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confirm the appointment of any teacher whose name does not appear upon
the graded list, hereinafter provided for. All officers, secretaries, clerks
and employees shall be appointed by said Board, and may be removed by
it at pleasure, and any teacher may be removed by said Board on the rec-
ommendation of the Superintendent of Public Instruction after charges
preferred and trial had. The salary of all officers, teachers, secretaries,
clerks and employees shall be fixed by said Board, not to exceed in the
aggregate the amount appropriated by ordinance. AVhenever the con-
struction of a new schoolhouse or the enlargement and repairs of an old
schoolhouse is authorized, the instructions of the Board of School Com-
missioners shall be regarded by the Buildings Engineer in the prepara-
tion of his plans, and no plans shall be finally adopted without the con-
currence of said Board. All text-books, stationery and furniture required
for the public schools shall be purchased by the said Board, subject to
the provisions of sections 14 and 15 of this Charter.

In reference to powers of Board of School Commissioners, see: School Commrs,
of Balto, v. State Board of Education, 26 Md. 512. Weddle v. Board of School
Commrs., 94 Md. 334.

Power, School Commissioners—appointment teachers.

Semmes at al. v. Rowland, 114 Md. 260.

Members of the School Board are not liable for their official acts, unless they "do
wrong wilfully, fraudulently and corruptly".

Roschen v. School Commissioners, 116 Md. 42, 49.

Trial must be upon sufficient charges—it seems teacher on trial entitled to be
represented by counsel.

Riggs v. Green, 118 Md. 219.

Power of School Board as to salaries. Thomas v. Field, 143 Md. 128. Graham
T. Joyce, 151 Md. 298.

1898, ch. 123.

100. The said Board shall appoint the principal, professors, tutors and
instructors of the City College, the principals, tutors and instructors of
the Polytechnic Institutes, and of the High Schools. It shall also appoint
a Superintendent of Public Instruction and one or more Asssistant Super-
intendents of Public Instruction, one of whom shall be the First As-
sistant, and shall act as Superintendent of Public Instruction if that
officer is disabled. The said Superintendents shall al] be persons of educa-
tion and experience in the management of schools, and they shall not be
less than twenty-five years of age, at the time of their appointment, and
shall discharge the duties herein prescribed and such other duties as the
said Board may direct. In order to secure the continuance of local interest
in and oversight of the public schools, there shall be appointed annually
by said Board such number of unpaid School Visitors as may be found
requisite. One or more of these visitors shall be assigned to every school,
and every visitor so assigned shall be a resident or engaged in business
within half mile of the school to which he or she is assigned, so that the
parents and inhabitants of every neighborhood may have easy access to
an official of the public schools. The said visitors shall perform the duties
hereinafter prescribed, and such other duties as the said Board may direct.
The said Board may also appoint a supervisor of the heating, plumbing