1704 ARTICLE: 6.

SCHOOLS.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 6, sec, 217. 1886, ch. 293.

545. The Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,
shall, at every regular session of the General Assembly, appoint three
persons in each of the following counties, namely: Caroline, Prince
George's, Charles and Montgomery Counties, who shall constitute a Board
of School Commissioners for their respective counties.

Secs. 545 and 546 have been modified or superseded by general law. See 1929
Supplement to Annotated Code, Art. 77, sec. 6.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 6, sec. 218. 1886, ch. 293.

546. The term of office of the Boards of County School Commissioners
created by the preceding section shall be for two years from the first day
of May in every second year, beginning with the year eighteen hundred
and eighty-six, and until their successors in office shall have been ap-
pointed and shall qualify.

1912, ch. 705, sec. 6.

547. Each of said three Boards of County School Commissioners shall
contribute annually such sum or sums of money as shall be necessary or
proper for the maintenance of said high school,+ the amount to be paid
by such board to be in proportion to the number of pupils attending from
each of said counties, respectively, and enrolled in said high school on the
loth day of January, in each year, as based on the total enrollment of said
school on the said fifteenth day of January in each year, and the principal
or head master of said school shall enter in the roll book of the county in
which each pupil enrolled resides.

1912, ch. 705, sec. 7.

548. The said high school shall be under the joint control and man-
agement of said three boards of school commissioners, and all expenditures
as to the maintenance of said school, after the same is constructed and
equipped, shall be made through and by the board of school commission-
ers of that county in which said high school is located, and each of the
other two boards shall contribute and pay the said board its proportionate
share for the maintenance of said school, as provided in section 54-7 of
this Article, and the board having charge of the said expenditures shall
render annually to the other two boards an itemized and detailed state-
ment of all receipts and expenditures relating to the maintenance of said
high school, and the appropriation from the State of Maryland or any
other source for the maintenance of said school shall also be paid to the
board of school commissioners of the county in which said high school is
located, and shall be disbursed and accounted for as aforesaid.

*Ch. 430, 1906, provided for organization of high school in town of Greensboro.

+The other sections provided for the erection of a high school in the town of
Queen Anne under joint supervision and at. joint expense of Caroline, Talbot and
Queen Anne's Counties.