admitted at the age of sixteen, and males at seventeen. Students aie
apportioned by the State Board of Education among the several counties
and the city of Baltimore in proportion to their respective representa-
tion 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.

Slate Normal School for Colored Pupils, Baltimore. The State
appropriates (Chapter 745, 1900) $2,000 annually for the support of the
school, which is to educate colored teachers for the colored public
schools of the State. Apply to Joseph M. Gushing, President, or
Clemens Lamping, Secretary.

St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland. The General Assembly of
the State, by Act of 1872, chapter 303, and 1879, chapter 315, has pro-
vided for furnishing board, fuel, lights and washing to the incumbent
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-
vides 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 1900, $14,000: for 1901, $14,000.
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 Commissioners;
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 Presi-
dent 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,
at a meeting which shall be held after the opening of the College
session, and after due notice of vacancies has been advertised by them
in the daily journals.

There are also (15) Fifteen Foundation Scholarships providing free
tuition, awarded by the Board of Visitors and Governors, to deserving
youth, resident in the city of Annapolis, Md.

Washington College, at Chestertown, receives $2,500 for the year
1901; $2,500 for the year 1902. (Chapter 620, 1900).

It is required to furnish a free scholarship in every Senatorial district
in the State. Apply to Dr. Chas. W. Reid, Principal. Normal Depart-
ment, dealed by Act of 1896, gives one free scholarship to each county
on the Eastern Shore. The scholarships are appointed through the
Boards of School Commissioners in the several counties.

Western Mary/and College, at Westminster, receives under chapters
239 of 1878, 279 of 1890, 106 of 1898, and 620 of 1900 $14ooo for 1900
and $14,000 for 1901.

It is requned to furnish two free scholarships, one to a male and one.
to a female, to each of the Senatorial districts of the State, said scholar-