956 ARTICLE 77.

the notification of such refusal the County Superintendent shall name
another teacher for each teacher so refused by the district board; provided,
however that the County Superintendent shall not be required to name
more thai! three teachers for any one place in said school.

No teacher shall have the power to dismiss pupils or close the school
during school hours unless in case of emergency without the consent of the
District Board of Trustees or the County Superintendent or the County
Board of Education.

A majority of the Board of School Trustees shall have the power to
appoint a janitor for schools under their jurisdiction, but this provision
shall not apply to Montgomery County. One or more of the District
Board of School Trustees may visit the schools under their jurisdiction at
least one each month and consult with the teachers and principal of the
school as to the progress of pupils, condition and cleanliness of the school,
and the ground's belonging to same, and give such aid as in their power
for the advancement of said school.

An. Code, 1924 sec. 68 1918. ch. 203, sec. 1. 1924, ch. 226. 1931, ch. 79.
1933, ch. 186. 1935, ch. 552.

68. The County School Superintendents of Maryland be, and they are
hereby authorized! to enlarge the usefulness and increase the efficiency of
public school property by allowing the use of public school houses for
farmers' meetings, meetings of the Farmers' Educational and Co-operative
Union of America, Grange meetings, Maryland Agriculture Society-Mary-
land Farm Bureau Federation, public speakings, lectures, entertainments,
church festivals, Red Cross meetings, Y. M. C. A. meetings, meetings and
entertainments of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, United
Spanish-American War Veterans and other regularly incorporated and
recognized veterans' associations, and for any other purposes which are
for the civic welfare. Provided, however, that all such meetings held in the
public school buildings shall at all times be open to the public.

Chapter 7. Schools.

An. Code, 1924. sec. 81. 1912. sec. 52. 1904, sec. 51. 1888, sec. 43. 1872, ch. 377.
1890. ch. 324. 1904. ch. 584. 1916, ch. 506. sec. 52. 1922, ch. 239.
1924. ch. 448. 1927. ch. 645. 1929, ch. 464.

81. The school year shall be divided into four terms, which shall be
designated fall term, winter term, spring term, and summer term; and the
time of beginning and closing each term shall be regulated by the county
board of education; provided, that the financial reports of the schools of
the State shall be made up and rendered to the thirty-first day of July,
inclusive of each and every year; and provided, further, that there shall
be no change in or encroachment upon the holidays and vacation set forth
and established in the following paragraph:

The months of July and August shall be vacation throughout the whole
State, and the following days shall be holidays, viz: Thanksgiving Day,
and the day after; from Christmas Eve to the first day of January, in-