Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-02-10
PUBLIC EDUCATION BILL.
Senator Bells introduces Bill Of Local
Interest to Schools How Vacan
eies Shall be Filled IN School
Boards.

time and referred 70 the Committee
on Education:
A bill, entitled an act to repeal Sec
tion 6 Of Article "a of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title
Public Education, subtitle For
nation Board, and also Section %
of Article n, title Public Educa-
tion, 4" subtitle County School Com
missioners. and to re-enact with
amendments the aforesaid Sections
and % of Article II, and to repeal all
other acts or parts Of acts inconsistent
with the provisions of this act
Section l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly Of Maryland. That
Section of Article "a of the Code
of Public General Laws of Maryland,
title Public Education" subtitle
Formation of Boards, " and also
Section % of Article az. title Public
Education. subtitle" County School
-Goiz44ni be, and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments so as severally and re.
spectively. to be and read as follows,
TO wit:
Section 6. From and after the first
Monday in May, 1912, the Boards
of County School Commissioners in
and for Baltimore, Carol, Freder-
lex, Dorchester, Washington aud
Montgomery counties, respectively,
| shall consist of six members, three
of whom shall be members of the
minority party of the leading two po-
litical parties in Maryland, and in all
other counties of the State the Boards
of County School Commissioners shall
consist of four members. two of
whom shall be members of the minor
ity party of the leading two political
| parties of Maryland All county
school commissioners heretofore APP
| pointed under this section, as hereto
fore existing and as amended and en-
acted by Chapter 355 of the acts of
/ 1906, shall serve out the full terms
for which they were respectively ap-
| pointed and designatd. The Cover
| nor by and with the advice and CON
| sent of the Senate in the manner here
| matter required. shall as soon as may
| be feasible consistently with the pro-
| visions thereof. appoint two school
| commissioners as members of the
| Boards Of County School Commits
sioners for the counties of Baltimore.
| Carroll. Frederick, Dorchester, Wash
ington and Montgomery and all the
| other counties respectively, of this
| State; one of the two commissioners to
/ be appointed upon each of said boards,
| shall be a member of the political
parry which at the last preceding cleo
| tion for Governor cast next to the
| highest number of votes in the State.
| The term of Office Of each of said
| commissioners, to be appointed upon
| said boards in all the counties of the
! State, shall begin upon the expira-
| tim of the term of office of those
members of the present Boards of
County School Commissioners whose
/ terms shall expire upon the first
| Monday in May, 1912, or at the end
| of the day next prec eding said first
Monday in May, 1912, and shall be
and continue for six years from and
after the said first Monday in May,
and until their successors shall be
| appointed and qualify according to
| law.
Just before appointing said two
/ members of each of said boards. as
| aforesaid, the Governor shall request
| the State Central Committee repre-
| senting each of the leading two polit-
! zeal parties of the State in each county
| to designate or submit at least four
| eligible candidates for the said posi-
! tiOns of members of said boards in
their respective counties, and the
/ Governor shall appoint one of the per-
sons so designated and submitted by
| each of said State Central Commit
| tees for any particular county, I'M
! less in his judgment all of said per-
sons shall be unfit or incompetent
for said position, in which case he
shall file a written statement to
that effect with the Secretary of
State, setting forth such fact and the
grounds therefor, and thereupon he
shall call upon said committee or com
mittees for the county or counties,
respectively as the case may be. for
another list of five names, and from
said list and the original list he shall
make the appointment. In the same
maner, the Governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate. and
upon the designation and submission
by the respective State Central Com
mittees of said leading two political
parties in each county respectively of
the names of eligible candidates for
the position of County School Com
mssioners of said several counties,
shall hereafter during the session of
the Senate and within the first fiftv
days thereof, and before the first
Monday in May of the respective
years in which the terms of office of
members Of said boards shall expire.
appoint the members of said Board of
County School Commissioners to sue
coed the two members to be appoint
ed upon each of said boards, as above
provided for, upon the expiration of
their terms, and to succeed the other
members of each of said boards upon
the expiration Of their terms, respec-
lively, three of the members of the
Board of County School Commission
ers for the counties of Baltimore,
Carroll. Frederick, Dorchester, Wash |
ingtou and Montgomery, and two of l
the members of the Board of County /
School Commissioners for each of the |
other counties of the State to be |
selected and appointed in the manner
aforesaid from the political party /
which at tae last preceding election |
FOR Governor cast next to the high