the county to accept the same, if in the judgment of said Board there is any necessity therefor, and thereafter to provide for the maintenance of such number of separate colored industrial schools as in their judgment may be needed, and the salaries of such teachers as may be required for the purpose shall be paid out of the general school fund and the State aid hereinafter provided.

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SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That whenever any such separate colored industrial school or schools opened in any county, the President and the Secretary of the Board of County School Commissioners of said county shall report the fact to the Secretary of the State Board of Education, and the State Board of Education shall without delay proceed to appoint a proper person well qualified for such service, to visit the said school or schools and give a certificate of approval of its condition and the plan upon which it is conducted, and thereafter the President and Secretary of said Board shall report to the Comptroller of this State the condition of said schools, the number of instructors, and the number of pupils enrolled during school year last ended, on or before the twentieth day of August in each year.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the Comptroller of the Treasury, upon receiving the certificate of approval concerning the county industrial school or schools as aforesaid, according to the sixth section of this Act, is hereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant upon the Treasurer of the State for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, payable to the order of the Treasurer of the Board of County School Commissioners of the county, upon the filing of the certificate of approval aforesaid, out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, on the first day of October in each year, for the support of said colored industrial school or schools, and thereafter the said industrial school or schools shall be under the management and control of the said Board of County School Commissioners.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That no entire appropriation for the benefit of any Manual Training School, provided for under this Act, shall be paid as authorized, after the first annual appropriation, unless said

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school shall have an average daily attendance of thirty scholars for the preceding year; and in case said attendance shall fall short of said number, then there shall only be paid towards the maintenance of said school at the rate of fifty ($50.00) dollars for each scholar for its daily average annual attendance, to be determined by the report herein before required to be made to the Comptroller.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That no appropriation for the benefit of the Colored Industrial Schools of any county, previded for under this Act, shall be paid, after the first annual appropriation, unless the average daily attendance at such school or schools, shall have been, for the preceding year, at least thirty scholars; and in case said attendance shall fall short of said number, then there shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Board of County School Commissioners maintaining said school or schools, only at the rate of fifty ($50.00) dollars a scholar, for the daily average attendance at the same, to be determined by the report hereinbefore required to be made to the Comptroller.

Miscellaneous.

1872 ch. 377.

107. Schools on or near the dividing line of two Free to each counties shall be free to the children of each county; and the Board of County School Commissioners of the respective counties shall have power to provide jointly for the maintenance of said schools.

108. Real and personal estate granted, conveyed, devised or bequeathed for the use of any particular Held in trust. County or school district, shall be held in trust by the Board of County School Commissioners for the benefit of such county or school district, and such grants and bequests shall be exempt from all State and county

taxes.

Chapter 41, Laws of 1894, provides: SECTION 120. That the County Commissioners of each county in this State, in their capacity of corporations, shall be and are hereby invested with full power to receive in trust, and to hold and control, for the purpose of such trusts, all money or other property of whatsover description which may hereafter be bestowed upon such corporations by will, deed or in any other form of

gift or conveyance, in trust for purpose of education, and to provide, by resolution or otherwise, for the execution of said trusts in the mode prescribed by the will, deed or other instrument creating the same.

SEC. 121. That the State's Attorneys for the several counties be and they hereby are charged with the duty of seeing that such trusts are carried into effect in their respective counties; and in case of any neglect on the part of the County Commissioners, it shall be the duty of the State's Attorney in the county in which such neglect occurs to cause proper proceedings to be instituted in the Circuit Court for said county to compel the execution of the said trust.

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109. Moneys invested in trust for the benefit of the Exempt from Public Schools of any county or city, shall be exempt from State, county or local tax.

FREE SCHOLARSHIPS.

ST. MARY'S FEMALE SEMINARY, ST. MARY'S CITY,
ST. MARY'S COUNTY.

1868, ch. 193; 1896, ch. 61; 1898, ch. 379.

One scholar shall be taken from each of the counties and each of the three legislative districts of Baltimore city, and shall be selected by the examiner and Boards of County School Commissioners of the respective counties, and the Board of Commissioners of Public Schools in Baltimore city, for the three legislative districts of said city respectively, without recourse to a competitive examination, so that the most worthy and charitable may be selected; each pupil as selected to remain for the space of three years, if not dismissed by the Trustees.

ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, ANNAPOLIS.

1878, ch. 315.

One scholar from each senatorial district of the State shall be educated free of charge for tuition, board, fuel, lights and washing, and shall be appointed by the Board of School Commissioners of the several counties and City of Baltimore, by and with the advice and consent of the senator in their respective counties and senatorial districts, after a competitive examination of the candidates for such appointments, who shall produce before the said commissioners satisfactory evidence of their moral character, and of their inability or the inability of their parents or guardians to pay the regular college charges; provided, that no one of the said appointments shall be held by the same student for more than four years, unless the time of holding such appointment be extended by the faculty of the college, and that each student receiving such appointment shall pledge himself upon entering the college that he will continue a student thereof for the full term of four years, unless prevented by unavoidable necessity, and that he will teach school within the State for not less than two years, immediately after leaving college, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable.

WESTERN MARYLAND COLLEGE, WESTMINSTER.

1878, ch. 239; 1898, ch. 106.

One male student from each senatorial district of the State shall be educated free of charge for tuition, board, fuel, lights,

and washing, and shall be appointed by the School Commissioners in said senatorial district, by and with the advice and onsent of the senator in their respective senatorial districts, after a competitive examination of the candidates; provided, that the said appointment shall not be held by the same student for more than four years, and that each student receivingsuch appointment shall give his bond to the State of Maryland for such amount with such security as may be approved of by the president of said college, that he will teach school within this State for not less than two years after leaving college.

1898, ch. 106.

One female student from each senatorial district of this State shall be educated free of charge for board and tuition, and shall be appointed by the School Commissioners in said senatorial district, by and with the advice and consent of the senator in their respective senatorial districts, after a competitive examination of the candidates; provided, that the said appointment shall not be held by the same student for more than four years, and that each student receiving such appointment shall give bond to the State of Maryland for such amount with such security as may be approved by the president of said college, that she will teach school within the State for not less than two years after leaving college.

MARYLAND INSTITUTE, BALTIMORE CITY.

One free scholar shall be received from each county of the State and one from each legislative district of Baltimore city, to be selected by the School Commissioners of the counties and Baltimore city respectively.

WASHINGTON COLLEGE.

1896, ch. 63.

The Visitors and Governors of Washington College, in the State of Maryland, shall have full power and authority to establish in said college or seminary of learning a department of pedagogy for the instruction and practice of teachers in the science of education, the art of teaching and the mode of governing schools, to which department students of both sexes shall be admitted.

The Visitors and Governors of Washington College may prescribe such a course of instruction, to be completed in not