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Duties of
District
School Trus-
tees
Proviso.
Out-buildings.
No to be
used for other
purposes,
Contiguous
portions of
districts may
combine.
Select site for
school-nous's
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER Y.—Duties of the District School Trustees.
SECTION 1. The Board of District School Trustees.
shall have the care of the houses and lands connected
therewith, intended for school purposes; also the
furniture, apparatus and other school property. They
shall attend to all repairs, and charge the cost among
the incidental expenses of the school, to be paid out
of the tax levied upon the assessable property of the
county as herein provided for; prodded, that when
repairs are to he paid out of a county school tax, the
amount to be expended for said repairs, shall be
determined by the Board of County School Com-
missioners before the repairs are made. The Board
shall employ a teacher from among those persons
who hold the certificate required by this law; they
shall exercise a general supervision over their respec-
tive schools, and visit them frequently, and shall
cause instruction to be given for ten months in the
year if possible.
SEC. 2. The Board of District School Trustees,,
shall see that every school-house site is provided
with suitable out Buildings.
SEC. 3. No school-house shall be used for any other
purpose than public school purposes, and school dis-
trict meetings, unless by consent of the Board of
County School Commissioners or a majority of them.
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 contain less,
than thirty-five legal resident voters.
CHAPTER VI.—School-houses and Sites.
SEC. 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
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