830 SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 19.

removal by the said board, in the same manner and for the same
reasons as are prescribed for the removal of school commissioners,
and shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the said
board of school commissioners may prescribe.

186. The board of school commissioners of said county shall
hold in trust, for and on account of the State of Maryland, or
the said county, as the case may be, all the property set apart
for purposes of public education, belonging to the State or
county, and appropriate the same to the use of the public schools
under their charge; but they shall not have power to dispose of
said property, either by sale, exchange or otherwise, without the
consent of the General Assembly, or of the county commissioners
for said county, according as the said property may be in the
property of the State or of the said county, and in case of dis-
agreement between the board of school commissioners of the said
county and county commissioners, the General Assembly shall
determine.

187. The board of school commissioners may make such rulee
and regulations for their own government as they may deem
proper, and revise, alter and amend the same at pleasure; Pro-
vided, that such rules and regulations shall not be contrary to law.

188. After proper and careful examination, under the direction
of the said board of school commissioners, certificates of profi-
ciency shall be given to such teachers as they may approve; and
they shall also have power to withdraw or cancel such certificates
in such manner as they may deem most advisable, if the said
teachers shall abuse or prove themselves to be unworthy of the
same; but in no case shall they appoint, except temporarily, any
person to be a principal or assistant teacher in any of the schools,
without such examination.

189. The school commissioners shall receive as compensation
for their services one dollar per day for every day they shall be
actually occupied in the performance of their duties, and mileage
at the rate of five cents per mile.

190. The grades of the public schools in Somerset county shall
be primary, grammar and high schools; grammar and high
schools, both male and female, may be established by the board
of school commissioners, whenever the same may be considered
necessary.