ART. ] PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 73

SCHOOL HOUSES.

87. The district commissioner shall have the care and control
of all houses and lands connected therewith within the limits of
his district; also, of the furniture, apparatus, and other prop-
erty belonging to the district. He shall attend to all necessary
repairs, and charge the cost among the incidental expenses of
the school, to be paid as such incidental expenses are provided
for.

88. Every school house shall be built and furnished according
to plans and drawings issued from the office of the State Super-
intendent, or according to plans from county boards, submitted
to and approved by him; that proper regard may be had to
light and ventilation, and other matters that conduce to comfort,
health and good order of the pupils.

39. Every school house site must be provided with suitable
out-buildings for convenience and decency; also, for the protec-
tion of fuel and other articles needed for the good order of the
school, but not proper to be placed in the school room.

40. If any person shall willfully injure any school house, or
the buildings and fences connected therewith, or disfigure the
same with paint or otherwise, or make thereon any obscene
words, figures or devices, or paste thereon any paper or other
material bearing such words, figures or devices, he shall on con-
viction thereof in the Circuit Court of the county where the
offence was committed, or in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, if
the offence be committed in the city of Baltimore, be punished
by fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the
county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both, in the discretion
of the court. The fine shall be paid one-half to the informer
and one-half to the school house fund for the school district.

41. Whenever, in the opinion of the voters of any school
district, as expressed at the annual school meeting, the location
of a school house ought to be changed, it shall be the duty of
the board of school commissioners to inquire into the facts of