316 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

School Buildings, to be known as Supervisor of School Build-
ings, who shall, in addition to the supervision of school build-
ings in respect to their heating, plumbing and ventilating, per-
form such other duties as the Board may direct.

101. The duties of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
and Assistant Superintendents of Public Instruction shall in-
clude the examination of teachers and their nomination to the
Board of School Commissioners for appointment or promotion,
and the supervision of schools, and the study and suggestion
of methods by which the public school system of the City of
Baltimore may be maintained and improved. They shall hold
regular meetings as a Board of Superintendents of Public
Instruction and keep a record of the same, which shall be sub-
mitted to the Board of School Commissioners. For the work
of supervision and examination, standing committees shall be
designated by the Superintendent of Public Instruction an-
nually. Of every such committee, the Superintendent of Public
Instruction or the First Assistant Superintendent of Public In-
struction, or both, shall be members ex-officio, and the number
of additional members shall be determined from time to time,
as circumstances may require. Every school shall be vis-
ited at frequent intervals by the Superintendent of Public
Instruction or one of the Assistant Superintendents of
Public Instruction, and written reports on its condition shall
be filed in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion, with such recommendations as circumstances may call
for. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Public
Instruction and his Assistants, to devote their services exclu-
sively to the public schools under such regulations as the Board
of School Commissioners may prescribe. It shall be the duty
of the said Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the aid of
the Supervisor of School Buildings, to ascertain the sanitary
condition of every school, and to report to the proper author-
ities what repairs or improvements are necessary. It shall be
the duty of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and his As-
sistants, as examiners, to ascertain, by appropriate committees,
appointed as hereinbefore provided, the training, knowledge,
aptness for teaching, and character of every future candidate for
the place of a teacher, and to report to the Board of School