ART. 77] TEST-BOOKS——COUNTY EXAMINER. 1735

1904, art. 77, sec. 67. 1896, ch. 135, sees. 2, 3. 1902. ch. 330, sec. 61 A.
1908, ch. 635, sec. 67.

71. The sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby
appropriated to be paid by the state treasurer upon the warrant of the
comptroller, on the first day of October, 1908, and annually thereafter,
to be expended, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the pur-
chase of text-books, as provided in this article. The whole of said sum
shall be appropriated by the comptroller in the month of September of
each and every year, according to and based upon the total number of
different pupils enrolled, as disclosed by the statistics of the report of
the state board of education for the fiscal year ending July 31, 1907,
and every succeeding odd year, and he shall immediately thereafter
notify the treasurer of the several boards of county school commissioners
of the counties and the city of Baltimore of the amount thus found to be
due to each, and the same shall be paid to the treasurer of the board
of school commissioners of Baltimore city and the several counties upon
the draft of the president and secretary of the several boards of county
school commissioners and the city of Baltimore, aforesaid.

This section referred to in construing section 60—see notes thereto. Wor-
cester County v. School Commissioners, 113 Md. 307.

Chapter 11. County Examiner.

Ibid. sec. 68. 1888, art. 77. sec. 62. 1872, ch. 377.

72. It shall be the duty of the county examiner to examine candi-
dates for the profession of teacher, in the presence of at least one mem-
ber of the board of county school commissioners, or one or more of the
district trustees, and to give to such persons as are found qualified,
under the sanction of the board at its next meeting, a certificate set-
ting forth the branches such persons are competent to teach; but no
certificate shall be granted without satisfactory evidence of the moral
character of the applicant.

See sections 14, 54. 97 and 173.

Ibid. sec. 69. 1888. art. 77, sec. 63. 1870. ch. 311. 1872, ch. 377,

sub-ch. 11. sec. 2. 1874. ch. 463. 1888, ch. 386

1904, ch. 584.

73. The certificate issued by each county superintendent shall be
numbered and registered in a book kept by the board of county school
commissioners, and be delivered to their successors in office, and shall
be denominated first or second grade, as the case may be, and the state
board of education shall keep a book in the same manner as the county
superintendent; certificates of the first grade shall embrace orthography,
reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, United States history, English
grammar, bookkeeping, algebra, natural philosophy, physiology, plane
geometry (four books), general history, national and state constitutions,
theory and practice of teaching, and the laws and the by-laws of the
public school system of Maryland; and those of the second shall embrace
orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, United States
historv, English grammar, history of Maryland, constitutions of United
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