844 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 381

shall have no right to vote; shall prepare for adoption all re-
ports required by the County Board of Education, shall keep
all records and accounts; shall keep the minutes of the meet-
ings of the Board in a record book provided by the County
Board of Education, and shall conduct the correspondence of
the Board. Any teacher of the school district shall have the
right to appear before the Board and speak upon any ques-
tion, but no teacher or principal teacher shall be entitled to be
present before the said Board when the Board is in executive
session.

The District Board of School Trustees shall have the power,
by unanimous vote, to refuse to accept the original assignment
of any teacher who is provided for in any school under the
Board's jurisdiction, and upon the notification of such refusal,
the County Superintendent shall name another teacher for each
teacher so refused by the District Board. Provided, however,
that the County Superintendent shall not be required to name
more than three teachers for any one place in said school.

No teacher shall have the power to dismiss pupils or close
the school during school hours unless in case of emergency
without the consent of the District Board of Trustees or the
County Superintendent or the County Board of Education.

A majority of the Board of School Trustees shall have the
power to appoint a janitor for schools under their jurisdiction.
One or more of the District Board of School Trustees may
visit the -schools under their jurisdiction at least once each
month and consult with the teachers and principal of the school
as to the progress of pupils, condition and cleanliness of the
school, and the grounds belonging to same, and give such aid
as in their power for the advancement of said school.

Approved April 18th, 1918.

CHAPTER 382.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
131 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title
"Public Education," sub-title "Schools for Colored Chil-
dren," as amended by Chapter 506 of the Acts of 1916, so
as to provide that the term of schools for colored children
in Calvert County shall be not less than one hundred and
sixty (160) actual school days, or eight months in each
school year.

(Vetoed.)