ART. 27. ] PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

school number one, two, three, and so forth, of their respective
election districts

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38. In every schoolhouse district in each county, established as
hereinafter provided, there shall be kept for ten months in each
year if possible, one or more schools, according to population, which
shall be free to all white youths over six and under twenty-one
years of age.

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Time of session.

39., In every district school there shall be taught orthography,
reading, writing, English grammar, geography, arithmetic, history
of the United States, and good behavior, algebra, bookkeeping,
natural philosophy, the Constitution of the United States, the Con-
stitution of the State of Maryland, and the history of Maryland,
vocal music, drawing, physiology, the laws of health, domestic
economy, shall also be taught; whenever the board of district school
trustees shall deem it expedient, and in districts where there is a
considerable German population, the board of county school com-

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Course of
instruction.

missioners are authorized to cause the German language to be
taught if they shall think proper so to do.

German
language.

40. Whenever a school numbers more than fifty children in
average attendance, an assistant may be employed by the board of
county school commissioners; and for every additional forty children
one teacher may be appointed, and the board of county school com-
missioners shall direct the division of the pupils so as to form a
graded school.

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Assistants.

41. Whenever the number of children attending school in any
school district is greater than one hundred, then the board of county
school commissioners may, with the consent of the board of district
school trustees, establish schools of different grades, or the school
district maybe divided; and whenever the average attendance in
any school for any two consecutive terms is less than ten pupils,
then the said schools may be closed by the board of county school
commissioners, provided, that the board of district school trustees
may keep the school open in part at the expense of the district,
and shall receive their proportion of the school fund for said school,
rating a full school at twenty scholars.

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Schools of dif-
ferent grades.

42. Public examinations shall be held in each school twice a
year, of which due notice shall be given, that parents and others
interested in education may attend

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Examinations

43. Schools shall be kept open each week-day except Saturday,
for six hours, and the hours for teaching shall be regulated by the
several boards of county school commissioners.

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Sessions.

44. Any person who shall disturb any public school in session,
shall, upon conviction thereof before a justice of the peace, be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall forfeit and pay twenty
dollars, to be collected as other fines, to be paid to the board of
district school trustees for the benefit of the schoolhouse district,
or said offender shall be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days, or
both, in the discretion of the justice of the peace.

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Disturbance of
schools