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

CHAPTER TX.
Text Books.
Section /. School books shall contain nothing
Of a sectariau or partisan character.
Sec. 2. Each Board of County School Com
mssioners shall purchase the text books for
their respective counties, after having examined
such as may be recommended by the Board of
Trustees of the State Normal School, whose duty
il hereby made to present q list of books to said
County Boards with their written reasons for
such recommendation.
Sec. 8. They shall authorize the delivery Of
books and stationery to the various schools in
the county upon the order of the commissioners
of the election districts, or of the teacher, en-
dorsed by the trustee of the school district pro-
vided, that no pupil shall be required to pay
more than one dollar per quarter for such use,
and that any pupil may be exempted from pay
ment in the discretion Of School District Board.
Sec. 4. The Board of County School Com
missioners shall keep an account of the books
and stationery delivered to the several schools
in their respective Districts and file their receipts
for the same.
Sec. 8. The Board Of County School Com
missoners shall publish annually in elf the news
papers of the county exhibit of the cost of the
text books and the distribution thereof, and the
money received therefor from the several school
house districts.
TITLE II-MoDES OF SECURING COM
PETENT TEA CHEERS.
CHAPTER /.
Examination of Teachers
Section /. It shall be the duty of each Board
Of County School Commissioners to appoint q
county examiner, whose duty it shall be to ex-
anime candidates for the profession of teaching
in the presence of at least three members of the
Board of School Commissioners, to give to such
persons as are found qualified, under the sane
ton Of the said board, certificate setting forth
the branches such persons are competent TO
teach. But NO certificate shall be granted with.
out satisfactory evidence of the moral character
Of the applicant.
Sec. Q. The certificates issued by each county
examiner shall be numbered and registered in
book kept by the Board of County School
Commissioners, and be delivered to their sue
cessors in Office, and shall be denominated first
or second grade, as the case may be; and the
principal of the State Normal School shall keep
book in the same manner as the county exam
liners. Certificates of the first grade shall en-
brace photography, reading, writing, arithmetic,
geography, history, English grammar, book
keeping, algebra and natural philosophy, and
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history and English grammar.
Sec. 3. No certificate of qualification as a.
teacher shall be issued to any male under nine
teen years of age, or to female under seventeen
years of age.
Sec. 4. No certificate shall continue in force
longer than three years.
Sec 8. The county examiner shall hold Iegu-
lar examinations of teachers at each quarterly
meeting Of the board, and at such other times
as the board Of County School Commissioners
may direct.
Sec. s. 1t shall be the duty of each county ex-
aminer at least twice within each school year to
visit the schools in his county in counties having
fifty schools or less, and once in counties having
more, he shall observe the method of the teach
er, and give him such practical suggestions az
the circumstances may prompt he shall when
ever possible, attend public examinations, and
report quarterly, in detail, the result of his OBJ.
servations to the Board Of County School Com.
missioners he shall receive as compensation fol
his service as treasurer secretary and examiner