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of 6 and 18 inclusive, to be taken first in the year 1922, and every two
years thereafter, and he may cause the whole or any part of the school cen-
sus of the City of Baltimore, or of any county to be retaken at any time,
if, in his judgment, the whole or any part of such census has not been
properly or correctly taken.

An. Code, sec. 21C. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 21C.

37. The state superintendent of schools shall prepare or cause to be
prepared the annual report of the state board of education and shall sub-
mit the same to the board for its approval and adoption; he shall also pre-
pare or cause to be prepared, all other reports which are or may be required
of this board.

An. Code, sec. 21D. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 21D.

38. The state superintendent of schools shall perform such other
duties as are assigned to him elsewhere in this Article, or may be assigned
to him from time to time by the state board of education.

Chapter 4. County Board of Education.

An. Code, sec. 22. 1904, sec. 21. 1888, sec. 18. 1872, ch. 377. 1888, ch. 68. 1890, ch. 268.
1892, ch. 341. 1902, ch. 225. 1904, ch. 584. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 22.

39. The county board of education shall hold an annual meeting each
year on the second Tuesday in May, or as near as possible thereto in
May. At this meeting the board shall elect one of its members to serve
as president and one to serve as vice-president. Other regular meetings
shall be held at least once in each school term, and such special meetings
may be held as the duties and business of the board may require. The
members of the county boards of education shall receive no salary, but each
member shall receive the sum of one hundred dollars annually for travel-
ing and other expenses incident to attending the meetings and transacting
the business of the board within the county.

Where board of county school commissioners is legislated out of office, the term
of office of their secretary and treasurer, though employed for a period not yet
expired, ends with appointment of his successor by new board. Duer v. Dashiell,
91 Md. 665.

The legislature is careful in this section to declare that power given belongs not
to individuals, but to corporation. School Commissioners v. Goldsborough, 90 Md.
203.

Cited but not construed in Ash v. McVey, 85 Md. 126.

See sec. 6 and notes.

An. Code, sec. 23. 1904, sec. 22. 1888, sec. 19. 1872, ch. 377. 1892, ch. 538. 1900, ch. 389.
1904, ch. 584. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 23.

40. The county board of education are hereby declared to be a body
politic and corporate by the name and style of the board of education of
.............. county, and by that name shall have perpetual succession,

and shall be capable to sue and to be sued, to use and to have a common