ART. 27. ] PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

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50. Any person holding a first grade teacher's certificate, or the
diploma of a respectable college, or of a State normal school, who
has been a teacher for seven years, of which five shall have been
spent in the State of Maryland, may apply to the State board of
education for a life certificate, which if granted shall exempt him
from any further examinations; said certificate may be annulled by
said board at any time on account of immoral or unprofessional
conduct.

Id s 5
Life certificate

51. The salaries of teachers of each county shall be fixed by the
board of county school commissioners.

PUPILS.

Id s 6
Salaries

52. All white youth between the ages of six and twenty-one
years shall be admitted into the public schools of the State, the
studies of which they may be able to pursue; provided, that when-
ever there are graded schools the teachers and board of district
school trustees shall determine to which school pupils shall be ad-
mitted.

Id c 9, s 1.
Pupils.

53. The hoard of district school trustees shall have power to
suspend and expel pupils for cause; provided, that an appeal shall
lie to the board of county school commissioners, whose decision
shall be final.

Id s 2
Suspension and
expulsion of
pupils.

54. Children living remote from the school of the district in
which they reside may attend school in an adjoining district, with
the consent of the boards of the respective school districts.

Id. s 3.
Children resid-
ing in different
districts.

55. Every child, before being admitted to any public school,
shall produce a certificate from a regular physician that he has been
properly vaccinated.

TEXTBOOKS.

Id s 4
Vaccination

56. Schoolbooks shall contain nothing of a sectarian or partisan
character.

Id c 10, s 1
Textbooks

57. Each board of county school commissioners shall adopt, and
may purchase the textbooks for the public schools in their respec-
tive counties.

1874, c. 463, c 10,
s 2
Purchase of
textbooks.

58. The board of county school commissioners shall authorize
the delivery of books and stationery to the various schools in the
county, under such rules and regulations as they may adopt. No
pupil shall be required to pay more than one dollar quarterly for use
of said books and stationery; but any pupil, on account of pecuniary
inability, may be exempted from payment by the board of district
school trustees; provided, nevertheless, that parents or pupils may
purchase their own books when they may think proper.

1872, c 377, c. 10,
s 3
Payment For
books and
stationery. -

59. The board of county school commissioners shall keep an ac-
count of the books and stationery delivered to the several schools
in their respective districts, and file their receipts for the same.

Id s 4.
Accounts for
books and
stationery.