ART. 77] STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 1713

1888, art. 77, sec. 7. 1870, ch. 311. 1872, ch. 377, sub-ch. 2, sec. 3. 1874,
ch. 463. 1892, ch. 515. 1894, ch. 110. 1894, ch 378. 1904, ch. 584.

7. The board of district school trustees shall be composed
of three persons, residents of the school district and county
where said school may be located, who shall be appointed
by the county school commissioners on the first day of May,
or at their first meeting thereafter, which must be held during
the month of May, in each year, and who shall meet within
thirty days after their appointment and enter upon the duties
assigned them in chapter 5 of this article; at their first meet-
ing they shall appoint a chairman and shall give notice of their
appointment to the secretary of the board of county school
commissioners; when the trustees appoint a principal teacher,
and the appointment shall be confirmed by the board of
county school commissioners, the said principal teacher shall
be ex-officio secretary of the board of district trustees; dis-
trict school trustees shall take and subscribe the oath or
affirmation of office prescribed by the constitution before the
county school commissioners, county superintendent, clerk to
county school board, or any other officer duly authorized to
administer oaths.

Chapter 3. State Board of Education.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1872, ch. 377.

8. The State board of education shall hold regular meetings
on the last Wednesday in May, August, November and Feb-
ruary of every year, and special meetings as occasions may
require.

Duer v. Dashiell, 91 Md. 669, 688.

Ibid. sec. 9. 1872, ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584.

9. The office of the State board of education shall be in
Annapolis.

Ibid. sec. 10, 1872, ch. 377... 1904, ch. 584.

10. The members of the board shall receive no salary,
but their actual expenses incurred in attending the meeting of
the board shall be paid, and they are authorized to employ
clerical assistance when necessary; the treasurer of the State,
upon the warrant of the comptroller, is hereby authorized to
pay the president of the board such amount, not exceeding
two thousand dollars per annum, as he shall show to be due
for the necessary expenses.

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