40 ALLEGANY COUNTY. [ART.I.

to call a meeting of the legal voters of said district connected
with said school, by giving public notice thereof at least two
weeks before the time of such meeting, to be set up at such
places in said district nearest to said school; and it shall be the
duty of said legal voters or a majority of them, at such meeting,
•to select and appoint from the persons who shall have been exa-
mined, and who shall have a certificate of his qualification from
the examiners hereinafter provided for; and the teacher so
selected and appointed shall, with the advice and consent of the
said meeting or a majority of the persons composing the same,
select the books of instruction to be used and taught in said
school; and if the parents or guardians of any portion of the
children attending said school, shall have conscientious objec-
tions to any book of instruction introduced into said school, it
shall be the duty of said teacher not to use the books so objected
to by any of said parents or guardians, in teaching the children
of any such parents or guardians.

150*. The said Board of Commissioners 'of Public Schools shall
establish as many schools in each district as in their opinion the
public good may require; and in the location of schools, the board
shall have reference to population and neighborhood, paying due
regard to any school house already built or sites procured; they
shall fix the salaries of teachers, and make all such by-laws for
the government of schools as may be deemed necessary, not in-
consistent with the laws of this State, and the same modify or
repeal at pleasure.

151*. The said Commissioners of Public Schools shall appoint
three discreet and well qualified men, who shall constitute a board
of examiners, whose duty it shall be to examine all persons offer-
ing themselves as teachers, and if they shall be found qualified
to teach the usual branches of a common English education, em-
bracing at least orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, Eng-
lish Grammar and geography, and to possess a good moral
character, to give a certificate to that effect free of all charges;

and no person shall be employed without such certificate; and
the said examinera shall meet in the city of Cumberland at least
four times in the year, at periods to be designated by the school
commissioners, for the examination of candidates for teachers;

no certificate to be given for more than two years, nor for less
than three months.