PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 805

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this Act shall not abridge or
limit the power of the Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick, to
issue and sell bonds, upon the faith and credit of the Corpora-
tion, in such sums, and for such purposes, as it shall think
proper, in excess and in addition to said sum of twenty thous-
and dollars, as is now or may hereafter be authorized by law
or ordinance.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from
the first day of October, in the year nineteen hundred and
fourteen.

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 480.

JLN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 25
and 43 of Article 77 of Bagby's Annotated Code of Public
Civil Laws of Maryland, entitled "Public Education;" sub-
titles Chapter 4, '' County School Commissioners,'' and Chap-
ter 7, "Schools;" the same being designed to fix the powers
of the Boards of County School Commissioners.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General-Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 25 and 43 of Article 77, of Bagby's Anno-
tated Code of Public Civil Laws of Maryland, entitled "Public
Education;" sub-titles Chapter 4, "County School Commission-
ers," and Chapter 7, "Schools;" be and the same are hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as follows:

25. The Board of County School Commissioners shall have
the general supervision and control of all the schools in their
respective Counties; they shall build, repair and furnish school
houses; they shall purchase and distribute text-books; they
shall after advising with the principal of the school to which
the teacher is to be appointed, appoint all assistant teachers;
they shall have authority to consolidate schools when in their
judgment consolidation is practicable or desirable, provided that
in the case of a school, the yearly average of which is twelve
pupils or more, the Board of County School Commissioners
shall obtain the consent of sixty per cent, of the patrons of
the school, the school house of which is to be closed in order
that it may be consolidated with another school, and to arrange
for and to pay charges of transporting pupils to and from such
schools and have power to close any or all schools in any school