ART. 77] CITY OF BALTIMORE. 1747

which shall include a school or schools for manual or industrial train-
ing, under such ordinances, rules and regulations as they may deem fit
and proper to enact and prescribe; they may delegate supervisory powers
and control to a board of school commissioners; may prescribe rules for
building school houses, and locating, establishing and closing schools,
and may in general do every act that may be necessary or proper in the
premises.

The act of 1892, ch. 341, specifically prescribes the method by which county
school commissioners ought to be appointed, but nowhere in this article is
the method for the appointment of school commissioners in Batlimore city
designated. This section gives to the city the whole of the state's power
over public schools in the city (subject, of course, to the state's right of
repeal), and does not take from the city any power it previously had con-
cerning the method of appointing school commissioners. Hooper v. New, 85
Md. 581; Baltimore v. Weatherby, 52 Md. 451.

This section has no application to such schools as St. Mary's Industrial
School for Boys, the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic
Arts, etc., though the governor and mayor appoint directors or trustees.
St Mary's Industrial School v. Brown, 45 Md. 333.

For a case apparently now inapplicable to this section by reason of changes
in the law, see School Commissioners v. State Board, 26 Md. 505.

For cases involving the act of 1865, ch. 160, see School Commissioners v.
State Board, 26 Md. 506; Shriver v. Bering, 97 Md. 22; Hooper v. New, 85
Md. 576.

For cases involving the act of 1825, ch. 162, see School Commissioners v.
State Board, 26 Md. 513; Hammond v. Haines, 25 Md. 559; Burgess v. Pue,
2 Gill 17; Burgess v. Pue, 2 Gill, 286.

1904, art. 77, sec. 117. 1888. art 77, sec. 89. 1872, ch. 377.

122. The board of commissioners of public schools of Baltimore
city, or by whatever name the body may be known that has supervisory
power and control over the public schools of Baltimore city, shall have
power to examine, appoint and remove teachers, prescribe the qualifica-
tions, fix the salaries subject to the approval of the mayor and city coun-
cil, and select text books for schools of said city; provided, such text
books shall contain nothing of a sectarian or partisan character. The
board of commissioners of public schools of said city shall annually make
a report to the state board of education of the condition of the schools
under their charge, to include a statement of expenditures, the number
of children taught, and such other statistical information as may be
necessary to exhibit the operation of the schools.
See notes to sec. 121.

Ibid. sec. 118. 1888, art. 77, sec. 90. 1872, ch. 377.

123. The mayor and city council of Baltimore shall have power and
authority to make all ordinances for the protection of the school houses
and property, and to punish any person who may disturb the sessions of
said public schools.

Ibid. sec. 119. 1888, art. 77, sec. 91. 1872, ch. 377.

124. The said mayor and city council are hereby authorized and
empowered to levy and collect upon the assessable property in said city,
as other taxes are levied and collected, such amount of taxes as may be