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Sec. 3. These Institutes being designed as tem- porary Normal Schools, shall be presided over by the Principal or one of the Professors of the State Normal School, if he can be present, assisted by the County Examiner and any member of the Board of County School Commissioners who may choose to attend.	Who shall preside.
Sec. 4. The President of the Board of County School Commissioners shall select the place of meeting. CHAPTER 14. — Teachers' Associations.	Place of meet- ing.
Section 1. District, county and State teachers' associations are recommended as an important means of elevating the standard of public educa- tion by mutual conference, interchange of views and suggestions as to systems of teaching and dis- cipline.	Teachers' associations
Sec. 2. It shall be the care of the County Exam- iner to aid in the organization of these associa- tions, to encourage attendance, to secure competent lecturers, and to impart such information as will encourage teachers in their work, and fit them for the performance of their duties.	Fxaminer to aid.
Sec. 3. These associations may occupy any of the school houses. CHAPTER 15. — District Libraries. Section 1. For the further encouragement of education, district libraries ought to be established in each school house district under the care of the	Occupy school houses.
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	Libraries.
State school fund, to any school house 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 Com- missioners and teacher. CHAPTER 16. — The City of Baltimore.	Appropriation
Section 1. The Mayor and City Council of the city of Baltimore shall have full power and au- thority to establish in said city a system of free public schools, under such ordinances, rules and	Free schools in Baltimore.