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in such manner as will best promote the prosperity and utility of such
library; provided, such application be according to the terms of the gifts,
donations, devises, bequests and legacies.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 186. 1912, sec. 118. 1904, sec. 105. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 12. 1902, ch. 367,
sec. 12. 1910, ch. 505, sec. 113 (p. 225).

180. Every public library established under this law shall receive from
the State a copy of the laws, journals and all other books published by the
authority of the State, except the Maryland law reports, and in return
therefor shall transmit a copy of its annual report to the state library.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 187. 1912, sec. 119. 1904, sec. 106. 1898, ch. 515, sec. 13. 1902, ch. 367,
sec. 13. 1910, ch. 505, sec'. 114 (p. 226).

181. All real estate acquired for the use and benefit of any library and
reading room, established as aforesaid, and all property that shall be a
part of any such library and reading room shall be exempt from all State,
county and municipal taxation.
As to exemptions from taxation, see art. 81, sec. 7.

Chapter 16. The City of Baltimore.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 188. 1912, sec. 121. 1904, sec. 116. 1888, sec. 88. 1872, ch. 377.

1884, ch. 2.

182. The mayor and city council of Baltimore shall have full power
and authority to establish in said city a system of free public schools,
which shall include a school or schools for manual or industrial training,
under such ordinances, rules and regulations as they may deem fit and
proper to enact and prescribe; they may delegate supervisory powers and
control to a board of school commissioners; may prescribe rules for building
school houses, and locating, establishing and closing schools, and may in
general do every act that may be necessary or proper in the premises.

This section and sec. 183 referred to in construing sec. 128 of Baltimore City Charter.
(1938 Ed.) Teachers' salaries. Administrative practice. Charter prevails. Home Rule
Amendment—see notes to art. 11A, sec. 1. Graham v. Joyce, 151 Md. 307.

The act of 1892, ch. 341, specifically prescribes method by which county school com-
missioners ought to be appointed, but nowhere in this article is the method for appoint-
ment of school commissioners in Baltimore City designated. This section gives to
city the whole of state's power over public schools in the city (subject, of course, to
state's right of repeal), and does not take from the city any power it previously had
concerning method of appointing school commissioners. Hooper v. New, 85 Md. 581;
Baltimore v. Weatherby, 52 Md. 451.

This section has no application to such schools as St. Mary's Industrial School for
Boys, Maryland Institute for Promotion of Mechanic Arts, etc., though Governor and
mayor appoint directors or trustees. St. Mary's Industrial School v. Brown, 45 Md. 333.

For a case apparently now inapplicable to this section by reason of changes in the
law, see School Commissioners v. State Board, 26 Md. 505.

For cases involving act of 1865, ch. 160, see School Commissioners v. State Board,
26 Md. 506; Shriver v. Hering, 97 Md. 22; Hooper v. New, 85 Md. 576.

For cases involving act of 1825, ch. 162, see School Commissioners v. State Board,
26 Md. 513; Hammond v. Haines, 25 Md. 559; Burgess v. Pue, 2 Gill, 17; Burgess
v. Pue, 2 Gill, 286.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 189. 1912, sec. 122. 1904, sec. 117. 1888, sec. 89. 1872, ch. 377.

183. The board of commissioners of public schools of Baltimore City,
or by whatever name the body may be known that has supervisory power
and control over the public schools of Baltimore City, shall have power to
examine, appoint and remove teachers, prescribe the qualifications, fix the
salaries subject to the approval of the mayor and city council, and select