ART. 77] INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS——FARMERS' INSTITUTES. 1755

school and for the employment of a colored school supervisor in such
county where the colored industrial school may be located, shall be
paid as authorized after the first annual appropriation, unless said
colored, industrial school shall have had for the preceding year an
average attendance of thirty pupils and as many as ten colored schools
in the county where such industrial school is located. If in any county
where there are less than ten colored schools, a colored industrial school
shall be established, the state board of education, in its discretion, may
recommend the payment of a part of said appropriation, not to exceed
one-half the amount, or seven hundred and fifty dollars; and when such
recommendation is made to the comptroller, he is authorized and
directed to issue his warrant upon the treasurer for said amount, pro-
vided it does not exceed one-half of the whole appropriation.

1904. art 77. sec. 144. 1902, ch. 418, sec. 118 A. 1910, ch. 386, sec. 144 (p. 231).

146. The superintendent of public education shall supervise and
inspect the work of industrial and agricultural training done in the
several counties of the State under the provisions of this article; collect
all necessary statistics pertaining thereto, and annually, on or before
the 20th day of August of each year, certify to the comptroller the
names of such counties as shall have complied with the provisions of
this article relating to such training; and upon the receipt of said
cetificate from the superintendent of public education, but not other-
wise, the comptroller shall draw his warrant upon the treasurer paya-
ble to the order of the treasurer of the board of county school commis-
sioners of the county so certified as entitled to receive the same, for
the full amount of money so certified to be due to such county under
the provisions of this article; and the superintendent of public educa-
tion shall, on or before the 20th day of August of each year, submit
to the state board of education a full report of all matters pertaining
to industrial and agricultural training in such counties, and attach
thereto a copy of the certificate filed by him with the comptroller.

Ibid. sec. 145. 1902, ch. 418, sec. 118 B. 1910, ch, 386, sec. 145 (p. 231).

147. The several boards of county school commissioners are hereby
authorized to make manual training, domestic science and agriculture
a part of the course of instruction in any of the schools of their respec-
tive counties that they, in their judgment, may think advisable, pro-
vided that said instruction shall conform to the course prescribed by
the state board of education.

Farmers' Institutes.

Ibid. sec. 146. 1896, ch. 102. sec. 1.

148. A department of "Farmers' Institutes" shall be established
for the State of Maryland: the purpose of these institutes shall be to
bring before the farmers of the State such information as will effect-
ually remedy many of the existing evils now prevalent in every depart-