ART. 5. ] CALVERT COUNTY.. 59

porate and politic, with powers to sue and be sued, and who
shall hold their office for four years from the said second Tues-
day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty, and until their suc-
cessors are appointed.

11. The said board of commissioners shall be commissioners
of the school fund of said county, and apportion among the
several public schools of the county, the amount of school fund
the county shall be entitled annually to receive from the State,
and the amount annually levied by the county commissioners
in proportion to the number of indigent children attending
each, but no school shall receive less than two hundred nor
more than three hundred dollars of such fund; and the said
board shall prescribe rules and regulations for the management
and government of said schools, setting forth the course of
studies to be observed, the character and kind of books to be
used, and such other rules as they may think proper; and the
register of said board shall furnish each teacher a copy of said
rules and regulations, and the said board shall withhold pay-
ment from any teacher who wilfully refuses or neglects to ob-
serve the same.

12. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners annually
to levy for the use of the public schools the sum of seven hun-
dred and fifty dollars in payment of the interest on money bor-
rowed by the county from the school fund, as per act of Decem-
ber session, eighteen hundred and forty-five, chapter fifty-seven,
and the county commissioners shall also annually levy for the
use of the schools the further sum of three hundred dollars in
payment of arrearages of interest due from the county to the
school fund, by reason of the non-payment of such interest from
eighteen hundred and forty-five to eighteen hundred and fifty-
four, until such arrearages shall be liquidated; which levies
shall not be charged upon tax bills as school tax, but shall be
included in the county tax.

13. The school commissioners shall receive the same compen-
sation as that now allowed by law to the county commissioners,
to be levied in the same manner, but no school commissioner
shall be allowed for more than ten days service in one year.