1728 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77

1904, art. 77, sec. 40. 1888, art. 77, sec. 36. 1872, ch. 377.

41. Every school-house shall be built and furnished according to
plans and drawings issued from the office of the county school commis-
sioners.

Chapter 7. Schools.

Ibid. sec. 41. 1888, art. 77, sec. 37. 1872, ch. 377.

42. The schools under the charge of the board of county school com-
missioners for each county shall respectively be designated school num-
ber one, two, three, and so forth, of their respective election districts.

Ibid. sec. 42. 1888, art. 77, sec. 38. 1872, ch. 377.

43. In every school-house district in each county, established as
hereinafter provided, there shall be kept for ten months in each year,
if possible, one or more schools, according to population, which shall be
free to all white youths over six and under twenty-one years of age.

Ibid. sec. 43. 1888, art. 77, sec. 39. 1872. ch. 377. 1888, ch. 382.
1898. ch. 221. 1904, ch. 584. 1910, ch. 757 (p. 218).

44. In every district school there shall be taught orthography, read-
ing, writing, subjects for language training, English grammar, geog-
raphy, arithmetic, history of the United States, good behavior, the con-
stitution of the United States, constitution and history of Maryland,
vocal music, drawing, physiology, laws of health and domestic economy,
civil government, and the elements of agricultural science and the
international language known as Esperanto may, in the discretion of the
state board of education, be added to the branches required to be taught
in the state normal schools and in the high schools of the various coun-
ties of the State.

Ibid. sec. 44. 1888, art. 77, sec. 40. 1886. ch. 495. 1904, ch. 584.

45. The nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, with special
instruction as to their effects upon the human system, in connection
with the several divisions of the subject of physiology and hygiene
shall be included in the branches of study taught in the common schools,
and shall be taught to and studied by all pupils whose capacity will
admit of it, in all departments of the public schools of the State, and
in all educational institutions supported wholly or in part by money
from the State; and said study shall be taught and studied by pupils-
in said schools as thoroughly and in the same manner as other like
branches are there taught and studied, with text-books in hands of
pupils, where other like branches are thus studied.

Ibid. sec. 45. 1888. art. 77, sec. 41. 1886, ch. 495.

46. It shall be the duty of boards of county school commissioners,
and of the board of commissioners of public schools of Baltimore city,
county examiners, superintendents of public schools of Baltimore city,