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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 5 — Duties of the District School Commis-
sioners.

Duty of
Commission's.

Section 1. The Board of District School Com-
missioners shall have the care of the houses and
lands connected therewith intended for school pur-
poses; also of the furniture, apparatus and other
school property. They shall attend to all repairs,
and charge the cost among the incidental expenses

Repairs.

of the school, to be paid out of the tax levied upon
the assessable property of the county as herein
provided for; provided, that when repairs are to
be paid for out of a county school tax, the amount
to be expended for said repairs shall be determined
by the Board of County School Commissioners be-
fore the repairs are made. The Board shall em-
ploy a teacher from among those persons who hold
the certificate required by this law; they shall ex-

Supervision.

ercise a general supervision over their respective
schools, and visit them frequently, and shall cause
instruction to be given for ten months in the year.
Sec. 2. The Board of District School Commis-

Outbuildings.

sioners shall see that every school house site is pro-
vided with suitable outbuildings.

Not to use for
other purposes

Sec. 3. No school house shall be used for any
any other purpose than public school purposes and
school district meetings, unless by consent of the
Board of County School Commissioners, or a ma-
jority of them.

May combine.

Sec. 4. Contiguous portions of two or more school
house districts may, with the consent of the Board
of County School Commissioners, combine and form
a new school house district, and, when thus formed,
the said new school house district shall be invested
with all the rights and powers hereinbefore set
forth as pertaining to such districts; provided, that
the new school house district thus formed, or said
district from which it may be formed, shall not con-
tain less than thirty -five legal resident voters.

CHAPTER 6. — School Houses and Sites.

Site for house

Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Board of
County School Commissioners to select a suitable
school house site in each district, whenever the
necessities of the public schools demand a change
of site or sites already built upon, or a new school
house to be built.