PUBLIC EDUCATION 2945

stationery, and school supplies shall be furnished free of cost for use in
the public schools of the State, provided that no regular text books or
series of text books shall be changed more often than once in three years.
It shall be the duty of the board of school commissioners of Baltimore
City and of the county boards of education of the several counties to
furnish text books in ample and sufficient quantities to the several grades
in the public schools; thereafter supplementary readers, materials of in-
struction, stationery and school supplies shall be furnished in adequate
quantities to the several grades in the public schools, provided that parents
or pupils may purchase their text-books, stationery and school supplies,
if they desire to do so. The said respective boards shall adopt means for
the purchase of text-books, supplementary readers, materials of instruc-
tion, stationery and school supplies by competitive bidding, and at the
lowest possible price consistent with quality, and each of said boards shall
furnish annually to the state superintendents of schools the title, the name
of the publisher, and the net price of each text book and supplementary
reader purchased under the provisions of this Article.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 131. 1912, sec. 69. 1904, sec. 65. 1888, sec. 60. 1872, ch. 377.
1896, ch. 135. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 69.

128. The said several boards shall authorize the delivery, subject to
the provisions of this Article, of text-books, supplementary readers, ma-
terials of instruction, stationery and school supplies, and shall provide for
the issuing, safekeeping and care of the same under such rules and regu-
lations as they may severally adopt.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 132. 1912, sec. 70. 1904, sec. 66. 1888, sec. 61. 1872, ch. 377.
1896, ch. 135. 1904, ch. 584. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 70.

129. The said several boards shall keep a separate account of all money
received from the State for the purchase of text books, supplementary
readers, materials of instruction, stationery and school supplies and of
all money expended for such purposes. They shall report the same an-
nually to the state superintendent of schools and in their annual report
addressed to the people required by law. No money received from the
State for the purchase of text books, supplementary readers, materials of
instruction, stationery and school supplies shall ever be used for any other
purpose or spent in any other way than provided for in the two preceding
sections.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 133. 1912, sec. 71. 1904, sec. 67. 1896, ch. 135, secs. 2, 3. 1902,
ch. 330, sec. 61A. 1908, ch. 635, sec. 67. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 71.

130. The entire sum appropriated by the General Assembly for the
purchase of text books, supplementary readers, material of instruction,
stationery and school supplies, shall be annually apportioned on or before
the last day of September by the Comptroller to the board of public school
commissioners of the City of Baltimore and to the county boards of edu-
cation of each of the several counties according to and on the basis of the
average enrollment in the public schools of the City of Baltimore, and of
each of the several counties during the preceding school year as certified
to by the state superintendent of schools, and the Comptroller shall on or
before the first day of October draw his warrant on the Treasurer of the
State of Maryland for the respective amounts due to the board of public
school commissioners of Baltimore City and the treasurer of the county