950 ARTICLE 4.

and ventilation of school buildings, to be known as Supervisor of School

Buildings, who shall, in addition to the supervision of school buildings
in respect to their heating, plumbing and ventilating, perform such other

duties as the Board may direct.

Baltimore City y. Lyman, 92 Md. 611.

SUPERINTENDENT AND ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENTS
OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

1898, ch. 123.

101. The duties of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and As-
sistant Superintendents of Public Instruction shall include the examina-
tion of teachers and their nomination to the Board of School Commis-
sioners for appointment or promotion, and the supervision of schools, and
the study and suggestion of methods by which the public school system of
the City of Baltimore may be maintained and improved. They shall hold
Tegular meetings as a Board of Superintendents of Public Instruction

-and keep a record of the same, which shall be submitted to the Board of
School Commissioners. For the work of supervision and examination,
standing committees shall be designated by the Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction annually. Of every such committee, the Superintendent
of Public Instruction or the First Assistant Superintendent of Public
Instruction, or both, shall be members ex officio, and the number of addi-
tional members shall be determined from time to time, as circumstances
may require. Every school shall be visited at frequent intervals by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction or one of the Assistant Superin-
tendents of Public Instruction, and written reports on its condition shall
fee filed in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with
such recommendation as circumstances may call for. It shall be the
duty of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and his Assistants, to
devote their services exclusively to the public schools under such regula-
tions as the Board of School Commissioners may prescribe. It shall be

the duty of the said Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the aid
of the Supervisor of School Buildings, to ascertain the sanitary condition

of every school, and to report to the proper authorities what repairs or
improvements are necessary. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent
of Public Instruction aud his Assistants, as examiners, to ascertain, by

appropriate committees, appointed as hereinbefore provided, the train-
ing, knowledge, aptness for teaching, and character of every future can-
didate for the place of a teacher, and to report to the Board of School
Commissioners graded lists of those whom they deem qualified for ap-
pointment, from which graded lists all nominations of teachers shall be
made by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and his Assistants to
the Board of School Commissioners. All such nominations of teachers
shall be made in the order in which the names of the nominees appear
upon such graded lists. In the preparation of these graded lists, the
Superintendent of Public Instruction and his Assistants shall ascertain