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said cause had been made, upon which additional statements being made and filed, the cause shall be removed, notwithstanding the issues had been made up.

75. When any suit or action, issues, petitions, presentment or indictments shall be removed according to the provisions of the preceding section, it shall and may be lawful for the party at whose instance the said suit or action, issues or petition, presentment or indictment was not removed, if he, she or they shall think that justice cannot be done him, her or them in said court to which said suit or action, issues or petition, presentment or indictment has been removed, to file an affidavit as prescribed by the preceding section in said court to which said removal is ordered, suggesting that he, she or they cannot have justice in such court, whereupon the said court shall remove the said cause, suit or action, issues or petition, presentment or indictment, to such other court (and of a different circuit if the party applying shall so elect) having jurisdiction in such cases as the said court shall think will best tend to justice between the parties to the said suit or action, issues or petition, presentment or indictment.

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judges.

76. It shall be in the power and discretion of the Power of judge or judges, should he or they think it proper, to cause a special panel of forty-eight jurors to be selected Special panel. by the sheriff from the community at large to try any cause or causes removed under the preceding sections of this act, and the court shall direct the clerk thereof to divide by ballot said number of jurors into two panels of petit jurors, and may take such order for regulating the attendance of said panels as the said court shall see fit, and the said court may direct talesmen to be summoned in said cause or causes whenever necessary.

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77. In all criminal cases removed as aforesaid, where Time of remothe party or parties to be tried therein are detained in cases. jail, the party or parties so detained shall not be removed until the first day of the session of the court to which said case shall be removed.

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78. The judge or judges of any of the said circuit Compensation courts to which any cause or causes may be removed ney.

under the preceding sections, shall allow such compensation, not exceeding the sum of forty dollars in any one case, to the state's attorney, for his services in appearing to or trying said cause or causes, as the said judge or judges may deem just and proper, to be borne and paid by the county, from which said cause or causes may be removed, or by the city of Baltimore as the case. may be.

In force and approved March 28, 1868.

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1868, c. 440 repeals 1865, c. 31, s. 1 [Sup. 234] and amends and re-enacts the same

1868, c. 440.

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be published.

Newspapers.

as follows:

SEC. 1. Every public general law which is made to general laws to take effect before the first day of June next after the session at which it may be passed, shall immediately after its passage be published, at the expense of the state, daily for one week in two daily newspapers of the city of Baltimore, one of which shall be printed in the German language, and one newspaper in each county having the largest circulation, if there be a newspaper published in said county.

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lishers.

Passed and approved March 30, 1868.

1868, c. 67 amends 1865, c. 31 [Sup. 235] by adding thereto the following: 1868, c. 67. 5. The treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptrolPayment to newspaper pub- ler, shall pay to the publishers of the newspapers in which the public general laws are printed in conformity with the first section of this article, the compensation to which they may respectively be entitled for printing said general laws, within six months from the time of publication.

In force and approved February 26, 1868.

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County School Commissioners.

1. How schools designated: sessions of county board: property, &c., vested in county board: proviso.

2. Powers of county board: county examiner.

3. Treasurer: bond: his duties.

4. State school fund: tax by county commissioners: county high school, &c.

5. Voters of county to decide: proviso: notice: ballots: duties of judges of election, of clerk of court: county commissioners.

6. Division of county into school districts: proviso: boundaries: notice: revision or alteration.

7. Character of teachers: power of county board.

8. Reports of teachers.

9. How pupils distributed: proviso.

10. Financial statements to be published..

CHAPTER IV.

The Board of School House District Trustees.

1. Electing trustees, &c.: notice.

2. Powers of school district board: teachers.

3. Plan of school houses.

4. Out-buildings.

5. How school houses to be used.

6. New districts: proviso.

CHAPTER V.

School House Sites.

1. District board to elect sites.

2. Gift, &c., of sites: title.

3. Condemnation for sites: writ, ad quod damnum: inquisition confirmed, &c.

4. Cost of sites.

CHAPTER VI. Schools.

1. How long schools kept open: free to whites.

2. What taught.

3. Additional teachers.

4. Public examination.

5. Hours.

6. Disturbing school: penalty.

7. School year: proviso: vacation and hollidays: accounts.

CHAPTER VII.

1. Certificate of teacher.

2. Appointment and removal of teachers. 3. Returns of teachers: payment: reports to be filed.

4. Teachers' salaries.

CHAPTER VIII.
Pupils.

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1868, c. 407 entitled an act to add a new article to the Code of Public General Laws to be entitled Public Education, providing a general system of free public schools for the state of Maryland, and to repeal all laws inconsistent therewith, enacts the following and repeals all the sections of the several articles of the Code of Public General and Local Laws relating to schools, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, and all acts of assembly passed since the adoption of said volumes of the Code, relating to schools, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, and provides that there shall be throughout the state of Maryland a general system of free public schools, according to the provisions of this act. It further provides that this act shall be added to the Code of Public General Laws under the title, Public Education, and repeals all existing laws inconsistent herewith [Sup. 191:]

Board of county school commissioners.

TITLE I.-SUPERVISION.

CHAPTER I.

SEC. 1. Educational matters affecting a county shall be under the control of a board of county school commissioners, one of whom shall be chosen as the presi

dent of said board, and a person not a member of said board shall he elected to serve as secretary and treasurer. 2. And school district boards composed of three persons, one of whom shall be the school commissioner of the election district in which the school house is situate.

CHAPTER II.

How Officers are Designated and Removed.

COUNTY BOards.

School district boards.

how composed

SEC. 1. The board of county school commissioners County boards, shall be composed of one commissioner for each elec- and elected. tion district, to be elected by the people thereof at each general election for members of the general assembly; to serve for two years from the first day of January next succeeding said election, and until their successors shall qualify and for the time intervening from the passage of this article until the first of January next succeeding the next general election, said school commissioners shall be appointed by the county commissioners of the respective counties.

2. The two school district trustees shall be elected Trustees. by the legal voters of the school house district, at such time and in such manner as hereinafter set forth.

CHAPTER III.

County School Commissioners.

designated.

county board.

SEC. 1. The schools under the charge of the boards How schools of county school commissioners for each county, shall respectively be designated and constitute school districts No. 1, No. 2, &c., of the respective election districts of such county. The county board shall hold Sessions of four sessions a year; each session shall continue not longer than two days, and each commtssioner shall receive three dollars per day for each day of his attendance, and shall be paid by the school commissioners out of the school fund. All the property, estate, effects, Property, &c., money, funds, claims and state donations now vested county board by law in the school authorities of any county for the use and benefit of public, primary, free or high schools,

vested in

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