738 PBINOE GEORGE'S COUNTY. [ART. 16.

first Saturday in May, at the school house in their respective
districts, between the hours of eleven o'clock, A.M., and one
o'clock, P.M., and elect three competent persons, taxable in-
habitants or patrons, to serve as trustees for their respective
schools.

152. The trustees so elected shall appoint teachers for their
respective schools, and may remove any who -are incompetent.

158. They shall visit their schools quarterly, or eftener if
necessary, to superintend the schools; shall make such by-laws
and regulations for their government as they may think proper;

shall conduct all examinations whenever held; may expel any
scholar for bad conduct for any time not exceeding three months
at one time; suspend for a limited time any scholar for irregular
attendance, until they receive assurance from his parent,
guardian, or other person having charge of him, that his at-
tendance will be more regular, and may exclude from said
schools all children under the age of seven years.

• 154. They shall pay the teachers a certain fixed sum, at the
discretion of the general board of trustees of primary schools,
rated either quarterly or monthly, for each scholar admitted
into the respective schools; but no teacher shall receive for any
one year more than three hundred and fifty dollars nor less
than one hundred and fifty.

155. The several teachers shall be chargeable with, and have
deducted from their salaries, such sum as the trustees shall
deem tiuffieient to repair any damage done to their respective
school houaes during their terms, if, in the opinion of the
trustees, such damage could have been prevented by the exer-
cise of reasonable care and diligence on the part of such
teacher.

156. No teacher shall be entitled to receive his salary unless,
4», addition to the verification of his account, he shall produce a
certificate of the local trustees, or three or more respectable
taxable inhabitants, where there are no local trustees, that he
has faithfully discharged his duty as teacher, and the local
trustees shall be the sole judges and have full power to decide
whether a teacher is entitled to receive his salary, and what de-
duction, if any, is to be made for lost time, negligence or inat-
tention, and from their judgment there shall be no appeal; but