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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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such vacancy, or they may authorise the remaining
trustees to fill said vacancy.
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Examiners.
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SEC. 9. And be it enacted,
That said board of school
commissioners shall constitute a board of examiners,
whose duty it shall be to examine all persons recommended
by a board of trustees as teachers, in any of the
school districts in said county; and said commissioners
may appoint a person or persons qualified to examine
applicants for teaching as aforesaid, and if said commissioners
shall be satisfied, after due examination has
been made, that the applicant be a person of good moral
character, and possessed of sufficient learning and otherwise
qualified for teaching; then said board shall deliver
a certificate to the person so examined, which certificate
of qualification shall be annually presented to
said board for renewal, and said school commissioners
shall renew the same unless some valid objection be
offered by the trustees of that particular school district.
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Duty of trustees.
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SEC. 10. And be it enacted,
That it shall be the
duty of the trustees of the several school districts of the
county, as soon after their election, to ascertain the
number of white children between the ages of five and
seventeen years in their respective districts, and report
the same to the president of the board of school commissioners;
and in those districts in which there is no
school house, it shall be the duty of the trustees of said
district forthwith to make arrangements for the erection
of a school house and procuring the necessary furniture
for the same, and the school commissioners of the county
shall make such appropriation as to them may seem
just and proper, to be expended by said trustees in
building and furnishing said school house, but in selecting
the site for said school house, the said trustees
shall locate it so far as practicable to suit the convenience
of all the inhabitants of the district; they shall
assemble annually or oftener in case of a vacancy, and
recommend to the board of school commissioners a
teacher for the school within their district, and no teacher
shall be employed unless he shall furnish a certificate
from the board of school commissioners, saying he
has been examined as teacher by authority of said
board, and found to be qualified as such under the provisions
of this act; and if any trustees shall at any time
employ, and keep in their school any teacher who has
not obtained the required certificate or a renewal of the
same, the school commissioners of the county shall
withhold from the teacher all compensation as such,
and from the school district in which such teacher was
employed, all benefit of the school funds until the provisions
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