THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR, 751

his annual report to the Principal of the State Normal School.
Sec. 9. Whenever the number of children at- tending school in any school district is greater than one hundred, then the Board of County School Commissioners may, with the consent of the trustees, establish schools of different grades, and determine into which school each pupil shall be admitted, or the school district may be divided. And whenever the average attendance in any school for any two consecutive quarters is less than ten pupils, then said school may be closed by the Board of County School Commissioners ; provided, that the trustees of the district may keep the school open in part at the expense of the district, and shall receive their proportion of the school fund for said school, rating a full school at twenty-five scholars.	Number of children.
Sec. 10. The Board of County School Commis- sioners shall publish annually in all of the papers of the county, a statement of the moneys received and expended, setting forth all the financial oper- ations of each district, and if there be no news- papers within the limits of the county, then they shall publish the same in such other form as may be determined, and forward a copy to the Prin- cipal of the State Normal School. CHAPTER IV. The Board of School House District Trustees.	Publish state- ment of mo- neys.
SECTION 1. For the purpose of electing two trustees of the school house district, and deciding such other questions as may arise, an election by ballot shall be held in every such district on the first Saturday of the month of May, at 3 o'clock P. M., in the year eighteen hundred and sixty- eight, and on the first Saturday in May in every year thereafter, at which every registered voter having a legal residence therein shall be entitled to vote, and the School Commissioners for the several counties shall give at least ten days public notice of such elections by advertisement in the newspapers of the county or Baltimore city ; but if no election shall be had on the day aforesaid, then the Board of County School Commissioners shall appoint said trustees.	Electing Trustees.