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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

qualifications, namely, scholarship equal to graduation from

approved high schools for the normal course, and scholarship

equal to completion satisfactorily of the seventh year grade

Applicant for

of our public school curriculum for the academic course ;

scholarships.

applicants for scholarships must file their application for schol-

arship, and also with the State Board of Education, a written

declaration that their object in obtaining admission is to

qualify themselves as public school teachers, and that it is

their intention to engage in the profession in this State ; when-

ever it is possible to do so, the Board of County School Com-

missioners and the Board of School Commissioners of Balti-

more City shall appoint an alternate for each person who may

receive a scholarship, and if for any reason such person who

was awarded the scholarship does not use or accept the same,

or for any other reason fails to become a student of the Normal

School or normal department, then the person appointed as

alternate shall be entitled to the privileges of such scholarship.

If there be not applicants sufficient from any county or the

To fill all va-
cancies.

City of Baltimore, then the State Board of Education may fill

all vacancies by selecting applicants possessing the requisite

qualifications from any portion of the State, in the propor-

tion aforesaid.

Admission of

74. In addition to the students admitted from the coun-

pay students.

ties and the City of Baltimore, who shall enjoy the privileges

of the school and be furnished with the use of the text-books

free of charge, there may be admitted, in the discretion of

the State Board of Education, to the full capacity of the State

Normal Schools, or normal departments, such other persons

as may possess the requisite qualifications, who shall pay the

sum of twenty-five dollars per session and be subject to the

same rules and regulations as the other students.

75. The State Board of Education shall prescribe the course

Duties of State

of study for the State Normal Schools and normal departments

Board.

receiving State aid, which shall be uniform as far as is prac-

ticable, and supervise such schools and departments in every

particular not provided for in this Article; they shall make

arrangements for practice teaching, and may organize and

maintain model and experimental schools as a part of the Nor-

mal School, or normal department, when deemed best, in which

students of the normal course shall have opportunity to teach

and practice the modes of instruction and discipline inculcated

in the Normal Schools, or normal departments.

76. The annual sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby

State appropri-
ations.

'appropriated for the support of the Maryland State Normal