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their respective counties, such amount of money as may be
required by the Board of Public Education, for the support
of such schools.
And there shall be levied upon the taxable property
of the State as other State taxes are levied and collected, a
general tax of five cents on the hundred dollars of valuation,
for the use of the Public School fund of the State, which
shall with any other School funds of the State be distributed
annually by the Comptroller of the State among the several
counties and the city of Baltimore, according to the number
of children attending Public Schools in each respectively the
previous year.
And there shall be appointed by the General Assembly of
Maryland in convention, a suitable person as Inspector
of Public Schools for the State at large, who shall hold his
office for two years, and shall provide such compensation for
his services as they may deem best, and the person chosen In-
spector as herein provided, shall from time to time, and as
often as possible, visit the several Schools of the State, and
render such service as may be required by law.
And the control of all the Public Schools property
in each county, shall be transferred to the Boards of Public
Education in each, and the property of the State Normal
School and such other property belonging to the State Board
of Public Education, as is not by this article transferred to
the several counties, shall be under the control of the State
Inspector hereby authorized to be appointed.
And the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall have
the same control over the Public Education of that city that
they had before the present system was adopted.
And the General Assembly shall have full power to make
from time to time, such changes in the system of Public Edu-
cation of the State as they may think proper.
Pending the consideration of which,
Mr. Kilbourn moved that the further consideration of the
Report and pending amendments, be postponed until Tuesday
next, 25th inst.. and be printed.
Decided in the negative.
The question then recurring upon the amendment submit-
ted by Mr. Barnes as a substitute for the whole Report ;
Mr. Horsey, of Frederick, demanded the previous ques-
tion;
The question then being "shall the previous question be
now put;"
It was decided in the affirmative.
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