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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER IV.—Duties of the County School
Commissioners.
SECTION 1. The Board of Comity School Com-
missioners shall meet for organization, on the first
Tuesday in January next succeeding their appoint-
ment, or as soon thereafter as may be, and elect a
person not a member of the board, who shall serve
as Secretary, Treasurer and Examiner; and notice of
such election, signed by the President of the board,
shall be transmitted to the Comptroller; provided,
that in counties having more than eighty-five schools,
the board may at their discretion appoint one assis-
tant examiner and fix his salary. The board shall
meet once in every school term, and at other times
if necessary, for the transaction of business; each
commissioner shall receive per day for each day of
his attendance at the board, or on committees ap-
pointed by the board, such pay as la allowed the
County Commissioners in the several counties of the
State; provided, that the aggregate amount paid in
one year to commissioners as per diem, or any other
compensation, shall not exceed an average of one
hundred dollars for each commissioner.
SEC. 2. The Board of County School Commis-
sioner's is hereby declared to be a body politic and
corporate, by the name and style of the Board
of Comity School Commissioners of—— county, and
by that name filial 1 have perpetual succession, and
shall be capable to sue and be sued, to have and use
a common seal, and the same at their pleasure to
alter or break, and to exercise all the powers and privileges hereby granted to or vested in them, and every
County School Commissioner shall have power to
take affidavits and administer oaths in all matters
pertaining to public schools, but without charge or
fee.
SEC. 3. All the property, estates, effects, money,
'funds, claims and State donations now vested by law
in the public school authorities of any county, 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.
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