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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Principal of the State Normal School through the
school journal selected by the said Principal for the
school house library.

CHAPTER IV.
Teachers' Associations.

District
Associations.

SECTION 1. District, County and State Teachers'
Associations are recommended as an important
means of elevating the standard of public educa-
tion by mutual conference, interchange of views,
and suggestions as to systems of teaching and
discipline.

County Ex-
aminer to en-
courage.

Sec. 2. It shall be the care of the County Ex-
aminer to aid in the organization of these associa-
tions, to encourage attendance, to secure compe-
tent lecturers, and to impart such information as
will encourage teachers in their work and fit them
for the performance of their duties.

Sec. 3. These associations may occupy any of the
school houses.

CHAPTER V.

Teachers' Institutes.

Teachers'
Institutes.

SECTION 1. A Teachers' Institute, to continue
five days, may be held during vacation in each
county once a year, and the County Examiner
shall be present and shall give normal instruction
to the teachers each day.

Principal fix
meetings.

Sec. 2. The Principal of the State Normal
School shall fix the time of the meeting of the In-
stitute, and it shall be the duty of the County Ex-
aminer to notify each teacher of the time and place
of meeting.

Principal to
preside.

Sec. 3. These Institutes being designed as tem-
porary normal schools, shall be presided over by
the Principal of the State Normal School, if he
can be present, assisted by the County Examiner
and any member of the Board of County School
Commissioners who may choose to attend.

Place of
meeting.

Sec. 4. The President of the Board of County
School Commissioners shall select the place of
meeting.