ART. 19.] SOMERSET COUNTY. 831

191. The privileges of the schools of each grade shall be alike
the property of all citizens of the said county, and no special
favor shall be granted to any person on any account whatsoever.

192. The board of school commissioners shall see that there
shall be taught in the primary schools, orthography, reading,
writing, English grammar, geography and arithmetic, and such
other branches as the said board of school cummiBsioiiers may
require.

193. The following shall be the course of studies in the
grammar schools, viz.: orthography, etymology, reading, writing,
composition, English grammar, geography, history, natural phi-
losophy, arithmetic, algebra, and also, if deemed advisable by the
said board, geometry, mensuration, book-keeping, surveying and
chemistry.

194. The course of studies in the high schools shall be such as
the said board of school commissioners may determine.

195. The terms of tuition of the primary, grammar and high
schools, shall be furnished at the rate of not more than one dollar
per term of twelve weeks, or free of charge to each scholar, in
the discretion of the board; the costs of which, over and above
the amount received for tuition fees, as hereinbefore provided, as
well as all necessary expenses connected with said schools, shall
be obtained by a levy upon the assessable property of the said
county, as hereinafter provided, to supply such deficiency as
may exist after the application of such funds as are or shall
hereafter be appropriated by the State or county, for these
purposes.

196. The admission of pupils to the several schools, shall be
regulated as follows: pupils may be admitted to the grammar
and primary schools by certificates from the commissioners of
the public schools, but no pupil shall be admitted into a high
school but such as shall have received at least one year's in-
struction in a grammar school, and shall have passed such ex-
amination as shall be required by the commissioners; in such
examination, reference shall be had to the moral character of
the applicant, as well as to scholastic attainments, and to his
faithful attendance in the. grammar school, to be ascertained by
a fair and impartial examination, of which a record shall bo
preserved.