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56. Teachers shall be appointed by the district commissioner,
and may be removed at any time said commissioner may think
proper.

57. Teachers shall keep, prepare and enter into registers pre-
pared for that purpose, an accurate account of the attendance of
pupils, text books used, and branches taught, and such other
statistics as may be required, and make due return thereof to
the district commissioner at the end of each term; and no
teacher shall be entitled to receive payment for services until
the register, properly filled up and completed, be so returned.

58. It shall be the duty of all teachers, in schools of every
grade, to impress upon the minds of youth committed to their
instruction, the principles of piety and justice, loyalty and sacred
regard for truth, love of their country, humanity and benevo-
lence, sobriety, industry and chastity, and those virtues which
are the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded;
and it shall be the duties of such instructors to lead their pupils
into a clear understanding of the tendency of these virtues, to
preserve the blessings of liberty, promote temporal happiness
and advance the greatness of the American nation.

59. Salaries of teachers in the city of Baltimore and each
county shall be fixed by the board of school commissioners of
the city and the several counties.

PUPILS.

60. All white youth between the ages of six and nineteen
years, are entitled to free instruction in any of the public
schools of the State, the studies of which they may be able to
pursue; provided, that whenever there are graded schools the
district commissioner shall determine to which school each pupil
shall be admitted.

61. Pupils guilty of disorderly or immoral conduct, who after
admonition refuse to reform, shall be suspended or expelled
from the school by -the teacher, and his case referred to the
commissioner.