70 PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. [ART.

be made in writing and within two months from the date of the
first publication of such notice; when the applications shall
have been made and considered, the board of school commis-
sioners may then change the boundaries of the school districts,
and revise the description, or they may, without application,
make such change as may be deemed important, or they may
ratify and confirm the report of the committee without altera-
tion; the description of the boundaries of the school districts
shall be recorded in the Journal of the school commissioners, or
in a book kept for that purpose in their office; in those counties
where no newspaper is published, the notice of application for
change of boundaries shall be published in the newspapers of
the adjoining county; whenever it may be necessary, the board
of school commissioners shall employ a surveyor to aid the com-
mittee in dividing the county; and they shall allow each mem-
ber of the committee and the surveyor such compensation for
his services as may be just and proper; they shall report the
entire cost of dividing the county and the publication of the
notices aforesaid to the county commissioners, who shall levy
the amount as other county expenses are levied, and shall pay
the same to the treasurer of the board of school commissioners,
by whom it shall be paid to the parties to whom it may be clue;
if a county has already been divided into school districts, which
it may be necessary to revise, the board of school commissioners
shall have full power to make such revisions or alterations as
may be necessary to accommodate the population and increase
the efficiency of the schools; a full description of such changes
and alterations shall also be made and recorded as aforesaid; the
school districts shall be numbered in such manner as the State
Superintendent may direct; the mode of dividing the city of
Baltimore into school districts, and of locating school houses,
shall be fixed by the Mayor and City Council, and not be sub-
ject to the requirements of this section.

27. It shall be the duty of the school commissioners, each for
his own school district subject to the provisions of the by-laws
issued by the State Board of Education, to employ teachers
from among those persons who hold the proper certificate to
attend to the distribution of books and stationery, requiring