ART. — .] PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

furniture, apparatus, and other property 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.

205

88. Every school house shall be built and fur-
nished according to plans and drawings issued from
the office of the state superintendent, 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 com-
fort, health and good order of the pupils.

Ibid, s 2.
How school
houses built
and furnished

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

Ibid s 3.
Outbuildings.

40. If any person shall wilfully injure any school
house, or the buildings and fences connected there-
with, or disfigure the same with paint or otherwise,
or make thereon any obscene words, figures or de-
vices, or paste thereon any paper or other material
bearing such words, figures or devices, he shall on
conviction 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, bo 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.

Ibid s 4
Penalty fol in-
juring and dis-
figuring school
houses, &c.

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 the case,
and if they deem it expedient, they may sell and
convey the said school house and lands and appro-

14

Ibid. s. B
Change of loca-
tion of school
houses.