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180. They may allow instruction to be given in the higher
branches in the public schools, and may charge such additional
fees for tuition in the same as they may deem just and reason-
able.

181. They shall furnish all such necessary books and stationery
for the pupils in said schools, and whatever fuel or other supplies
they may require, to be paid for from the public school fund.

. 182. They shall require each pupil to pay in advance one
dollar and fifty cents per quarter for each quarter he shall con-
tinue in the school, unless exempted therefrom by the board.

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188. If any person or persons shall at any time make a dona-
tion of land or houses and land suitable for public schools, they
shall require deeds of the same to be taken in the name of the
school commissioners of Baltimore county.

184. They shall report annually on the first Monday in January
to the county commissioners, a statement of their transactions,
with an account of the receipts and expenditures of the past
year, and an estimate of the expense for the ensuing year.

185. The county commissioners for said county shall publish
annually, in pamphlet form, not less than one thousand copies of
the annual report of the school commissioners thus made to
them, and seventy-five copies of said report shall be distributed
in each election district in the county.

186*. The county commissioners of Baltimore county shall,
annually, at the time of making the county levy, in addition to
the other levy for the use of schools, levy four cents in the hun-
dred dollars on the assessable property of the county, to be col-
lected as other taxes and to be set apart for the use of public
schools, and applied as herein directed.

187. The proceeds of the levy authorized in the preceding
section shall constitute a distinct fund from all other school funds
in the hands of the school commissioners, and shall be designated
as " the Public School-House Fund," and shall he applied by the
said school commissioners to the purchase of the necessary
ground and erection of school-houses thereon; to the building of
school-houses on ground which may be donated for that object;

to the purchase of school-houses already built and suitably