348 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

vice and consent of the State board of education the honorary
degree of doctor of pedagogy.

Approved April 3, 1890.

		CHAPTER 324.
		AN ACT to amend sections twenty-four and forty-seven, of
		article seventy-seven, of the Code of Public General Laws, en-
		titled "Public Education."
		SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of Maryland,
	To amend.	That sections twenty-four and forty-seven, of article seventy-
		seven, of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled " Public Edu-
		cation," be amended and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:
		SEC. 24. The board of county school commissioners shall, on or
		before the first day of October, in every year, make a report to the
		State board of education, in such form as may be prescribed by
		the latter, of the schools and all matters affecting the educational
	To report.	interests of the county; they shall also publish annually, in the month of November, in such form and manner as they may deem.
		proper, a statement of their receipts and disbursements, including
		the money received and expended on account of text books, and a
		statement of the indebtedness of the board at the close of the
		fiscal year, and forward a copy to the State board of education.
		SEC. 47. The school year shall be divided into four terms, which
		shall be designated the fall term, winter term, spring term and
	School	summer term, and the time of beginning and closing each term
	year.	shall be regulated by the board of county school commissioners ;
		provided, that the financial reports of the schools of the State
		shall be made up, and rendered to the thirty-first day of July, in-
		elusive, of each and every year; and, provided further, that there
		shall be no change in or encroachment upon the holidays and va-
		cations set forth and established in the following paragraphs :
		The month of August shall be vacation throughout the whole
		State, and the following days shall be holidays, viz : Thanksgiving
		day; from Christmas eve to the first day of January, inclusive ;
		Washington's birthday; the fourth day of July; from the Friday
	Holidays.	before Easter to the Monday after Easter, inclusive, and the Mon-
		day of Whitsuntide, and the remaining month of vacation shall
		be fixed and designated by the board of county school commis-
		sioners, to subserve the convenience and advantage of their re-
		spective counties, in case it may be necessary to open school for a
		fraction of a term, it shall close at the end of the term, and all
		accounts shall be settled at the meeting of the board of county
		school commissioners held at the close of the term.