ART. — .] PUBLIC EDUCATION.

186

3. When lands shall be required for the site of a
school house, or for enlarging a school house lot, and
the school district board shall from any cause be
unable to contract with the owner thereof, the board

Condemnation
for sites.

of county school commissioners may apply for a writ
of od quod dammum to the clerk of the circuit court for
the county, who shall forthwith issue the same, and
the sheriff shall execute the said writ, and return an

Writ, ad quod
damnum.

inquisition describing the land and stating the amount
of damages to be paid to the owner, and the judge of
the circuit court for the county may, at any time after
the return of the inquisition, in term or during recess,

Inquisition.

hear a motion to confirm such inquisition, on such
notice to the parties as he may direct, and confirm or
quash the same; and if he quashes the inquisition, he
shall order a new one forthwith to be taken, but no lot
so taken or enlarged shall exceed in the whole one acre,
including the land occupied by the school buildings.

Confirmed, &c.

4. In all cases when school house sites are thus pur-
chased or condemned, the cost thereof shall be paid as
other school house property is paid for.

Cost of sites.

CHAPTER VI.
Schools.

SEC. 1. In every school house district in each
county, established as hereinbefore provided, there
shall be kept for ten months in each year, one or more
schools, according to population, which shall be free to

How long
schools kept
open.

all white youth over six and under eighteen years of
age.

Free to whites.

2. In every district school there shall be taught
orthography, reading, writing, English grammar, geo-
graphy, arithmetic, history of the United States, the
constitution of the United States, the constitution of
the state of Maryland; and good behavior. Algebra,
book-keeping, natural philosophy, vocal music, draw-
ing physiology, the laws of health and of domestic
economy shall also be taught whenever the school dis-
trict board shall deem it expedient.

What taught.