ART. 77] DUTIES OF THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 503

that the present board of school commissioners f or Garrett county
shall remain in office for the term for which they were appointed
by the Governor, and until their successors are selected and
qualified. The member or members of each board who shall
serve for two, four and six years, respectively, to be designated
by the Governor at the time of making the appointments, and
hereafter, the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, shall appoint at every regular session of the General
Assembly in each of the counties of Baltimore, Carroll, Fred-
erick and Washington, two county school commissioners and in
each of the other counties, one county school commissioner to
serve for a term of six years from the first day of August next
succeeding their appointment, so that one-third of each board
of county school commissioners shall be appointed every two
years.

Co. Commrs, v. School Commrs. 77 Md. 288. Hooper v. New, 85 Md
581. Ash v. McVey, 85 Md. 126.

1892, ch. 515. 1894, ch. 378.

7. The board of district school trustees shall be composed of
three persons, who shall be appointed by the county school com-
missioners on the first day of May, or at their first meeting there-
after, in each year, and who shall meet within thirty days after
their appointment, and enter upon the duties assigned them in
chapter five of this article. At their first meeting they shall
appoint a chairman to hold office for one year, and shall give
notice of the appointment to the secretary of the board of county
school commissioners.

Duties of the State Board of Education.

1898, ch. 221.

11. The said board of education shall, to the best of their
ability, cause the provisions of this article to be carried into effect
and may, if necessary, institute legal proceedings for that pur-
pose, with the direction and advice of the attorney general; they
shall enact by-laws for the administration of the public school
system, not at variance with this article, which when enacted
and published shall have the force of law. They shall have the
power to suspend or remove any examiner or teacher who may
be found inefficient in or incompetent for the discharge of duties