274 MARYLAND MANUAL

Maryland Industrial and Agricultural Institute for Colored
Youths receives under Chapter 512, 1902, $1,000 for 1903 and $1,000
for 1904.

Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts,
under Chapter 512, 1902, receives $8,000 for the year 1903 and $8,000 for
the year 1904. It is located on Baltimore street, opposite Harrison,
Baltimore. It is required to receive one free scholar from each county
in the State, and one from each Legislative district in the city of Balti-
more, selections to be made by the School Commissioners in the several
counties and the city of Baltimore. Special scholarships are given
through members of the Baltimore City Council. Apply to George L-.
McCahan, Actuary, Baltimore.

State Normal School, Baltimore, is supported by the State. It is lo-
cated on the corner of Carrollton and Lafayette avenues. Females are
admitted at the age of sixteen, and males at seventeen. Students are
apportioned by the State Board of Education among the several
counties and the city of Baltimore in proportion to their respective
representation in the General Assembly. Apply to E. B. Prettyman,
Principal State Normal School, Baltimore. (Code, Article 77, section
73). The object of the school is to educate teachers for the State
public schools.

State Normal School No. 2, Frostburg, receives under Chapter
512, 1902, $5,000 for maintenance and $5,000 for equipment for 1903, and
$5,000 for maintenance for 1904.

The State Normal School for the Colored. The State appropriates
annually $2,000 for the support of this school, which is to educate col-
ored teachers for the colored public schools of the State.

.St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland. The General Assembly
of the State, by Act of 1872, Chapter 303, and 1879, Chapter 315, has
provided for furnishing board, fuel, lights and washing to the incum-
bent of one State scholarship for each Senatorial district in the State,
to be appointed by the Board of School Commissioners, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senators in their respective districts
after competitive examination.

By the Act of 1894, an additional appropriation to the College pro-
vided for the education of twenty-six State students in addition to the
foregoing, free of expenses for tuition.

The Board of Visitors also grants ten additional scholarships to the
above number, making a sum total of sixty-two scholarships providing
free tuition.

State appropriation for 1903, $5,ooo, with further sum of $15,000 for
buildings and $5,ooo for repairs; $5,ooo for 1904.

These scholarships are awarded as follows:

Twenty-six State Senatorial Scholarships by the Board of School
Commissioners, by and with the advice and consent of the Senators in
their respective districts. Twenty-six State Scholarships are distributed
among the counties of Maryland, in order of priority of application,
either, first, by the appointment of the Board of School Commis-
sioners ; or in the event second, of no candidate being selected by
them, by the Board of Visitors and Governors of the College; or third,
by the President of St. John's College.

The balance of the Tuition Scholarships are given to deserving
students, resident of Maryland, by the Board of Visitors and Governors,

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