ART. 77.] SCHOOLS. 1175

Chapter 7. Schools.

1872, ch. 377.

37. The schools under the charge of the board of county
school commissioners for each county, shall respectively be desig-
nated school number one, two, three, and so forth, of their
respective election districts.

Ibid.

38. In every school-house 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 popu-
lation, which shall be free to all white youths over six and under
twenty-one years of age.

1872, ch. 377. 1888, ch. 382.

39. In every district school there shall be taught orthography,
reading, writing, English grammar, geography, arithmetic, his-
tory of the United States, and good behavior; algebra, book-
keeping, natural philosophy, the constitution of the United
States, the constitution of the State of Maryland, and the his-
tory of Maryland; vocal music, drawing, physiology, the laws of
health; domestic economy shall also be taught; and the elements
of agricultural science may, in the discretion of the State board
of education, be added to the branches required to be taught in
the State normal school and in the public schools of the several
counties of this State. 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
commissioners are authorized to cause the German language to
be taught, if they shall think proper so to do.

1886, ch. 495.

40. The nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, with special
instruction as to their effects upon the human system, in con-
nection with the several divisions of the subject of physiology
and hygiene, shall be included in the branches of study taught
in the common schools, and shall be taught to and studied by all
pupils whose capacity will admit of it, in all departments of the
public schools of the State, and in all educational institutions