ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 539

for the use and benefit of public, primary, free or high schools, are hereby transferred to and vested in the Board of County School Commissioners and their successors in office.	Property how vested.
Sec. 4. The Board of County School Commis- sioners shall have the general supervision and control of all schools in their respective counties; they shall build, repair and furnish the school houses; they shall fix and pay the salaries of teachers; they shall purchase and distribute text books, and shall perform such other duties as may be necessary to secure an efficient administration of the public school system, subject to the provi- sions of this law.	General super- vision.
Sec. 5. The State school tax and free school fund are primarily intended under this Act, to pay the salaries of the teachers of the several counties. and to provide school books and stationery for the children of the State ;if, Viowever, in apportion- ing the said State school tax among the different counties and the city of Baltimore, the share of any county should prove inadequate for the pur- poses aforesaid, then the County Commissioners of such county are hereby authorized, empowered, directed and required to levy and collect such a tax upon the assessable property of such county, as the Board of County School Commissioners shall designate as sufficient, to make good the defici- ency;provided, said tax shall not exceed ten cents in the hundred dollars, unless the County Com- missioners shall approve and sanction an ad-	Salaries and school books.
ditional tax ; the taxes so levied and collected shall be paid quarterly on the day fixed for the payment of the State school tax to the several counties, but the proceeds from special taxes may be paid oftener, upon the order of the Board of County School Commissioners to the Treasurer of the said Board of County School Commissioners, in order that the schools of such counties may be kept open for the time herein set forth, and said tax shall be levied and collected as other taxes; any sums of money which may have been specially collected or levied on any election or school house district for educational purposes connected with those districts, shall be collected for and applied to the purposes so intended originally, and shall	Levy tax.