The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-12-25
CHAPTER vi.
.s Schools,

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Section ] In every school house district in
each county, established as hereinbefore prov-
ded, there shall be kept for ten months in each
year one or more schools, according to popula-
ton, which shall be free to all white youth over
SIX and under eighteen years of age. .r,e NJ,
Sec. 2. In every district school there shall be
taught photography, reading, writing, English
grammar, geography, arithmetic, history of the
United States; the Constitution of the United
States and the Constitution of the State of
Maryland, and good behavior, algebra, book
keeping, natural philosophy, vocal music, draw
ing, physiology, the laws of health and of do
nestle economy shall also be taught whenever
the School District Boards shall deem it expe-
dent. .a 81. :
Sec. 3. Whenever school numbers over six
ty children an assistant. teacher shall be employ
ed and then for every additional forty children
one additional teacher shall be appointed and
the Board of County School Commissioners shall
direct the division of the people so as to form
graded school.
Sec. a. Public examinations shall be held in
each school, once in each term, of which due
notice shall be given, that parents and others
interested in public education may attend.
Sec. s. Schools shall be kept open each week
day except Saturday, for six hours, and the
hours for teaching shall be regulated by the sew
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Sec. 6. Any person who shall disturb any
district school in session shall, upon conviction
thereof, before Justice of the Peace, forfeit and
pay twenty dollars, to be collected as other fines
and to be paid to the School District Board, for
the benefit of the school house district or said
offender shall be imprisoned until the penalty
and costs be paid, not exceeding, however, thir-
ty days. .s.
Sec. Z. The school year shall be divided into
four terms, which shall be designated the fall
term, winter term, spring term and summer
term, and the time of the beginning and closing
of each term shall be regulated by the Board of
County School Commissioners; provided, that
the financial reports of the schools of the State
shall be made up and rendered to the thrtietha
day of September, inclusive of each and every
year apd provided further, that there shall be
no change inor encreachment upon the holidays
and vacation set forth and established in the fol-
lowing paragraph: i.ts aaB,a .eol2 81.
The month of August shall be vacation
throughout the whole State, and the following
days shall be holidays viz Thanksgiving day,
from Christmas eve to the first of January, in
elusive, Washington's birthday, the Fourth day
of July, from the Friday before Easter to the
Monday after Easter, inclusive, and the Monday
of Whitsuntide, and the remaining month of
the vacation shall be fixed and designated by
the Board of County School Commissioners to
subserve the convenience and advantage of their
respective counties In case 1t may be necessary
to open school for a fraction of term, it shall
close at the end of the term, and all accounts
shall be settled at the meeting of the County
Board held at the end of the term. SOD 3
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CHAPTER. VIII. X i aG n
Section l. No person shall be employed as q
teacher undeAthis law unless such person shall
hold certificate of qualification issued by the
examiner of the county in which he proposes to
teach, the principal Of the State Normal School
or diploma as graduate Of said Normal
School