ART. 16.] SCHOOLS—SHERIFF. 1543

avenues of said town, and shall be from time to time improved
and repaired as in the discretion of the council the public
interest may require and the resources of the town will justify.

SCHOOLS.

1886. ch. 203.

213. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of
the senate, shall, at every regular session of the general assembly,
appoint three persons in each of the following counties, namely,
Montgomery, Prince George's, Caroline and Charles counties,
who shall constitute a board of school commissioners for their
respective counties.

Ibid.

214. The term of office of the boards of county school com.
missioners created by the preceding section, shall be for two
years from the first day of May in every second year, beginning
with the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and until their
successors in office shall have been appointed and shall qualify.

8, ch. 38.

215. The school commissioners of said county shall not ex-
pend for school purposes, or for any other purpose, a greater
sum of money in any one year than shall be annually levied for
school purposes by the county commissioners, in addition to the
amount annually received by the said school commissioners from
the treasurer of the State; and they shall not borrow any sum of
money in any one year in excess of their actual receipts and in-
comes for such year, as provided for by law; and it shall not be
lawful for said county school commissioners to contract or pay any
debt in excess of the annual revenues provided by law for school
purposes; nor shall the county commissioners of said counties as-
sume or pay any debt or portion thereof contracted in violation
of the provisions of this section.

SHERIFF.

P. L. L, (1860,) art. 15, sec. 98.

216. The sheriff of said county shall hold his office at the
court-house, or within a quarter of a mile thereof, and shall at-