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Ibid c. III, s. 1.
School com-
missioners not
to be interested
in contracts for
building school
houses, &c.
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PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. [ART. — .
124. No member of a board of school commis-
sioners shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in
any contract for building school houses or furnish-
ing articles purchased for the schools under his
charge, whether for permanent use or immediate
consumption.
SOURCES OF INCOME.
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1867, c. 123 repeals 1865, c. 160, t. IV, c. IV, a. 1, and re-enacts the same as follows:
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1867, c 123.
Taxes for sup-
port of free
public schools,
&c.
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125. A state tax of fifteen, cents on each one hun-
dred dollars of taxable property throughout the state
shall be levied annually for the support of the free
public schools, which tax shall be collected at the
same time and by the same agent as the general
state levy, and shall be paid into the treasury of
the state, to be distributed by the treasurer to the
board of school commissioners of the city of Balti-
more and the several counties in proportion to their
respective population between the ages of five and
twenty years, but nothing herein contained shall be
so construed as to prevent the county commissioners
of the several counties of the state from levying and
collecting in the same manner any additional taxes
for the building of school houses, or for paying for
such school houses as have been built since January,
eighteen hundred and sixty-five, in any school dis-
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Proviso.
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trict or sub-district within the state ; provided, a
majority of the votes in such district or sub-district
shall so determine and require, by a majority of its
voters, at either a regular or special election held for
the purpose, of which election a notice of at least
fifteen days shall be given by the president of the
board of school commissioners of the county, or the
president of the board of county commissioners.
1865, c. 160 further enacts as follows :
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1805, c 160,
t IV, c. IV, s. 2.
Free school
fund.
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126. The treasurer shall pay as heretofore to each
of the counties and the city of Baltimore, the pro-
portion of the free school fund to which such city
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