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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

affirmation of office prescribed by the Constitution before the

County School Commissioners, County Superintendent, Clerk

to County School Board, or any other officer duly authorized

to administer oaths.

Location of

9. The office of the State Board of Education shall be in

office.

Annapolis.

10. The members of the board shall receive no salary, but

Board to be

their actual expenses incurred in attending the meeting of the

unsalaried.

board shall be paid, and they are authorized to employ clerical

assistance when necessary ; the Treasurer of the State, upon

the warrant of the Comptroller, is hereby authorized to pay

the president of the board such amount, not exceeding two

thousand dollars per annum, as he shall show to be due for

the necessary expenses.

11. The State Board of Education shall, to the best of their

Duties of
State Board

ability, cause the provisions of this Article to be carried into

of Education.

effect, and may, if necessary, institute legal proceedings for

that purpose with the direction and advice of the Attorney

General ; they shall enact by-laws for the administration of the

Public School System not at variance with this Article, when

enacted and published shall have the force of law ; they shall

have the power to suspend or remove any county superinten-

dent who may be found inefficient or incompetent for the dis-

charge of duties assigned him, or guilty of such moral de-

linquency as unfits him for the office he holds; they shall

explain the true intent and meaning of the law, and they shall

decide without expense to the parties concerned all contro-

versies and disputes that arise under it, and their decision

shall be final.

16. The members of the State Board of Education shall

Ex-officio

trustees.

be e.x-officio trustees of the State Normal School.

17. All schools and colleges and all normal school depart-

To make an-

ments receiving State donations shall make a report on or

nual report.

before the fifteenth clay of September in each year of such

matters and in such form as the State Board of Education

shall require ; and said reports, or an abstract therefrom, shall

be published by the president of the board in his annual

report.

17B. The Superintendent of Public Education shall receive

Superinten-

a salary from said appropriations for public schools, the amount

dent of Pub-
lic Education.

of which salary shall be fixed by the State Board of Education,