EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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School, located in the City of Baltimore; the annual sum of

seven thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the support

of State Normal School No. 2, located at Frostburg, and the

annual sum of forty-five hundred dollars is hereby appro-

priated for the support of the normal department of Washing-

ton College, located at Chestertown — these appropriations to

be paid in quarterly instalments by the Treasurer, on the

warrant of the Comptroller, to the State Board of Education,

and to be applied to the payment of teachers' salaries, clerical

assistance, the purchase of school apparatus, text-books, fuel,

stationery, light and other necessary expenses in maintaining

such schools and normal departments; a further sum of one

Further stun
for repairs.

thousand dollars annually for repairs is hereby appropriated

for the Maryland State Normal School of Baltimore.

77. All donations or bequests of money or personal prop-

Donations or

erty, and all grants or devises of lands for the benefit of any

bequests.

State Normal School or normal department shall be held in

trust by the State Board of Education.

78. The State Board of Education shall, on or before the

first day of January, in each and every year, make a report .

Annual report

to the Governor of the condition of the schools of the State ;

and sugges-

a statement of the apportionment of money to the counties and

tions.

the City of Baltimore, for the support of schools ; an abstract

of the reports received from the Board of County School

Commissioners, together with such suggestions for the im-

provement of schools and the advancement of public education

as the State Board of Education shall deem expedient.

79. The Governor shall cause three thousand copies of said

Printing of

report, five hundred to be bound in cloth, to be printed and

report.

distributed every year.

80. A Teachers' Institute, to continue five days, shall be held

Teachers' In-

in each county once a year, and in the absence of the State

stitutes.

Superintendent, the County Superintendent shall preside.

81. The State Superintendent of Public Education shall fix

a time of the meeting of the institute, and it shall be the duty

Time of

of the County Superintendent to notify each teacher of the

meeting.

time and place of meeting, and when so notified, each teacher

in actual employment is required to attend; the president of

the School Board shall select the place for the institute to

meet.

82. These institutes, being designed as temporary normal

schools, shall be attended by the State Superintendent, when

Attendance at
institutes.

possible to do so, and by one or more instructors of a State