EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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may keep the school open in part at the expense of the district,

and shall receive their proportion of the school fund for said

school, rating a full school at twenty scholars.

47. The school year shall be divided into four terms, which

shall be designated Fall term, Winter term, Spring term and

school year.

Summer term ; and the time of beginning and closing each

term shall be regulated by the Board of County School Com-

missioners; provided, that the financial reports of the schools

of the State shall be made up and rendered to the thirty-first

day of July, inclusive, of each and every year; and provided

further, that there be no change in or encroachment upon the

holidays and vacations set forth and established in the follow-

ing paragraph :

The months of July and August shall be vacation through-

out the whole State, and the following days shall be holidays,

Vacation and

viz : Thanksgiving Day, from Christmas Eve to the first

holidays.

day of January inclusive, and from the Friday before Easter

to the Monday after Easter inclusive ; on Washington's Birth-

day the schools shall devote a portion of the clay to exer-

cises bearing on the life and services of "The Father of Our

Country;" Maryland Day shall be observed at such a time

and in such manner as the State Board of Education may

direct.

In case it may be necessary to open school for a fraction

of a term, it shall close at the end of the term, and all accounts

Fraction of

shall be settled at the meeting of the Board of County School

term.

Commissioners, held at the end of the term.

48. No person shall be employed as a teacher under this

Article unless such person shall hold a certificate of qualifica-

Certificate of

tion (a) issued by the superintendent of the county in which

qualification.

he or she proposes to teach; (b) a certificate from a principal

of a State Normal School of Maryland, or of the principal

of the Normal Department of Washington College; (c) a

diploma of a State Normal School of Maryland, or of the prin-

cipal of the Normal Department of Washington College; (d)

a Normal School diploma of another State endorsed by the State

Superintendent of Public Education, or a diploma from the

normal department of a school or college of this State, recog-

nized as such by the State Board of Education; or (e) a

certificate from the State Board of Education, as herein pro-

vided.