1183 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77.

districts shall present a building for a high school, in said district
or districts, to the board of county school commissioners, to
accept the same, (if in the judgment of the board there is any
necessity therefor,) and thereafter provide for the maintenance
of a high school in said district or districts, and the salaries of
teachers, out of the general school fund.
Wiley v. School Comm'rs, 51 Md. 403.

1872, ch. 377.

93. 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 pro-
vided 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.

Ibid.

94. 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 obser-
vations.

Ibid.

95. If practicable, military tactics may form a department in
every high school.

Chapter 18. Schools for Colored Children.

1872, ch. 377.

96. It shall be the duty of the board of county school commis-
sioners to establish one or more public schools in each election
district for all colored youths between six and twenty years of age,
to which admission shall be free, and which shall be kept open aa
long as the other public schools of the particular county; provided,
the average attendance be not less than fifteen scholars.

1870, ch. 811. 1872, ch. 377, sub-ch. 18, sec. 2. 1874, ch. 468.

97. Each colored school shall be under the direction of a
special board of school trustees, to be appointed by the board of