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shall perform such other duties pertaining to his office as

may from time to time be prescribed by law.

Board or Educa-
tion

SEC. 2. There shall be a State Board of Education,

consisting of the Governor, the Lieutenant-Governor, the

Speaker of the House of Delegates, and the State Super-

intendent of Public Instruction, which Board shall perform

such duties as the General Assembly may direct.

School Commis-
sioners to be ap-

SEC 3. There shall be in each county such number of

pointed by Board
of Education

School Commissioners as the State Superintendent of

Public Instruction shall deem necessary, who shall be

appointed by the State Board of Education; shall hold

,

office for four years, and shall perform such duties arid

receive such compensation as the General Assembly or

State Superintendent may direct; the School Commis-

Baltimore city
excepted

sioners of Baltimore city shall remain as at present con-

stituted, and shall be appointed, as at present, by the

Mayor and City Council, subject to such alterations and

amendments as may be made from time to time by the

General Assembly, or the said Mayor and City Council.

Uniform system
to be provided by

SEC. 4. The General Assembly, at its first session after

the Legislature.

the adoption of this Constitution, shall provide a uniform

system of Free Public Schools, by which a school shall be

kept open and supported free of expense for tuition in each

school district, for at least six months in each year; and

in case of a failure on the part of the General Assembly so

to provide, the system reported to it by the State Super-

intendent of Public Instruction, shall become the system of

Free Public Schools of the Slate; Provided, That the

report of the State Superintendent shall be in conformity

with the provisions of this Constitution, and such system

Alterations may
be made

shall be subject to such alterations, conformable to this

Article, as the General Assembly may from time to time

enact.

Tax of ten cents
on $100

SEC 5. The General Assembly shall levy at each regular

session after the adoption of this Constitution an annual

tax of not less than ten cents on each one hundred dollars

of taxable property throughout the State, for the support

of the Free Public Schools, which tax shall be collected at