The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-05-04

Sec. :. Schools shall be kept open each
week day, except Saturday, for six hours,
aud the hours for teaching shall be regala-
| ted BY the several Boards Of County School
/ Commissioners.
Sec. 8. Any person who shall distarb
any public school 10 session, shall, upon
conviction thereof before a Justice Of the
Peace. be deemed guilty Of q misdemeanor,
and shall forfeit aud pay twenty dollars, to
/ be collected as other lines, TO be paid to the
/ Board Of District School Trustees, for Che
benefit Of the school house district, or said
offender shall be imprisoned not exceeding
/ thirty days, or both. in the discretion Of
the Justice Of the Peace.
Sec. 9. The school year shall be divi-
| dei into four terms. which shall be des.
/ ignated the Fall Term, Winter Term,
I Spring Term and Summer Term, and the
time Of beginning and closing each term
shall be regulated By the Board Of County
| School Commissioners provided, tina, the
/ financial reports Of the schools Of the State
shall be made up and rendered to the thir
tieih day Of September, inclusive Of each
and every year and provi cd further, that
there shall be no change in or encroaeh.
Iueht upon the holidays aud vacations Sc;
forth and established in the foil owing
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 hrst day Of January, inclusive, Wash.
ington's Birthday, the Fourth day Of July,
from the Friday before Easter 70 the Non.
1 day after Easter inclusive, aud the MoR.
day Of Whi,suntide, and the remaining
month Of vacation shall be Fixed and des
ignated by the Board Of County School
Commissioners TO subs9rve the convenience
and advantage oftheir respective counties /;
IN case II may be necessary to open school
for fraction Of term, il shall close at
the end Of the term, and all accounts shall
be settled at the meeting Of the Board Of
County School Commissioners held at the
close Of the term.
CHAPTER VII.
Teachers
Sec. l. No person shall be employed as
teacher under this law, unless such person
shall hold a certificate OF qualification,
issued by the Examiner Of the county in
which he or she proposes to teach, or from
the Principal Of the State Normal School.
a diploma as graduate of said Normal
School, or certificate from the State Board
Of Education, as hereinbefore provided.
Sec. 2. Teachers shall be appointed by
the Board Of District School Trustees, and
may be removed at any time said Board
may think proper, after thirty days notice
given TO the teacher in writing.
Sec. 8. Teachers shall enter into
registers prepared for tina, purpose, an
accurate account ofthe attendance of pupils,
of text books used, and braneaes taught,
and such other statistics as may be required,
and make due return thereof to the Board
Of County School Commissioners at the end
Of each term ; and no teacher shall be enti.
tied to receive payment for services until
the register properly filled up and com
pleted be so returned their report shall be
filed by the said Board for the purpose of
MAXIM the annual returns to the State
Board of Education.
Sec. 4. The Board Of County School
Commissioners shall examine any charge
| preferred against the moral character Of
any teacher within their county they shall
give the teacher reasonable notice OF the
charge in writing, and al opportunity to
defend himself, and it the charge be sus.
taiued, they shall annu the teachers cert
ficate, and shall give notice thereof to the
! State Board of Education; provided, that an
appeal shall lie to the State Board OF Edu
cation, whose decision shall be final.
| Sec. 5. Any person holding a first grade
teachers certificate or the diploma Of res.
pectabe College, or ola State Normal School,
who has been a teacher for seven years, Of
which FIVE shall have been spent in the State Of
Maryland, may apply 20 the State Board OF
| Education for a lite certificate, which, if
granted, shall exempt him from any furlh err
examinations said certificate may be an.
nulled by said Board at any time on &c.
count OF immoral or unprofessional con.
duct.
Sec. 9. The salaries Of teachers Of each
county shall be fixed by the Board OF
County School Commissioners.
CHAPTER TX.
Pupils
Section /. All whits yoath between the
ages Of six and twanty-one years, shall be
admitted into the public schools of the
State, the stables Of which they may be
able to pursue; provided, that whenever
there are graded schools, the teachers and
Board of District Schools Trustees shall
determine TO which school pupils shall be
| admitted.
See. 2. The Board of District School
Trustees shall have power to suspend and
expel pupils for cause; provided, that an
appeal shall lie 10 the Board of County
School Commissioners, whose decision shall
be final.
Sec. 9. Children living remote from
the school of the district in which they
reside, may attend school in an adjoining
district, with the consent Of the Boards OF
the respective school district.
Sec. 1. Every child, before being ad
mitted to any public school, shall produce
a certificate from regular physician that
he has been properly vaecinated.
CHAPTER X.
Teri Books.
Sec /. School books shall contain moth.
ing of sectarian or partisan character.
Sec. 2. Each board of county school
commissioners shall adopt and purchase the
textbooks for their re spectve counties, bu,
no change shall be made in the text. books
at present in use, or hereafter introduced,
without having examined such as may be
recommended, by the State board Of educa.
ton, whose duty it is hereby made to pre-
sent list of books to the several boards Of
county school commissioners with their
written reasons for such recommendations
Sec. 8. The board Of county school
commissioners shall authorize the delivery
Of books and stationery to the yarious
schools 10 the county, under such rules and
regulations as they may adopt no pupi
shall be required to pay more than ons
dollar quarterly for use of said books ant
stationery. but any pupil, on account o
pecuniary inability, may be exempted from
payment by the board Of district schoo
trustees provided, nevertheless, that pa
rents or pupils may purchase their own book
when they may :hiuk proper.
Sec. 4. The board Of county schoo
commissioners shall keep an account Of tn,
books and static merry delivered to the sew
eral schools in their respective districts
and file their receipis for The same.