ART. 77] SCHOLARSHIPS. 1765

college in the State of Maryland shall deem necessary for carrying into
effect the true intent and meaning of this act—the education of compe-
tent teachers for the State of Maryland.

1904, art. 77, sec. 181. 1896, ch. 63.

185. The visitors and governors of Washington college may, in their
discretion and in accordance with the provisions of sections 11 and 12
of the original act of incorporation, of which this act is intended to be
a supplement, authorize the issuing to the graduates of this department
who may have satisfactorily completed the prescribed course and who
have attained the age which now is or may be hereafter prescribed for
teachers under the public school law of Maryland, a certificate authoriz-
ing the said graduate to teach for two years from the date thereof in
any of the public schools of the State established under the authority of
the public school law of Maryland, and at the expiration of two years
upon the recommendation of any public school examiner under whose
supervision the graduate may have taught for eight months to grant
a permanent diploma authorizing the recipient to teach in the public
schools of the State, the said diploma to be subject to revocation in the
discretion of the said visitors and governors of Washington college.

Ibid. sec. 182. 1896, ch. 188.

186. The visitors and governors of this college shall supply free
tuition and books in the normal department to one indigent female stu-
dent from each county of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and such
student shall present a certificate of appointment from the board of
county school commissioners of the county from which she comes, and
that she is a graduate of a public school and that she enters the college
for the purpose of qualifying herself for a teacher in the public schools,
and that she intends to engage in teaching within this State; and she
shall sign an agreement to pay said college the sum of twenty-five dollars
for each session she attends the normal department of said college should
she fail to teach in the public schools of this State after having received
a normal school education at said college.

Ibid. sec. 183. 1896, ch. 188.

187. Any female graduate of any public school on the Eastern Shore
of Maryland shall have the privilege of competing for appointment to
said scholarship by filing her written application to the board of county
school commissioners for such appointment, together with a certificate
that she is a graduate of a public school of that county, and that she
desires such scholarship for the purpose of qualifying herself for a
teacher in the public schools, and her intention to engage in the profes-
sion of teaching within this State; and in case any such scholar should,
after having received such normal school education, fail to fulfill the
conditions upon which she was admitted, she shall forfeit and pay the
sum of twentv-five dollars for each session she attended the normal