powers of 25 14 
 
 General jurisdiction 3 6 
 
 General powers of 25 14 
 
 Minority representation 6 7 
 
 Number of members in different counties 6 7 
 
 Organization of 22 13 
 
 gualification of members 6 . 7 
 
 emoval of members 6, 29 7,17 
 
 Report to State Board 28, 78 17, 34 
 
 Right of appeal to 55, 64 26,29 
 
 Salary of members 22 13 
 
 Seal of 23 14 
 
 Secretary and treasurer of 22, 78 21, 34 
 
 Teacher debarred as member of 30 17 
 
 Term of office of members 6 7 
 
 To hold county school property 24 14 
 
 To assume duties of district trustees 36 20 
 
 Vacancies, how filled 6, 29 7,17 
 
 Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City 121 45 
 
 Board of District School Trustees 
 
 Appointment of 7 8 
 
 General jurisdiction 4 6 
 
 Oath and organization 7 8 
 
 Term of office of members 7 8 
 
 Bond of secretary and treasurer, County School Board 78 34 
 
 Bond. Issue for New Normal School 78 
 
 Books, text ch. 10 30 
 
 Branches to be taught 44 22 
 
 C. 
 Certificates 
 
 Classification of 61 28 
 
 College diplomas for high school teachers 53 25 
 
 Extension of 73 32 
 
 Grades of 73 32 
 
 Kinds of 53 25 
 
 Life 58 26 
 
 Registration of 73 
 
 Subjects required for first grade 73 
 
 Subjects required for second grade 73 32 
 
 Charges against teacher 57 26 
 
 Charlotte Hall, scholarships to 190, 191 
 
 Classification of certificates, bases for 61 
 
 Clerk to Board of County School Commissioners 22 13 
 
 Salary of 22 13 
 
INDEX 139 
 
 SECTION PAGE 
 
 Clerk to State Board of Education 19 11 
 
 Salary of 19 11 
 
 Colleges, departments of pedagogy of 54 25 
 
 Approved list of 15 A 10 
 
 Colored industrial schools ch. 20 56 
 
 Appropriation for 144 57 
 
 Certified list of 146 58 
 
 C9ntrol of 144 57 
 
 Division of appropriation 142 56 
 
 Establishment of 142 , 56 
 
 Inspection of 143 56 
 
 Report to Comptroller. 143 56 
 
 Restriction of appropriation for 145 57 
 
 Colored Normal School 193 
 
 Colored schools ch. 18 52 
 
 Establishment of 131 52 
 
 No separate fund for 133 
 
 Supervisor of 144 
 
 Taxes paid by colored people for 134 52 
 
 Trustees of 132 52 
 
 Commission 
 
 Library '. ch. 15 
 
 Normal School building 75, 78 
 
 Comptroller 
 
 Right to equalize apportionments of school tax 139 55 
 
 To report to State Board of Education 138, 140 54, 55 
 
 Compulsory school attendance 
 
 Ages of 153, 162 60,63 
 
 Of deaf and blind children 168 64 
 
 Of deaf or blind, penalty for violation 170, 171 65 
 
 Punishment for violation 154, 155 68 
 
 Report of absence or irregularity of attendance 160 63 
 
 When excused from 153 68 
 
 Condemnation of schoolhouse sites 39 21 
 
 Consolidation of schools 25, 43 14, 22 
 
 Constitution of 1867 
 
 Provisions of , for public schools 5 
 
 Contract, teachers' 55 26 
 
 County commissioners, authority to levy school tax 26 15 
 
 County libraries : 106-119 41-45 
 
 County or municipal libraries 105 41 
 
 County school commissioners, board of 6 7 
 
 County school report 28 17 
 
 County superintendent ch. 11 32 
 
 County Superintendent 
 
 Appointment of 22 13 
 
 Approval of promotion and graduation of high school 
 
 students 126 47 
 
 Beginning of term of 22 13 
 
 Bond of 78, 79 34 
 
 Examination of 14 10 
 
 Examination of teachers by 72 32 
 
 Frequency of school visits 76 33 
 
 Notice to Comptroller 81 35 
 
 Removal of 11 9 
 
 Salary of 80 35 
 
 Supervision by 76 33 
 
 Curriculum 44, 45 22, 23 
 
140 INDEX 
 
 D 
 
 SECTION PAGE 
 
 Deaf or blind 
 
 Compulsory attendance of 168 64 
 
 Expense of transportation of to and from school 169 65 
 
 Deaf, blind or feeble-minded children 
 
 Report of names of 172 65 
 
 Degrees 
 
 Requirements for 15> 10 
 
 Department of pedagogy of colleges 54 
 
 Diplomas 
 
 Endorsement of 20 
 
 Of high schools 129 51 
 
 District libraries ch. 15 
 
 Appropriation for 99 40 
 
 List of books for 99 40 
 
 Selection of books 99 40 
 
 District school trustees 
 
 Appointment of 7 
 
 Duties and powers of 31 
 
 Vacancies, how filled 36 
 
 Disturbance of public school, punishment of 51 
 
 Domestic science, teaching of 147 
 
 Donations and bequests for school purposes 175 66 
 
 Duties and powers of 
 
 Board of County School Commissioners 25 
 
 Board of District School Trustees 31 18 
 
 State Board of Education 11 
 
 E. 
 
 Education, provisions of Constitution for 
 
 Endorsement of normal school diplomas of other States 20 
 
 Examiner 
 
 Change of title of 173 66 
 
 Examination of 
 
 County superintendent 14 10 
 
 Examination of 
 
 Pupils 49 24 
 
 Teachers 72 
 
 Teachers, age of candidates 74 
 
 Expulsion and suspension of pupils 64 
 
 F. 
 Farmers' Institute 
 
 Appropriation for 151 
 
 Department of Agricultural College 150 59 
 
 Director of 150 59 
 
 Place and frequency of 149 
 
 Purpose of 148 
 
 Report of expenditures 152 
 
 Fiscal year, ending of 52 
 
 Formation of boards ch. 2 
 
 Free books 68 
 
 Free school fund 136 
 
 Distribution of* 136 
 
 Frostburg Normal School 82 
 
 Appropriations for improvements 90 
 
INDEX 141 
 
 G. 
 
 SECTION PAGE 
 
 Grades of certificates 73 32 
 
 Grade supervisors 
 
 Appointment of 77 34 
 
 Qualification of 77 34 
 
 H. 
 
 Health 73 
 
 Health certificate of teacher and janitor ch. 165 83 
 
 High schools ch. 17 47 
 
 Admission of graduates of to colleges 129 51 
 
 Application for approval 127 49 
 
 Appropriation for 127 49 
 
 Approval of teachers' certificates 126 47 
 
 Branches taught 126 47 
 
 Control of 125 47 
 
 Course of instruction 126 47 
 
 Diplomas of 129 51 
 
 Encouragement of 126 47 
 
 Establishment of 125 47 
 
 First group of, defined 126 47 
 
 Grouping of 126 47 
 
 Minimum salary of teachers of 126 47 
 
 Preparation of courses 130 51 
 
 Promotion and graduation of pupils 126 47 
 
 Publication of cost of 128 50 
 
 Second group of, defined 126 47 
 
 State aid for 128 50 
 
 High school teachers- 
 Certification of 53 25 
 
 Holidays 52 24 
 
 I. 
 
 Income for public schools '. ch. 19 53 
 
 Industrial schools, colored ch. 20 56 
 
 Invested school funds, exemptions from taxation of 175, 176 66 
 
 Institutes 
 
 Farmers' 148-152 59,60 
 
 Joint 92 38 
 
 Manual 19 .11 
 
 Summer school in lieu of 92 38 
 
 Teachers' . ..ch. 13 38 
 
 J. 
 
 Joint institutes 92 38 
 
 Justice of the peace, power to punish 51 24 
 
 L. 
 
 Length of school term 43 22 
 
 Libraries . ..ch. 15 40 
 
142 INDEX 
 
 SECTION PAGF 
 
 Library Commission 
 
 Appropriation for 104 41 
 
 Organization of 101 40 
 
 Personnel of 100 40 
 
 Report of , 102 40 
 
 Traveling libraries 103 
 
 Libraries, county 106-119 41-45 
 
 Baltimore county exempt from provisions of law 120 
 
 Directors of 110 
 
 Directors, organization, duties and powers of 1 
 
 Directors, vacancies HI . 43 
 
 Establishment of 106 
 
 Funds separate 113 
 
 Gifts and donations to 117 
 
 Mutilation of property 115 
 
 Municipalities 109 
 
 Petition for 108 
 
 Property exempt from taxation 119 
 
 Report to, County Commissioners 116 
 
 Reading room of 114 
 
 State publication 118 45 
 
 Tax for 107 
 
 Life certificates 58 26 
 
 Local school tax 
 
 Held inviolable 26 
 
 Minimum rate of 26 
 
 M. 
 Maryland Agricultural College 
 
 Board of Trustees of 177 66 
 
 To receive Federal appropriation 177A, 177B 
 
 Maryland Day, observance of 52 
 
 Maryland Institute, scholarships to 182 
 
 Maryland State Normal School Building Commission 75 
 
 (Chapter 352, Acts 1910, Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4.) 
 Maryland State Teachers' Association 
 
 Publication of proceedings 19 11 
 
 Maryland State University ch. 198 
 
 Maryland Public Library Commission 99-119 40-45 
 
 Manual training in Charles county 
 
 Appropriation for Note. 
 
 Manual training, teaching of 147 58 
 
 Mayor and City Council of Baltimore 
 
 Authority of to levy taxes for schools. . 124 46 
 
 Authority of to protect school property 123 46 
 
 Authority of to establish schools 121 
 
 Medical examination of pupils, teachers and janitors ch. 165 
 
 Minimum rate of local school tax 26 
 
 Minimum salaries for teachers 59, 60, 60A 27 , 28 
 
 N. 
 
 Normal school diplomas of other States, endorsement of 20 12 
 
 Normal schools 
 
 Bond issue for new plant 
 
 Report of to State Board of Education 17 
 
 State ch. 12 35 
 
 Trustees of 16 
 
 Numbering of schools 42 
 
INDEX 143 
 
 SECTION PAGE 
 O. 
 
 Oaths, administration of 23 14 
 
 Ocean City Educational building ch. 227 92 
 
 Outbuildings 32 
 
 Requirements for 33 18 
 
 P. 
 
 Parental school 158 61 
 
 Establishment of 158 61 
 
 Pedagogic training required after June 1, 1915 53 25 
 
 Pedagogy, department of for colleges and universities 54 25 
 
 Pensions 
 
 Annual amount of 62 29 
 
 Conditions of granting 62 29 
 
 Plans and drawings, by whom issued 41 22 
 
 Powers of State Board of Education 11 9 
 
 Principal teachers, appointment of .' 31, 55 18, 26 
 
 Professional certificates 15 10 
 
 Program of teachers' institutes 20 12 
 
 Public schools 
 
 Mandatory 1 5 
 
 Provisions of Constitution for 5 
 
 Punishment for disturbing public schools 51 24 
 
 Pupils ch. 9 29 
 
 Age of 43 22 
 
 Age of admission to school 63 29 
 
 Examination of 49 24 
 
 Medical examination of ch. 165 83 
 
 Right to attend nearest school 65 30 
 
 Suspension and expulsion of 64 29 
 
 Transportation of 25 14 
 
 Vaccination of 66 30 
 
 Q. 
 
 Quarterly report 56 26 
 
 R. 
 
 Reading Circle 95 39 
 
 Repair of school buildings 25 14 
 
 Reports 
 
 Board of County School Commissioners to State Board.. 78 34 
 
 County School Commissioners 28 17 
 
 Forms of 13 
 
 Library Commission 102 40 
 
 State aided schools 17 11 
 
 State Board of Education 90 38 
 
 State Board of Education, printing of 91 
 
 Teachers quarterly 56 26 
 
 S. 
 Salary 
 
 Minimum for all white teachers 59 27 
 
 Minimum for teachers holding first-class certificates 60 27 
 
 Minimum for teacher having pedagogic training 60A 27 
 
144 INDEX 
 
 SECTION PAGE 
 Salary Continued 
 
 Of Assistant Superintendent of Public Education 21 13 
 
 Of Clerk to Board of County School Commissioners 22 13 
 
 Of Clerk to State Board of Education 19 11 
 
 Of County Superintendent 80 35 
 
 Of members of Board of County School Commissioners.. 22 
 
 Of Superintendent of Public Education 19 11 
 
 Sanitation 33 18 
 
 Scholarships 
 
 Charlotte Hall 190, 191 72 
 
 Maryland Institute 182 69 
 
 St. John's College 179 68 
 
 St. Mary's Female Seminary 178 68 
 
 State Normal Schools 85 35 
 
 Washington College 185-189 69-71 
 
 Western Maryland College 180, 181 69 
 
 Schools- 
 Closing of an account of attendance 48 23 
 
 Consolidation of 25,43 14,22 
 
 Daily session of 50 
 
 Disturbance of 57 26 
 
 Hours for teaching 51 24 
 
 How numbered and designated 42 22 
 
 For colored children 131-134 52 
 
 Survey of ch. 844 85 
 
 School attendance, compulsory '. 153-172 60-65 
 
 School buildings 
 
 Repair and construction of 25 14 
 
 Use of 34 19 
 
 Use of for public meetings 34A, 34B, 34C 19,20 
 
 School districts 
 
 Boundaries of 27 15 
 
 Combination of 35 20 
 
 How laid out 27 15 
 
 Maximum size of 27 15 
 
 Minimum number of registered voters in 35 20 
 
 Schoolhouse sites 
 
 Condemnation of 39 21 
 
 Purchase of 38 21 
 
 Purchase or condemnation of 40 22 
 
 Selection of 37 21 
 
 Titles to 38 21 
 
 Schools near county lines, joint support of 174 66 
 
 School property 
 
 By whom held 24 14 
 
 Sale or lease of 38 21 
 
 School tax ch. 19 11 
 
 State rate for 1913 and 1914 135 53 
 
 School term 
 
 Designation of 52 24 
 
 Fraction of 52 24 
 
 Length of 43 22 
 
 School year 
 
 Division of 52 24 
 
 Minimum length of and penalty for violation 138 54 
 
 Secretary of Board of County Commissioners 78 34 
 
 Sources of income ch. 19 11 
 
INDEX 145 
 
 SECTION PAGE 
 
 State Board of Education ch. 3 9 
 
 Appointment of 5 5 
 
 Appropriation for expenses 10 9 
 
 Clerk to 19 11 
 
 Duties and powers of 11-15 A 9, 10 
 
 Ex-officio members 5 6 
 
 Expenses of members 10 9 
 
 General jurisdiction 2 6 
 
 Honorary members 5 6 
 
 L/ocation of office 9 9 
 
 Meetings of 8 9 
 
 Members of 1914 3 
 
 Minority representation on 5 5 
 
 Report of 90 38 
 
 Right of appeal to 29, 57 17, 26 
 
 Term of office of members 5 6 
 
 Vacancies, how filled 5 6 
 
 State Normal Schools ch. 12 35 
 
 Appointment of assistants 82 35 
 
 Appointment of principals 82 35 
 
 Appropriations for ch. 228, 88 95, 37 
 
 Courses, professional and academic 85 35 
 
 Donations and bequests for 89 38 
 
 Faculties of 83 35 
 
 Location of 82 35 
 
 \l odel of practice school 87 37 
 
 Pay students 86 37 
 
 Practice teaching 87 37 
 
 Scholarships 85 35 
 
 Sessions of 84 35 
 
 Students, ages of admission 85 35 
 
 Teachers' salaries, how fixed 83 35 
 
 Y'acant scholarships, how filled 85 35 
 
 State Normal School No. 3. 
 
 Appropriations for ch. 228, 88 95, 37 
 
 Purpose and control of 193 72 
 
 State school fund, restriction on 5 
 
 State school tax ch. 19 53 
 
 State school tax 26 15 
 
 Apportionment of 137 54' 
 
 Dates of distribution 138 54 
 
 State Superintendent of Public Education 
 
 Appointment of ; . . 18 11 
 
 Duties and powers of 20 12 
 
 Grouping of high schools by 127 49 
 
 J nspection of high schools by 127 49 
 
 Report of high school inspection 127 . 49 
 
 State Teachers' Association 
 
 Body politic 95 
 
 Reading Circle, managed by 95 39 
 
 State Teachers' Reading Circle 95 39 
 
 State University of Maryland ch. 198 87 
 
 St. John's College, scholarships to 179 68 
 
 St. Mary's Female Seminary, scholarship to 178 68 
 
 Stimulants and narcotics 45 
 
 Summer Schools in lieu of Institutes 92 38. 
 
 Supervision ch. 1 6 
 
 Supervision by County Superintendent 76 33 
 
146 INDEX 
 
 SKCTION PACK 
 
 Supervisors, appointment and qualification of 77 34 
 
 Supervisor of colored schools 144 57 
 
 Superintendent of Public Education 
 
 Appointment of 18 11 
 
 Appropriation for expenses and publications 19 11 
 
 Member of State Board of Education 18 11 
 
 Removal of 18 11 
 
 Salary of 19 11 
 
 Term of office of 18 11 
 
 Survey Commission.. ..eh. 844 85 
 
 T. 
 
 Tax, school ch. 19 53 
 
 Teachers 
 
 Certification of 53 25 
 
 Charges against moral character 57 26 
 
 Pedagogic training required after June 1, 1915 -53 25 
 
 Health, certificate of ch. 165 9 83 
 
 Minimum age of 74 33 
 
 Teachers' certificate, nullification of 57 26 
 
 Teachers' contract 55 26 
 
 Confirmation of 55 26 
 
 Teachers' Association ch~ 14 39 
 
 Organization of and lecturers 97 40 
 
 Place of meetings 98 40 
 
 Purpose of 96 
 
 Teachers' examinations 73 32 
 
 Teachers' institutes ch. 13 38 
 
 Dates of 20 12 
 
 Date, by whom fixed 93 39 
 
 Instructors 94 39 
 
 Joint 92 38 
 
 Place, by whom fixed 93 
 
 Summer school in lieu of 92 38 
 
 When held and length of 92 38 
 
 Teachers' life certificates 58 
 
 Teachers' pensions 62 29 
 
 Teachers' principal 
 
 Appointment of 55 26 
 
 Removal of 55 26 
 
 Teachers' salaries -. 59, 60 
 
 Teachers' term report 56 
 
 Text-books ch. 10 30 
 
 Amount of appropriation for 71 
 
 Adoption and purchase of 68 
 
 Apportionment of appropriation 71 
 
 Appropriation for, inviolable 70 
 
 Character of 67 
 
 Competitive bidding for purchase of 68 
 
 Delivery and care of 69 
 
 Free of cost 68 
 
 Purchase of 25 
 
 Report concerning to State Board 68 
 
 Supplementary, purchase of 70 31 
 
 Transportation of pupils 25 
 
 Traveling libraries 1 3 
 
INDEX 147 
 
 SECTION. PAGE. 
 
 Treasurer of Board of County School Commissioners 78 34 
 
 Trustees, Board of District School 7 
 
 Trustees of colored schools 132 52 
 
 Trustees of Normal schools 16 11 
 
 U 
 
 Universities and colleges 
 
 Departments of pedagogy in 54 25 
 
 Approved list of 15A 11 
 
 University, Maryland State ch. 198 87 
 
 V. 
 
 Vacation 52 24 
 
 Vaccination, duty of teacher as to 73 
 
 (Section 31, Article 43 of Code.) 
 
 Physicians fees for 73 
 
 (Section 31, Article 43 of Code.) 
 
 Vaccination of school children 66 30 
 
 W 
 
 Washington's Birthday, observance of 52 24 
 
 Washington College, scholarships to 185-189 69-71 
 
 Western Maryland College, scholarships to 180,181 69 
 
 INDEX TO BY-LAWS, RULES, ETC. 
 
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 State Board of Education 99 
 
 State Superintendent of Public Education 101 
 
 Boards of County School Commissioners 103 
 
 District School Trustees 107 
 
 County Superintendent 109 
 
 Teachers 114 
 
 Certificates, Teachers' 119 
 
 Course of Pedagogy for Colleges 122 
 
 Schools 123 
 
 Normal Schools 125 
 
 Academic Course 125 
 
 Normal Course 125 
 
 Miscellaneous 128 
 
 High Schools 129 
 
 Care of Text-books . 133 
 
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