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PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. [ART. — .

Ibid. s. 2.
State superin-
tendent.

2. In a state superintendent of public instruction,
appointed by the governor, subject to the confirma-
tion of the senate.

Ibid. B 3
Board of school
commissioners.

3. In boards of school commissioners for the city
of Baltimore and for each county.

OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Ibid, c 11, s 1
Meetings of
state board.

4. The state board of education, for the purpose of
promoting the interests of public instruction, shall
hold regular meetings on the first Wednesday in
March, June, September and December of each year,
and special meetings as often as the governor may
direct.

Ibid s 2.
Powers and
duties of said
board

5. The board shall supervise all colleges and
schools that receive any state donation, or are in-
corporated by act of the general assembly, and re-
quire annual reports which shall be referred to the
state superintendent; they shall select a uniform
series of text books for use in every public school
and high school established or aided under this act ;
they shall issue a uniform code of by-laws for the
government of all the county school boards, and the
schools and high schools under their charge ; they
shall appoint the professors of the state normal
school, and determine their salaries ; they shall have
power to remove any county school commissioner
whenever it shall have been proven to their satis-
faction, that he has been guilty of any wilful viola-
tion or neglect of duty under this act, or of wilfully
disobeying any decision, order, or regulation of the
state superintendent.

Ibid s 3.
Grants, devises,
&c , to board.

6. The board of education may take and hold to
it and its successors, in trust for the state, for any
city or county, for any school district, or for any
particular school within the state, any grantor devise
of lands, and any donations or bequests of money or
other personal property made to it for educational
purposes ; and shall pay over to the state treasurer