A. W. BRADFOED, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

ted, or in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, if the

offence be committed in the city of Baltimore, be
punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by
imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding
thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court.
The fine shall be paid one-half to the informer and
one-half to the school house fund for the school
district.

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Sac. 5. Whenever, in the opinion of the voters
of any school district, as expressed at the annual
school meeting, the location of a school house
ought to be changed, it shall be the duty of the
Board of'School Commissioners to inquire into tbe
facts of the case, and if they deem it expedient,
they may sell and convey the said school house and
lands and appropriate the avails to the erection of
another school house upon such site as they may
select.

School site
may be chang-
ed.

Sec. 6. No school house shall be used for any
other than public school purposes and school dis-
trict meetings, without the consent first obtained of
the District Commissioner. The location of school
houses in the city of Baltimore, and all matters
connected with the building and furnishing thereof
are to be decided by the Mayor and City Council,
or by the Board of Commissioners for Schools in
the city of Baltimore, if the Mayor and Council so
direct.

CHAPTER III.— SCHOOL HOUSE SITES.

For what pur-
pose house may
be used.

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the District
Commissioners, with the consent of the Board, to
select a Suitable School House site, in each School
District.

Who shall se-
lect site.

Sec. 2. The Board of School Commissioners may
receive donations of such sites or locations for
school houses as may be designated, if any be
offered ; or may purchase the same. Any house
already built and adapted to school purposes,
which may be suitably located in any school dis-
trict, but in no case shall any site be occupied or
any school house be built thereon until a good
and sufficient title shall have been obtained for the
same in the corporate name of the Board of School
Commissioners for the county.

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Sites may be
purchased.