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HIGH SCHOOLS. 01, It shall be the duty of the board of county school commis- sioners, when any election district or any contiguous election dis- tricts shall present a building for a high school, in said district or districts, to the board of county school commissioners, Jo accept the same (if in the judgment of the board there is any necessity therefor), and thereafter provide for maintenance of a high school in said district or districts, and the salaries of teachers out of the general school fund.	Id c 17, s 1 In counties
02. If the high school be established by a district or districts, the board of county school commissioners shall appoint three per- sons, who shall constitute a board of high school commissioners, and exercise like authority over said school as hereinbefore provided for boards of district school trustees; but high schools established by the county shall be under the direct control of the board of county school commissioners.	Id s 2 Board of high school commis- sioners
93. Each high school shall be visited and examined annually by the principal of the State normal school, or a professor thereof; such high school shall also be visited at least once in each school term, by the county examiner, who shall report quarterly to the board of county school commissioners the result of his observations.	Id s 3 Visitation of high school by principal of State normal school.
94. If practicable, military tactics may form a department in every high school. SCHOOLS FOR COLORED CHILDREN.	Id s 4 Military tactics.
95. It shall be the duty of the board of county school commis- sioners to establish one or more public schools in each election dis- trict for all colored youth between six and twenty years of age, to which admission shall be free, and which shall be kept open as long as the other public schools of the particular county; provided the average attendance be not less than fifteen scholars.	Id c 18, s 1. Schools for colored children
96. Each colored school shall be under the direction of a special board of school trustees, to be appointed by the board of county school commissioners, and shall be subject to the same laws for its government, and furnish instruction in the same branches as the schools for white children.	1874, c. 463. c. 18, s 2 Special board
97. The comptroller shall apportion the sum appropriated for the support of the colored schools of the several counties and the city of Baltimore, in proportion to their respective colored popula- tion between the ages of five and twenty years; said apportionment to be made at the time he apportions the levy for the white schools.	1872, c 377, c. 18, s. 3 Appropriation for support of
9 8. The total amount of taxes paid for school purposes by the colored people of any county, or in the city of Baltimore, together with any donations that may be made for the purpose, shall also be devoted to the maintenance of the schools for colored children.	Id s 4 Taxes paid by colored people, and donations, appropriated to school fund