650
Visited and
examined.
Military
tactics.
Colored
children.
Under the
direction of.
Apportion
appropriati'n
Devoted to
maintenance.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
constitute a Board of High School Commissioners,
and exercise like authority over said school as here-
inbefore provided for Boards of District School
Trustees; but high schools established by the county
shall be under the direct control of the Board of
County School Commissioners.
SEC. 3. Each high school shall he visited and ex-
amined annually by the Principal of the State Nor-
mal School or a professor thereof; such high school
shall also be visited at least once in each school term
by the County Examiner, who shall report quarterly
to the Board of County School Commissioners the
result of his observations.
SEC. 4. If practicable, military tactics may form a
department in every high school.
CHAPTER XVIII.—" Schools fur Colored Children."
SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Board of
County School Commissioners to establish one or
more public schools in each election district for all
colored youth between six and twenty years of age,
to which admission shall be free, and which shall he
kept open as long as the other public schools of the
particular county; provided, the average attendance
be not less than fifteen scholars.
SEC. 2. These schools shall be under the direction
of the Board of District School Trustees of the re-
spective school districts within the limits of which
they are established; they shall be subject to the
same laws, and furnished instruction in the same
branches as the schools for the white children.
SEC. 3. The Comptroller shall apportion the sum
appropriated for the support of the colored schools
of the several counties and the City of Baltimore, in
proportion to their respective colored population between the ages of five and twenty years; said appor-
tionment to be made at the time he apportions the
levy for the white schools.
SEC. 4. The total amount of taxes paid for school
purposes ) by the colored people of any county, or in
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