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shall perform such other duties pertaining to his office as
may from time to time be prescribed by law.

Board of Educa-
tion.

Sec. 2. There shall be a State Board of Education,
consisting of the Governor, the Lieutenant-Governor, the
Speaker of the House of Delegates, and the State Super-
intendent of Public Instruction, which Board shall perform
such duties as the General Assembly may direct.

School Commis-
sioners to be ap-

pointed by Board
of Education.

Sec. 3. There shall be in each county such number of
School Commissioners as the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction shall deem necessary, who shall be
appointed by the State Board of Education; shall hold
office for four years, and shall perform such duties and
receive such compensation as the General Assembly or
State Superintendent may direct; the School Commis-

Baltimore city
excepted.

sioners of Baltimore city shall remain as at present con-
stituted, and shall be appointed, as at present, by the
Mayor and City Council, subject to such alterations and
amendments as may be made from time to time by the
General Assembly, or the ,said Mayor and City Council.

Uniform system
to be provided by
the Legislature.

Sec. 4. The General Assembly, at its first session after
the adoption of this Constitution, shall provide a uniform
system of Free Public Schools, by which a school shall be
kept open and supported free of expense for tuition in each
school district, for at least six months in each year; and
in case of a failure on the part of the General Assembly so
to provide, the system reported to it by the State Super-
intendent of Public Instruction, shall become the system of
Free Public Schools of the State; Provided, That the
report of the State Superintendent shall be in conformity
with the provisions of this Constitution, and such system

Alterations may
be made.

shall be subject to such alterations, conformable to this
Article, as the General Assembly may from time to time
enact.

Tax of ten cents
on $100.

Sec. 5. The General Assembly shall levy at each regular
session after the adoption of this Constitution an annual
tax of not less than ten cents on each one hundred dollars
of taxable property throughout the State, for the support
of the Free Public Schools, which tax shall be collected at