Sue. 4. The Board of County School Commis-
sioners shall have the general supervision and con-
trol of all schools in their respective counties; they
shall build, repair and furnish school-houses; they
shall fix the salaries of teachers; they shall purchase
and distribute text hooks, and shall perform such
other duties as may be necessary to secure an efficient
administration of the public school system, subject
to the provisions of this law.
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 Looks and stationery for the chil-
dren of the State. If, however, in apportioning the
said State school tax among the different counties
and the City of Baltimore, the share of any county
should prove inadequate for the purposes aforesaid,
then the County Commissioners of such county are
hereby authorized, empowered, directed and re-
quired to levy and collect such a tax upon the assess-
able property of such county as the Board of County
School Commissioners shall designate as sufficient to
make good the deficiency; provided, said tax shall
not exceed ten cents in the hundred dollars, unless
the Comity Commissioners shall approve and sanction
fin addition id tax The taxes go levied and collected
shall 1) be paid quarterly, on the day fixed for the pay-
ment 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 said 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 these districts, shall be col-
lected for and applied to the purposes so intended
originally, and shall be used for no other purpose;
and if said funds have been used otherwise they
shall be) be returned and applied as aforesaid.
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