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ments of Maryland, an entire change in the officers of
the Canal Company cannot occur.
The report of the committee on education was then
taken up.
Mr. Barnes submitted the following as a substitute for
the entire article:
Sec. 1. The system of public education now existing
shall continue until the first day of March, 1868, and as
soon as this constitution shall be ratified shall be under
the management and control of the present Professor of
the State Normal School, who shall receive the same com-
pensation now provided by law for the superintendent of
public education in the State; and the voters in the several
election districts of each county shall, at the first general
election after the ratification of this constitution, and at
each successive general election for members of the
House of Delegates, elect one school commissioner for each
election district in each county, the return thereof to be
made in the same manner as now required by law for
other county officers, and the persons elected as com-
missioners shall constitute a board of public education for
the respective counties where they are chosen, and the
board so constituted shall have power to provide such sys-
tem of public education for their respective counties as
they may deem best, and they shall have full power to
put the same into operation in their respective counties;
and the county commissioners of each county shall, from
time to time, levy upon the assessable property of their
respective counties, such amount of money as may be re-
quired by the board of public education for the support
of such schools; and there shall be levied upon the tax-
able 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
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