The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-05-12

Sec. 2. The board OF district school
commissioners shall see that every school
house site is provided with suitable outbuild.
ings.
Sec. 8. No school house shall be used
for any other purpose than public school
purposes and school district meetings, un
less by consent Of the Board of county
school commissioners, or majority ofthem.
Sec. 4. Contiguous portions Of two or
more school house districts may, with the
consent of the board of county school com.
missioners, combine and form a new school
house district, and when thus formed, the
said new school house district shall be in.
vested with all the rights and powers here.
inbefore set forth as pertaining to snch dis.
tricts provided, that the new school house
district thus formed, or said district from
which it may be formed, shall not contain
less than thirty five legal resident voters.
CHAPTER vi.
School Houses and SITES.
Sec. /. 1t shall be the duty Of the board
ofcounty school commissioners to select a
suitable school house site in each district
whenever the necessities oft the public school
demand n change Of site or sites already
built upon, or new school house to be
built.
Sec. 2. The board Of county school com
missioners may receive donations Of such
sites or locations for school houses or of
houses already built, adapted to school pur
poses or suitably located, or may purchase
the same, but in no case shall any site be
built upon. or any house be occupied, until
a good and sufficient title shall have been
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ofthe board of county school commissioners.
Sec 3. When the lands shall be requir
ed for the site Of y school house, or for en-.
larging school house lot, and the board of
county school commissioners SHALL from
any cause, be unable to contract with the
owner thereof, the board Of county school
commissioners may apply for writ of ad
QuOd ddD,nltm to the clerk Of the circuit
court for the county, who shall forthwith
issue the same, and the Sheriff shall execute
the said writ and return an inquisition in
term or during recess, hear motion to con.
firm such inquisition on such notice to the
parties as he may direct, aud confirm or
quash the same, and if he quashes the in.
QUESTION he shall order new one forthwith
to be taken, but no lot so taken or enlarged
shall exceed in whole one acre, including
the land occupied by the school building.
Sec. 4. In all cases when school house
sites are thus purchased or condemned, the
costs thereof shall be paid rs other school
house property is paid for.
Sec. 5. Every school house shall be built
and finished according to plans and draw
ings issued from the Office of county school
commissioners.
CHAPTER VII,
Schools.
Sec. |. The schools under the charge of the
Board Of County School Com mtnission ners for each
county, shall respectively be designated school
No. |, 2, 3, &c, of their respective election
districts.
See. 2. In every school house district in
each county, established as hereinafter prOyid-
ed there shall be kept FOR ten months Ia each
year, one or more schools, according to popu-
lation, which shall be free to all white youth
over six and under twenty-One years of age.
Sec. 3. In every district school there shall
be taught orthography, Reading, Writing,
English Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic,
History OF the United States, the Constitution
OF the United States, the Constitution Of the
State of Maryland, and Good Behavior, Alge-
bra, Bookkeeping, Natural Philosophy, Vocal
Music, Drawing, Physiology, the Laws of
Health and Of Domestic Economy, shall also be.
taught whenever the Board Of District School
Commissioners shall deem il eEpedient
Sec. I. Whenever n school numbers more
than forty-hve'children in average attendance,
an assistant may be employed by the Board Of
County School Commissioners, and for every
additional forty children one teacher may be
appointed, and the Board Of County School
Commissioners shall direct the division of the
pupils so as TO form graded school.
Sec. 3, Whenever the number of children
attending school in any school district is grea-
ter than one hundred, thsn the Board OF Coun-
ty School Commissioners may, with the consent
OF the Board Of District School Com missiouers.
establish schools Of different grades, or the
school district may be divided, and whenever
the average attendance in any school for any
two consecutive terms Is less than ten pupils,
then said school may be closed by the Board
Of County School Commissioner; provided,
that the Board Of District School Commission
ers may keep the school open in part at the
expense Of the district, and shall receive their
proper ton Of the school fund for said school,
rating q full school at twenty scholars.
Sec. 9. Public examinations shall be held in
each school twice a year, of which due notice
shall be given, that the parents and others in
terested in education may attend.
Sec, 7. Schools shall be kept open each week
day except Saturday, for six hours, and the
hours for teaching shall be regulated by the
several Boards Of County School Commission
ers
oec. o. any person VINO snail disturb any
district school In session, shall, upon convic-
ton thereof before Justice of the Peace, for
felt and pay twenty dollars, to be collected as
other lines, TO be paid to the Board Of District
School Commissioners for the benefit OF the
school house district, or said offender shall be
imprisoned until the penalty aud costs be paid,
not exceeding, however, thirty days.
Sec. 0. The school year shall be divided
into four terms, which shall be designated the
fall term, winter term, spring term, and sum.
mer term, and the time Of beginning and clos
ing each term shall be regulated by the Board
OF County School Commissioners; provided.
that the financial reports to the schools Of the
State shall be made up and rendered 10 the
thirtieth day Of September, inclusive, Of each
and every year; and provided further. that
there shall be no change in or encroachment
upon the holidays and vacation set forth and
established in the following paragraph:
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 day Of
January inclusive, Washing toms Birthday.
the fourth day July, from the Friday before
Easter TO the Monday after Easter inclusive,
and the Monday OF Whitsuntide, and the re.
naming month Of the vacation shall be 6xed
apd 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 4
fraction OF term, 1t shall close at the end Of
the term, and all accounts shall be settled Al
The meeting Of the Board OF County School
Commissioners, held at the close Of the term.
CHAPTER VIII,
Tsaehera
Sec. l. No person shall be employed az a
teacher under this law, unless such rerson shall
bold certificate of qualification, issued by The
Examiner Of the county In which he or She
proposes to teach, or from the Principal OF Inc
State Normal School, diploma as grsdpa Of
said Normal School, or certificate from the
Board Of State School Commissioners as here
inbefore provided.
Sec. .. Teachers shall be appointed by the
Board Of District School Commissioners. and
may be removed at any time said Board maj
think proper, after thirty days, nnfine -