BY-LAWS, RULES & REGULATIONS

FOB THE GOVERNMENT OF THE

BOARDS OP SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS

AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF MARYLAND.

By Authority of the State Board of Education.

[Laws of 1865, Chap. 160, Title 1. Chap. 1, Sec. 2. The
State Board shall issue a uniform Code of By-Laws for the
Government of all the County School Boards, and the Schools
and High Schools under their charge.]

ARTICLE I.—The Boards of School Commissioners.

SECTION 1. There shall be stated meetings of the Boards
of School Commissioners of each county, on the first Wed-
nesday after the 16th day of November and April, and on the
first Wednesday after the first Tuesday in February and July.
Special meetings may be convened by the President, he giving
at least five days notice.

SEC. 2. The Board shall have power to determine all ques-
tions of dispute arising in the administration of the School
laws. An accurate record must be made of each case decided,
that, if an appeal be taken to the State Superintendent, all
the facts may be reported.

SEC. 3. The salaries of teachers and all the incidental ex-
penses of the schools, shall be paid by order of the Board,
at the end of each term. If the public money be not suffi-
cient, the Board is authorized to borrow what may be needed,
and to issue its note signed by the President and endorsed by
the Treasurer.

SEC. 4. The business of the Board shall be transacted in
the following order:

1. The President shall take the chair when a legal quorum
of the Board has assembled, shall call the Board to order,
and require the members to be seated.

2. The Secretary shall call the roll, note the absentees, and
read the journal of proceedings of the last meeting.

3. Reports from the Commissioners of the respective Dis-
tricts, alter the manner and form prescribed, shall be received
and referred to the Committee on Accounts.