1180 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77.

1870, ch. 311. 1872, ch. 377, sub-ch. 10, sec. 2. 1874, ch. 463.

59. Each board of county school commissioners shall adopt
and may purchase the text books for the public schools in their
respective counties.

School Commrs, v. State Board of Education, 26 Md. 513.

1872, ch, 377.

60. 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.

Ibid.

61. They shall keep an account of the books and stationery
delivered to the several schools in their respective districts and
file their receipts for the same.

Chapter II. County Examiner.

1872, ch, 377.

62. It shall be the duty of the county examiner to examine
candidates for the profession of teacher, in the presence of at least"
one member of the board of county school commissioners, or one
or more of the district trustees, and to give to such persons as are
found qualified, under the sanction of the board at its next meet-
ing, a certificate setting forth the branches such persons are com-
petent to teach; but no certificate shall be granted without satis-
factory evidence of the moral character of the applicant.

1870, ch. 311. 1872, ch. 377, sub-ch. 11, sec. 2. 1874, ch. 463. 1888, ch. 386.

63. The certificate issued by each county examiner shall be
numbered and registered in a book kept by the board of county
school commissioners, and be delivered to their successors in
office, and shall be denominated first or second grade, as the case
may be; and the State board of education shall keep a book in