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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Proviso.

for; provided, that when repairs are to be paid out

of a county school tax, the amount to be expended

for said repairs shall be determined by the Board of

County School Commissioners before the repairs are

made. The board shall employ a teacher or teachers,

subject to confirmation by the Board of County

School Commissioners, from among those persona

who hold the certificate required by this act ; they

shall exercise a general supervision over their re-

spective schools and visit them frequently, and shall

cause instruction to be given for ten months in the

year if possible.

CHAPTER FIVE, SECTION FIVE. In case of neglect of

duty or refusal to act on the part of the members of the

Neglect of duty
or refuse to act

Board of Trustees, their places shall be declared vacant
by the Board of County School Commissioners, who

shall fill the same by new appointment; but if it be

found impossible to secure competent persons who

will act in this capacity, then the duties of the Board

of District School Trustees for the particular district

shall devolve upon the Board of County School Com-

missioners.

CHAPTER SIX, SECTION TWO. The Board of County

School Commissioners may receive donations of such

sites or locations for school bouses, or of houses

already built adapted to school purposes, or suit-

ably located, or may purchase the same; but

May receive
donations

iu no case shall any site be built upon, or any

house be occupied until a good and sufficient title

shall have been obtained for the same, in the cor-

porate name of the Board of County School Com-

missioners; in cases where, however, the property

owned by the Board of County School Commis-

sioners in any school district, proves unsuited for

school purposes, the board is authorized to sell or

lease the same, and to appropriate the amount

obtained by such sale or lease, to the purchase or

lease of a proper school-house at a suitable location

for the said district.

Enter into

CHAPTER EIGHT, SECTION THREE. Teachers shall

tbelr reports

enter into their quarterly reports an accurate account

of the attendance of pupils, of text books used, and

branches taught, and such other statistics as may be
required, and make due returns thereof to the Board