PUBLIC EDUCATION 2981

An. Code, 1924, sec. 237. 1912, sec. 175. 1904, sec. 171. 1888, sec. 108. 1872, ch. 377.

232. Real and personal estate granted, conveyed, devised or bequeathed
for the use of any particular county or school district shall be held in
trust by the board of county school commissioners for the benefit of such
county or school district, and such grants and bequests shall be exempt from
all State and county taxes.

See sec. 41 and art. 25, secs. 164 and 165; art. 81, sec. 7.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 238. 1912, sec. 176. 1904, sec. 172. 1888, sec. 109. 1872, ch. 377.

233. Moneys invested in trust for the benefit of the public schools for
any county or city shall be exempt from State, county or local tax.
As to exemptions from taxation, see art. 81, sec. 7.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 239. 1912, sec. 176A. 1918, ch. 75.

234. It shall be the duty of the Board of Education of each and every
county in the State of Maryland, and of the Board of Education for Balti-
more City, in the State of Maryland, to cause to have displayed a flag of
the United States of America upon every public school building within
their respective jurisdictions while said schools are in session, and to that
end shall make all necessary purchase of flags, staffs and appliances there-
for and establish rules and regulations for the proper custody, care and
display of the flag in said schools; and it shall be the duty of said Boards
of Education to prepare for the use of the public schools of the State a
programme providing for the salute to the flag, and such other patriotic
exercises from time to time as may be deemed by them to be expedient,
and under such regulations and instruction as may best meet the various
requirements of the different grades in such schools; all to the end that
the love of liberty and democracy, signified in the devotion of all true and
patriotic Americans to their flag and to their country, shall be instilled in
the hearts and minds of the youth of America.

University of Maryland.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 240. 1920, ch. 480.

235. The University of Maryland, incorporated by the Act of 1812,
Chapter 159, as amended and supplemented by the Act of 1882, Chapter
88, be and the same is merged and consolidated with the Maryland State
College of Agriculture, incorporated by the Act of 1916, Chapter 372, and
that the name of the consolidated corporation shall be the University of
Maryland.

The government of the University of Maryland, after said consolidation
shall become effective, as hereinafter provided, shall be vested in the Board
of Trustees provided for by Section 2 of said Act of 1916, Chapter 372,
which Board shall thereafter be known as the Regents of the University
of Maryland, and said Regents shall exercise with reference to the Uni-
versity of Maryland, as hereby constituted, and with reference to every
department of same, all the powers, rights and privileges, and be charged
with all the duties and obligations which now appertain to them, with ref-
erence to the Maryland State College of Agriculture, provided, however,
that the said Board of Regents may, until they think it expedient otherwise
to order, permit any department, faculty or school of the University of
Maryland, existing prior to the going into effect of this consolidation, to