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Supplement to the Maryland Code, Containing the Acts of the General Assembly, Passed at the Sessions of 1861, 1861-62, 1864, 1865, 1866, and 1867
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PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. [ART. — .

 

priate the avails to the erection of another school
house upon such site as they may select.

Ibid s. 6.
Uses of school
houses.

42. No school house shall be used for any other
than public school purposes and school district meet-
ings, without the consent first obtained of the district

School houses
in Baltimore
city.

commissioner. The location of school houses in the
city of Baltimore, and all matters connected with the
building and furnishing thereof are to be decided by
the mayor and city council, or by the board of com-
missioners for schools in the city of Baltimore, if the
mayor and council so direct.

SCHOOL HOUSE SITES.

Ibid c. III. s. 1.
Sites.

43. It shall be the duty of the district commis-
sioners, with the consent of the board, to select a
suitable school house site, in each school district.

Ibid s 2.
How sites
obtained.

44. The board of school commissioners may re-
ceive donations of such sites or locations for school
houses as may be designated, if any be offered ; or
may purchase the same. Any house already built
and adapted to school purposes, which may be suita-
bly located in any school district, but in no case
shall any site be occupied or any school house be

Title.

built thereon until a good and sufficient title shall
have been obtained for the same in the corporate
name of the board of school commissioners for the
county.

Ibid. s 3.
When lands
may be con-
demned for
sites.

45. Where lands shall be required for the site of a
school house, or for enlarging a school house lot, and
the commissioner of the district shall, from any
cause, be unable to contract with the owner thereof,
the board of school commissioners may apply for a
writ of ad quod damnum to the clerk of the circuit
court for the county, or the superior court for Balti-
more city, as the case may be, who shall forthwith
issue the same, and the sheriff shall execute the said
writ and return an inquisition describing the land
and stating the amount of damages to be paid to the
owner, and the judge for the circuit court for the



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