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1888, art. 77, sec. 51. 1872, ch. 377.

55. The board of county school commissioners shall examine
any charge preferred against the moral character of any teacher
within their county; they shall give the teacher reasonable
notice of the charge in writing, and an opportunity to defend
himself; and if the charge be sustained they shall annul the
teacher's certificate and shall give notice thereof to the State
board of education; provided, that an appeal shall lie to the
State board of education, whose decision shall be final.

Ibid. sec. 62. 1872, ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584.

56. Any person holding a first-class teacher's certificate, or
a diploma of a respectable college, or of a State normal school,
who has been a teacher for seven years, of which five shall
have been spent in the State of Maryland, may apply to the
State board of education for a life certificate, which, if granted,
shall exempt him or her from any further examinations; said
certificate may be annulled by said board at any time on
account of immoral or unprofessional conduct.

Ibid, sec 53. 1872, ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584.

57. The salaries of the teachers of each county shall be
fixed by the board of county school commissioners; provided,
that no white teacher regularly employed in a public school of
the State of Maryland, having an average attendance of fifteen
pupils or more, shall receive as salary less than three hundred
dollars per school year.

1902, ch. 196, sec. 53 A and sec. 2. 1904, ch. 584.

58. Whenever any person in this State has taught in any of
the public or normal schools thereof twenty-five years, and has
reached the age of sixty years, and his or her record as such
teacher has been without reproach, and by reason of physical
or mental disability or infirmity is unable to teach longer, the
said teacher may lay his or her case before the State board of
education, and the said board shall proceed to consider the
same, and if the facts are found as above stated, the said
teacher shall be placed upon a list, a record of which shall be
kept by the said board, to be known as the "Teachers' Retired
List, " and the names upon the teachers' retired list shall be
regularly certified to by said board to the comptroller of the
treasury of this State, and every person so placed upon the said
"Retired List" shall be entitled to receive a pension from this
State of two hundred dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly by