lxviii CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ARTS. 8 & 9.

of, and safely keep all Papers, Records, Relics, and other Me-
morials connected with the Early History of Maryland, not.
belonging to any other office.

SEC. 6. The qualified voters of Worcester County shall, on the
Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November,
in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and every two years
thereafter, elect a Wreck Master for said County, whose duties
and compensation shall be the same as are now or may be here-
after prescribed by Law; -the term of office of said Wreck Master-
shall commence on the first Monday of January next succeeding
his election, and a vacancy in said office shall be filled by the
County Commissioners of said County for the residue of the term..

ARTICLE Tin.

EDUCATION.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly, at its first session after the
adoption of this Constitution, shall by Law establish throughout
the State a thorough and efficient system of Free Public Schools;.
and shall provide by taxation, or otherwise, for their maintenance^

SEC. 2. The system of Public Schools, as now constituted, shall
remain in force until the end of the said first session of the Gen-
eral Assembly, and shall then expire; except so far as adopted or
continued by the General Assembly.

SEC. 3. The School Fund of the State shall be kept inviolate,,
and appropriated only to the purposes of Education.

ARTICLE IX.

MILITIA AND MILITARY AFFAIRS.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly shall make, from time to-
time, such provision for organizing, equipping and disciplining the
Militia, as the exigency may require, and pass such Laws to pro-
mote Volunteer Militia Organizations as may afford them effectual
-encouragement.