ART. 77.] THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. 1187

public schools, which shall include a school or schools for manual
or industrial training, under such ordinances, rules and regulations
as they may deem fit and proper to enact and prescribe; they
may delegate supervisory powers and control to a board of school

commissioners; may prescribe rules for building school houses,
and locating, establishing and closing schools, and may in general

do every act that may be necessary or proper in the premises.
M. & C. C. of Balto, v. Weatherby, 52 Md 442.

1872, ch. 377.

89. The board of commissioners of public schools of Balti-
more city, or by whatever name the body may be known that
has supervisory powers and control over the public schools of
Baltimore city, shall have power to examine, appoint and remove
teachers, prescribe the qualifications, fix the salaries subject to
the approval of the mayor and city council, and select text books
for schools of said city; provided, such text books shall contain
nothing of a sectarian or partisan character. The board of com-
missioners of public schools of said city shall annually make a
report to the State board of education, of the condition of the
schools under their charge, to include a statement of expendi-
tures, the number of children taught, and such other statistical
information as may be necessary to exhibit the operation of the
schools.

Ibid.

90. The mayor and city council of Baltimore shall have power
and authority to make all ordinances for the protection of the
school houses and property, and to punish any person who may
disturb the sessions of said public schools.

Ibid.

91. The said mayor and city council are hereby author-
ized and empowered to levy and collect upon the assessable prop-
erty in said city, as other taxes are levied and collected, such
amount of taxes as may be necessary to defray all the expenses
incurred for educational purposes by said mayor and city council.

Chapter 17. High Schools.

1872, ch. 877.

92. It shall be the duty of the board of county school com-
missioners, when any election district or any contiguous election.