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Teachers'
Associations.
Organization
May occupy
school-houses
District
libraries.
The City of
Baltimore.
Power to
examine, ap-
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER XIV.—Teachers' Associations.
SECTION 1. District, County and State Teachers'
Associations are recommended as important means
of elevating the standard of public education by mu-
tual conference, interchange of views and suggestions
as to systems of teaching and discipline.
SEC. 2. It shall be the care of the County Examiner
to aid in the organization of these associations, to en-
courage attendance, to secure competent lecturers,
and to impart such information as will encourage
teachers in their work, and fit them for the perform-
ance of their duties.
SEP. 3. These associations may occupy any of the
school-houses.
CHAPTER XV.—District Libraries.
SECTION 1. For the further encouragement of edu-
cation, district libraries ought to be established in
each school-house district, under the care of the
teacher, as librarian. For this purpose the sum of
ten dollars per annum is ordered to he paid by the
Board of County School Commissioners out of the
State School Fund, to any school-house district as
library money, as long as the people of the district
raise the same amount annually. The books must
be selected by the Board of District School Trustees.
CHAPTER XVI—The City of Baltimore.
SECTION 1. The Mayor and City Council of the
City of Baltimore shall have full power and author-
ity to establish in said city a system of free public
schools, under such ordinances, rules and regula-
tions as they may deem fit and proper to enact and
prescribe; they may delegate supervisory powers
and control to a Board of School Commissioners;
may prescribe rules for building school-houses, and
locating, establishing and closing schools, and may
in general do every act that may be necessary or
proper in the premises.
SEC. 2. The Board of Commissioners of Public
Schools of Baltimore city, or by whatever name the
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