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Designation.
Time shall be
kept open.
Branches to
be taught.
Assistant
may be em-
ployed.
May grade
schools.
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LAWS 'OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER VII.—Schools.
SECTION 1. The schools under the charge of the
Board of County School Commissioners for each.
county, shall respectively be designated school num-
ber one, two, three and. BO forth, of their respective
election districts.
SEC. 2. In every school-house district in each coun-
ty, established as hereinafter provided, there shall be
kept for ten months in each year if possible, one or
more schools, according to population, which shall
be free to all white youths over six and under twenty-
one years of age.
SEC. 3. In every district school there shall be
taught orthography, reading, writing, English
grammar, geography, arithmetic, history of the
United States and good behavior, algebra, book-
keeping, natural philosophy, the constitution of the
United States, the constitution of the State of Mary-
land, and the history of Maryland, vocal music,
drawing, physiology, the laws of health, domestic
economy, shall also be taught; whenever the Board
of District School Trustees shall deem it expedient,
and in districts where there is a considerable German
population, the Board of County School Commis-
sioners are authorized to cause the German language
to be taught if they shall think proper so to do.
SEC. 4. Whenever a school numbers more than
fifty children in average attendance, an assistant may
he employed by the Board of County School Com-
missioners; and for every additional forty children
one teacher may be appointed, and the Board of
County School Commissioners shall direct the divi-
sion of the pupils so as to form a graded school.
SEC. 5. Whenever the number of children attend*
ing school in any school district is greater than one
hundred, then the Board of County School Commis-
sioners may, with the consent of the Board of District
School Trustees, establish schools of different grades,
or the school district may be divided; and whenever
the average attendance in any school for any two
consecutive terms is less than ten pupils, then the
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