EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1023

340. The person or persons making application for the use
of a school house for a public meeting, shall be responsible for
all damage, to the property occurring at such meeting, ordi-
nary wear and tear excepted, and upon failure of the person
or persons to respond in damages for any such injury to the
property, the county board of education or the district board
of school trustees in charge of the school house, may refuse all
future applications for the wider use of the property until such
injury is repaired, without expense to the board in charge of
the property. It shall be the duty of the person or persons
making application for the use of a school house for a public
meeting place, to place the said school house after said meeting
in as clean a condition as it was before said meeting, and any
failure upon the part of said person or persons, to whom per-
mission has teen granted to hold a meeting [... ] said school
house after said meeting in as clean a condition [... ]
said school house was turned over to said person or persons [... ]
said meeting, will warrant said school authorities in [... ]
to allow any further use of said school house to the same par-
ties.

35. No new school house district shall be formed contain-
ing less than fifty children between the ages of 6 and 14 years;
nor shall any new school house district be formed if any one
of the old districts affected has, after the formation of the new
school house district, less than fifty children between the ages
of 6 and 14 years, except in such unusual instances as may be
approved by the state superintendent of schools.

CHAPTER 7.
Schools.

42. The schools under the jurisdiction of the county board
of education shall be numbered, No. 1, 2, 3 and so forth, of
their respective election districts.

43. Elementary schools shall be kept open for not less than
one hundred and eighty (180) actual school days and for ten
months in each year, if possible, and shall be free to all white
youths, between six and twenty years of age.

44. In every elementary school there shall be taught good
behavior, reading, spelling, penmanship, arithmetic, oral and
written English, geography, history of the United States and
of Maryland, community civics, hygiene and sanitation, and
such other branches as the State Board of Education may from
time to time prescribe.