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PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. — .

Proviso.

missioners aforesaid ; provided, also, that if in any
county the schools shall be kept open less than seven
and half months of the year ending December thirty-
first, the comptroller hold from such county, the April
instalment of the state school tax.

Abatements.

7. When the levy of any year shall have been col-
lected, the comptroller shall apportion among the sev-
eral counties and the city of Baltimore, the amount
allowed on the levy for: insolvencies and abatements,
and shall transmit a statement of the same to the board
of state school commissioners.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Present board
to serve out
term.

SEC. 1. The present board of county school commis-
sioners shall serve out the full term for which they
were severally elected, unless now or hereafter dis-
qualified under the provisions of this act, and shall
continue to receive three dollars per day, for each and
every day they may deem it necessary to meet, to

Proviso.

attend to the wants of the schools ; provided, however,

Pay of commis-
sioners.

that the amount paid to each commissioner shall not
exceed in the aggregate sixty dollars per annum. The
judges of the circuit courts in the respective counties

Vacancies.

are empowered to fill any vacancies which exist or
which may occur in the present boards of county
school commissioners.

Schools on di-
viding lines of
counties free to
both counties.

2. Schools on or near the dividing line of two coun-
ties, shall be free to the children of each county, and
the board of county school commissioners of the respec-
tive counties shall have power to provide jointly for
the maintenance of said school.

Approved and in force April 4, 1870.