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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Normal School or normal department faculty, to be selected

by the State Superintendent and the principal of the school,

and any member of the Board of County School Commission-

ers who may choose to attend.

Maryland

83. The members of the State Board of Education and the

State Teach-
ers' Reading

members of the County School Boards shall encourage the

Circle.

work of the Maryland State Teachers' Reading Circle, which

was organized by the Maryland State Teachers' Association,

and which, acording to Chapter 323, Laws of 1890, is a body

politic and corporate, and provides : That the corporation

created by this Act shall have power to organize, manage and

direct a State Teachers' Reading Circle.

District school,

87. For the further encouragement of education, district

libraries.

libraries ought to be established in each school house district

under the care of the teacher, as librarian ; for this purpose the

sum of ten dollars per annum is ordered to be paid by the

Board of County School Commissioners out of the State

School Fund, to any school house district as library money,

as long as the people of the district raise the same amount

annually ; the books must be selected by the Board of District

School Trustees and teachers from a list to be furnished

by the State Board of Education.

94. The State Superintendent shall furnish the State Board

Approved high

of Education annually a list of approved high schools of

schools.

the State, and the said State Board shall designate the State

Superintendent, a principal of one of the State Normal Schools,

or a member of the State Normal School faculty, to visit annu-

ally and examine such schools and report in writing to the

State Board of Education ; such high schools shall also be

visited at least once in each school term by the County Super-

intendent, who shall report quarterly to the Board of County

School Commissioners the result of his observations.

96. It shall be the duty of the Board of County School

Schools for

Commissioners to establish one or more public schools in each

colored
youths.

election district for all colored youths between six and twenty

years of age, to which admission shall be free, and which

shall be kept open as long as the Board of County School Com-

missioners shall determine ; provided, the colored population

of such district shall warrant said board in establishing said

schools.

98. The Comptroller shall not apportion any separate fund

Maintained
from school

for the colored schools ; but colored schools shall be supported

fund.

and maintained from the general school fund, the apportion-

ment of which shall be hereinafter provided for.