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ART. LXXVII] PUBLIC EDUCATION. 563
Chapter 1. Control and Supervision.
1904, art. 77, sec. 2. 1888, art. 77. sec. 2. 1872, ch. 377. 1016, ch. 506, sec. 2.
2. Educational matters affecting the State and the general care and
supervision of public education shall be entrusted to a State Depart-
ment of Education, at the head of which shall be a State Board of
Education.
1904, art. 77, sec. 3. 1888, art. 77. sec. 3. 1872, ch. 377. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 3.
3. Educational matters affecting a County shall be under the con-
trol of a County Board of Education.
See notes to this section in volume 2 of the Annotated Code.
1904, art. 77, sec. 4. 1888, art. 77, sec. 1. 1872, ch. 377. 1916. ch. 506. sec. 4.
4. Educational matters affecting a school district shall be under the
care of a' District Board of Schoool Trustees.
Chapter 2. Formation of Boards.
1904, art. 77. sec. 5. 1888, art. 77, sec. 5. 1870, ch. 311. 1872. ch. 377, sub-ch. 2.
sec. 1. 1874, ch. 463. 1890, ch. 157. 1904, ch. 584. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 5.
5. The State Board of Education shall be composed of seven mem-
bers, who shall be appointed from the citizens of the State by the Gov-
ernor for a term of seven years, from the first Monday in May next
succeeding their appointment, and they shall hold office until their suc-
cessors qualify. Provided that the terms of office of persons 'vho are
members of the Board, on April 18, 1916, shall not be affected by its
provisions; and provided further, in order that the length of term of
the first seven regular appointments under this section shall be so desig-
nated by the Governor that there shall thereafter be one regular vacancy
and one regular appointment each year, the Governor shall appoint in
the first instance only three members; one of whom he shall designate
to hold office for a term of seven years, one for a term of six years, and
one for a term of five years, from the first Monday in May, 1918:
before the first Monday in May, 1920, he shall appoint two members
for a term of six and seven years, respectively, from the first Monday
in May, 1920; and before the first Monday in May, 1922, he shall
appoint two members to serve six and seven years, respectively, from
the first Monday in May, 1922. Thereafter the term of each member
appointed to the Board shall be seven years. The members of the
Board shall be appointed solely because of their character and fitness,
but no person shall be appointed to the Board who is in any way sub-
ject to its authority, and the Governor and the State Superintendent
of Schools shall not be members of this board after the first Monday of
May, 1918. The Governor may remove any member of the Board
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