810 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77

having obtained the assent of the State Board of Education of Mary-
land and the approval by said Board of the conditions of scholarship,
study and residence upon which said degrees are issued.*

Chapter 4. County School Commissioners.

1904, art. 77, sec. 24. 1888, art. 77, sec. 21. 1872, ch. 377. 1900, ch. 520.
1904, ch. 584. 1914, ch. 480.

25. The Board of County School Commissioners shall have the
general supervision and control of all the schools in their respective
Counties; .they shall build, repair and furnish school houses; they
shall purchase and distribute text-books; they shall after advising with,
the principal of the school to which the teacher is to be appointed,
appoint all assistant teachers; they shall have authority to consolidate
schools when in their judgment consolidation is practicable or desirable,
provided that in the case of a school, the yearly average of which is
twelve pupils or more, the Board of County School Commissioners
shall obtain the consent of sixty per cent, of the patrons of the school,
the school house of which is to be closed in order that it may be con-
solidated with another school, and to arrange for and to pay charges of
transporting pupils to and from such schools and have power to close
any or all schools in any school district of the County when they deem
it best so to do, except in the case of a school, the yearly average of
which is twelve pupils or more, the Board of County School Commis-
sioners shall obtain the consent of sixty per cent, of its patrons, and
shall perform such other duties as may be necessary to secure an effi-
cient administration of the public school system, subject to the provi-
sions of this Article.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 2 of the Anno-
tated Code.

Ibid. sec. 27. 1888, art. 77, sec. 24. 1872, ch. 377. 1890, ch. 324.
1904, ch. 584. 1912, ch. 333.

28. The Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City and the
Boards of County School Commissioners of the several counties shall,
on or before the first day of September in each and every year, make
a report to the State Board of Education, in such form as may be pre-
scribed by the latter, of the schools and all matters affecting the educa-
tional interests of the respective counties and Baltimore City; they
shall also publish annually, in such form and manner as they may
deem proper, a statement of their receipts and disbursements, includ-
ing the money received and expended on account of text-books, and a.
statement of the indebtedness of the board at the close of the fiscal
year, and the items of expense of the individual schools, and forward
a copy of same to the State Board of Education.+

*In effect August 1, 1914.

+The act of 1912, chapter 333, went into effect August 1, 1912.