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located, or to the renting or leasing and the necessary repairs of
the same, an^ to the defraying of any expense which may be
properly incident to the said objects.

188. The school commissioners may themselves, or if they
deem it more judicious, may appoint a commission of three or
more persons, with the aid of a surveyor, to lay off and divide
the county into a suitable number of school districts, in each of
which they shall locate one public school, and shall supply at
such location a public school-house capable of accommodating
as many scholars as auch school district may be reasonably
expected to contain.

189. If the school commissioners shall appoint commissioners
and a surveyor to make the division and location directed in the
preceding section, they are authorized upon the return of the
commission and the approval thereof, to pay for such service
such. compensation as they may deem proper.

190. The school commissioners may receive donations for such
sites or locations for school-houses as may be designated, if any
be offered, or may purchase the same and build school-houses
thereon in each of the school districts laid off and approved by
them, or may purchase any house already built which may be
found suitably located in any of said school districts, or may
rent or lease the same in their discretion, but in no case shall
the said commissioners occupy any site or build a school-house
thereon until a good and sufficient title shall have been obtained
for the same in the corporate name of the school commissioners
of Baltimore county.

191. The said school commissioners shall not expend more
than four hundred dollars for the building of any school-house,
or the purchase of any house already built, unless the school
district for which the same is to be built or purchased shall, in
the opinion of the board of school commissioners, be required to
accommodate over one hundred pupils.

192. If the levy of the public school-house fund yields a larger
sum than may be found necessary for the purposes for which it
is levied, the excess shall be carried by the school commissioners
to the credit of the school fund proper of said county,