OF MARYLAND. CHAPTER 428. AN ACT to add certain additional sections to Article 77 of the Code of the Public General Laws, to come in after Section seventeen, to be know as Sections 17A, 17B and 17C, and to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section seventy-one of said article. 53 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That certain additional sections be and New sections. they are hereby added to Article 77 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Public Education," providing for a Superintendent of Public Education, and determining his duties, to come in after Section seventeen, and be known as Sections 17A, Repeal and 17B and 17C, respectively, and to repeal and re-enact re-enactment with amendments, Section seventy-one of said article so as to read as follows: 17A. That the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a competent person as Superintendent of Public Education for the State of Maryland, who shall serve for a term of four years, beginning on the first Monday in May next ensuing his appointment, and until his successor has been appointed and qualified according to law; provided that the Governor at any time may remove such person from office for misconduct or inefficiency, upon submitting his reasons for such removal in writing to such person, and provided further, that such removal be approved and ratified by two-thirds of the members of the State Board of Education. Appointment tendent of of Superin Public Education. Term. Removal. Salary. Clerk 17B. That said Superintendent of Public Education shall receive a salary from said appropriation for public schools, the amount of which salary shall be fixed by the Board of Education, provided it shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars per annum, in addition to an allowance of five hundred dollars per annum for travelling expenses; and the said Superintendent shall further be provided with a clerk, who shall also act as clerk to the Board of Education, and who shall be paid a reasonable salary, to be fixed by Clerk's salary. said board, out of its allowance for contingent or ent's office. necessary expenses; provided, further, that the office of said Board in the State Normal School shall also be the office of said Superintendent. Superintend erintendent. 17C. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Duties of Sup- Public Education to inform himself and the Board of Education as to the condition of the public schools throughout the State; to diffuse information as to the best methods of instruction; to receive and present to the Board of Education the reports of the various Boards of County School Commissioners; to examine said county boards' statements of expenditure of school funds, and submit his judgment on the same to the Board of Education; to remove, by and with the consent of two-thirds of the Board of Education, any county examiner who shall be guilty of misconduct or inefficiency, except that no examiner shall be so displaced without the privilege of being heard in his own defense before said Board of Education, and in every way to conserve the interest and promote the efficiency of the public schools of this State. It shall also be the duty of the said Superintendent of Public Education, to hold a teachers' institute in each county of the State for five days in each year. Faculty of 71. The Faculty of the State Normal School shall State Normal consist of the principal and as many teachers as shall be determined by the State Board of Education, who shall be appointed by said Board, and have such salaries and perform such duties as said Board may direct. |