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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

their intention to engage in the profession of
teaching within the State, and in case any students
shall fail to fulfil the condition upon which they

Failing to ful-
fil conditions
upon which
admitted.

were admitted, they shall forfeit and pay thirty
dollars for each session they have attended the
Normal School, to be collected as other debts are
collected, and to be applied for the benefit of the
Normal School. If there be not applicants suffi-
cient from any county or the city, then the Prin-
cipal of the Normal School may fill all vacancies,
by selecting applicants possessing the requisite
qualifications, from any other portion of the State,
in the proportion aforesaid.

Additional
students.

Sec. 6. In addition to the students admitted
from the counties and the city of Baltimore, who
shall enjoy all the privileges of the school, and be
furnished with the use of the text books free of
charge, there may be admitted, in the proportion
of one to two of the scholars selected by the
county and city Boards, other persons having the
requisite qualifications, who shall pay the sum of
twenty-five dollars per session, and purchase their
own text books, and be subject in every respect to
the same rules and regulations as the other stu-
dents ; provided, that the number of students
sent by the State shall not exceed two hundred,
and as long as this number is not reached by the
State, or after it shall have been reached by the
State, all remaining vacancies may be filled by
pay scholars to the full capacity of the school.

Prescribe stu-

dies

Sec. 7. The Board of Trustees of the State
Normal School shall prescribe the course of study,
and supervise the school in every particular not
provided for in this law ; they shall make pro-
vision for model and experimental Primary and
Grammar Schools under qualified teachers, in
which the student of the Normal School shall have
opportunity to practice the modes of instruction
and discipline inculcated in. the Normal School.
The salary of the teachers of the model and ex-
perimental schools shall be paid in part from the
tuition fees derived from the pupils of said model
schools.

Salaried.

Sec. 8. The annual sum of eight thousand dol-
lars is hereby appropriated for the support of the
Normal School, to be paid in quarterly instalments