706 MONTGOMERY COUNTY. [ART. 16.

84*. All powers, rights and privileges lawfully exercised by
any board of commissioners, any trustees of schools or school
commissioners, or any other persons, by whatever name designated,
or by virtue of any act or acts of the General Assembly passed
in relation to public schools, and all moneys, property, estate and
effects now vested by law in any of the said parties hereinbefore
mentioned, respectively, for the use and benefit of said schools
or any of them, and by law made payable to any of the parties
hereinbefore mentioned, are hereby transferred and vested in the
board of commissioners of public schools of Montgomery county.

85*. The said board of commissioners shall have power to
employ teachers and fix their salaries, to prescribe the course of
studies and the books to be used: they shall superintend gene-
rally and particularly all the interests and operations of the
schools under their charge, and shall make all such by-laws for
their government, and rules and regulations for the management
of schools, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, as they
may deem expedient, and the same may modify or repeal at plea-
sure; Provided, that no teacher shall be paid more than three
hundred dollars per annum.

86*. The said board of commissioners shall have power to use
all the public school houses now erected in said county, and also
to lease or rent suitable buildings for school purposes, until said
county shall be districted and laid off into suitable school districts
and houses erected thereon, as hereinafter provided: they shall

•have power to contract for and purchase furniture, books and
stationery, and all necessary supplies, and to furnish the same to
pupils free of charge, if in their discretion they think their parents
or guardians unable to purchase the same.

87*. Whenever the board of commissioners of public schools
may deem it necessary to dispose of any property which they
may hold for the use and benefit of the public schools, they shall
have power, and are hereby authorized, to dispose of said property

•by sale, lease or otherwise, and to give a good and sufficient title
for the same to the purchaser thereof; and the proceeds arising
therefrom shall be applied to the school fund of the county and
appropriated to such purposes as are authorized by this article.
The said board of commissioners shall meet quarterly, or oftener
if necessary, at such time as may be agreed upon; Provided, the
quarterly meetings shall, if possible, be held within the first ten
days of January, April, July and October of each year: it shall