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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Duties of
trustees.
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SEC. 16. And be it enacted,
That the following
duties shall devolve on the trustees to be elected under
the provisions of this act: first, it shall be their duty,
immediately after their election, to ascertain the number
of white children in their respective districts, between
the age of five and seventeen years, and report the same
to the president of the board of school commissioners
of the county, and if there be no school house in the
district, they shall make the necessary arrangements for
erecting a school house, and procuring the necessary
furniture for the same, and one-half of that portion of
the school fund of the county which said district may
be entitled to for one year, may be expended by said
trustees in building and furnishing said school house,
and the trustees are hereby authorised and empowered
to levy on the taxable property of the district for
such balance, if any, as may be necessary for completing
said school house, but in selecting the site for a
school house, said trustees shall locate it so far as practicable
to suit the convenience of all the inhabitants of
the district; secondly, they shall assemble annually or
oftener in case of a vacancy, and elect one or more
teachers for the school or schools within their respective
district, but no teacher shall be eligible unless he or
she shall furnish a certificate from the board of examiners,
agreeably to the tenth section of this act; and if
a teacher shall have been previously employed in any
school district before said teacher can be, he
or she shall have obtained from the board of commissioners
a renewal of said certificate, as in the eleventh
section of this act provides; and if the trustees should
at any time elect or keep in their schools any teacher or
teachers who have not obtained a certificate of qualification,
or a renewal of the same, the board of school
commissioners are hereby authorised and directed to
withhold their signatures from any order for the payment
of said teacher or teachers, or for the payment of any
other expense connected with said school or schools, until
the provisions of this section be complied with; thirdly,
it shall be the duty of said trustees to superintend the
school or schools within their own immediate districts;
to make rules and regulations for the good government
of said schools; to give all orders on the board of school
commissioners of Washington county for the payment
of teachers and other expenses connected with their
schools; they shall see that the books and stationery be
not destroyed or wasted; they may suspend or dismiss
a teacher for immoral conduct, or for any other cause,
when in their judgment the interest of the school may
require it; they may at any time suspend or expel a
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