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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

63. The certificate issued by each County Superintendent

Certificate to

shall be numbered and registered in a book kept by the Board

be registered.

of County School Commissioners, and be delivered to their

successors in office, and shall be denominated first or second

grade, as the case may be, and the State Board of Education

shall keep a book in the same manner as the County Superinten-

dent ; certificates of the first grade shall embrace orthography,

reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, United States His-

tory, English grammar, bookkeeping, algebra, natural phil-

osophy, physiology, plane geometry (four books), general

history, National and State Constitutions, theory and practice

of teaching, and the laws and the by-laws of the public school

system of Maryland ; and those of the second shall embrace

orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, United

States History, English grammar, History of Maryland, Con-

stitutions of United States and of Maryland, physiology, alge-

bra (to quadratics) , theory and practice of teaching, the laws

and by-laws of the public school system of Maryland; such a

certificate held by a person who obtains a school within six

months from the time the certificate was issued shall not con-

tinue in force longer than six months after acceptance of the

position of teacher, unless the persons holding the same shall

satisfy the County Superintendent of his or her fitness for

governing a school, and his or her ability to impart instruction

in the various branches taught in the public schools ; but when

the County Superintendent shall satisfy himself upon these

points, he shall be empowered to issue a certificate, which

shall continue in force for five years, unless revoked for cause;

Holding a cer-

a person holding such certificate, who fails to obtain a school

tificate.

within six months after issuance of same, shall not be required

to pass another examination in the same county for fifteen

months from date of granting the certificate.

66. It shall be the duty of the County Superintendent, or his

assistant, at least three times in each year, to visit the schools

Superinten-
dent to visit

in his county, if it contains sixty teachers or less, and twice

schools.

a year in counties having more than sixty and less than one

hundred and seventy-five teachers, and once a year in counties

where there are more than one hundred and seventy-five ;

he shall observe the methods of the teachers and give him or

her such practical suggestions as circumstances may prompt ; he

shall, whenever possible, attend public examinations and report

quarterly in detail the result of his observances through the

Board of County School Commissioners. In counties where

the number of teachers shall exceed one hundred and seventy-