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Excerpt from Seventy-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of School Commissioners: To the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1907 The Educational Chapter of the Baltimore City Charter, adopted in the year 1898, provides for a Board of School Com missioners, a Superintendent of Public Instruction, and one or more Assistants, a Supervisor of School Buildings, and School Visitors, one or more for each school. It provides for a separation of educational from business affairs and lays down the broad principles upon which both are to be conducted. The Board of School Commissioners consists of nine mem bers appointed by the Mavor for terms of six years, the terms of three of them expiring every two years. T hey serve with out pay. T hey are chosen by the 'mayor from among those he deems most capable of promoting the interests of public education, by reason of their intelligence, character, education and business habits. In their appointment, ecclesiastical and party ties are not regarded and the schools are thus entirely removed from the field of political and religious differences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.