1178 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77.

Chapter B. Teachers.

1872, ch 377.

48. No person shall be employed as a teacher under this article,
unless such person shall hold a certificate of qualification issued
by the examiner of the county in which he or she proposes to
teach, or from the principal of the State normal school a diploma,
as graduate of said normal school, or certificate from the State
board of education, as hereinbefore provided.

Ibid.

49. Teachers shall be appointed by the board of district school
trustees, and may be removed at any time said board may think
proper, after thirty days' notice given to the teacher in writing.

1870, ch. 311. 1872, ch. 377, sub-ch. 8, sec. 3. 1874, ch. 463.

50. Teachers shall enter into their quarterly reports an accu-
rate account of the attendance of pupils, of text books used, and
branches taught, and such other statistics as may be required,
and make due returns thereof to the board of county school com-
missioners at the end of each term; and no teacher shall be-
entitled to receive payment for services until the quarterly report,
properly filled up and completed, shall be so returned. The
quarterly reports shall be filed by the board of county school
commissioners for the purpose of making the annual return to
the State board of education.

School Commrs, v. Adams, 43 Md. 349.

1872, ch. 377.

511 The board of county school commissioners shall examine
any charge preferred against the moral character of any teacher
within their county; they shall give the teacher reasonable notice
of the charge in writing, and an opportunity to defend himself;
and if the charge be sustained they shall annul the teacher's cer-
tificate and shall give notice thereof to the State board of educa-
tion ; provided, that an appeal shall lie to the State board of
education, whose decision shall be final.

Ibid.

52. Any person holding a first grade teacher's certificate, or
the diploma of a respectable college, or of a State normal school,