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County Superintendent shall have authority to designate the teachers who
are required to attend summer school under the provisions of this Section.

An. Code, sec. 93. 1904, sec. 88. 1888, sec. 81. 1872, ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584.

161. The state superintendent of public education shall fix a time of the
meeting of the institute, and it shall be the duty of the county superinten-
dent to notify each teacher of the time and place of meeting, and when so
notified, each teacher in actual employment is required to attend; the presi-
dent of the school board shall select the place for the institute to meet.

An. Code, sec. 94. 1904, sec. 89. 1888, sec. 82. 1872, ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584.

162. These institutes, being designed as temporary normal schools,
shall be attended by the state superintendent, when possible to do so, and
by one or more instructors of a state 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 commissioners who
may choose to attend.

An. Code, sec. 95. 1904, sec. 90. 1888, sec. 83. 1872, ch. 377. 1890, ch. 323. 1904, ch. 584.

163. The members of the state board of education and the members of
the county school boards shall encourage the work of the Maryland state
teachers' reading circle, which was organized by the Maryland state
teachers' association, and which is a body politic and corporate, with power
to organize, manage and direct a state teachers' reading circle.

Chapter 14. Teachers' Associations.

An. Code, sec. 96. 1904, sec. 91. 1888, sec. 84. 1872, ch. 377. 1890, ch. 323.

164. District, county and state teachers' associations are recommended
as important means of elevating the standard of public education by mutual
conference, interchange of views and suggestions as to systems of teaching
and discipline.

An. Code, sec. 97. 1904, sec. 92. 1888, sec. 85. 1872, ch. 377.

165. It shall be the care of the county examiner to aid in the organi-
zation of these associations, to encourage attendance, to secure competent
lecturers, and to impart such information as will encourage teachers in
their work, and fit them for the performance of their duties.

An. Code, sec. 98. 1904, sec. 93. 1888, sec. 86. 1872, ch. 377.

166. These associations may occupy any of the school houses.

Chapter 15. Public Libraries.

An. Code, sec. 99. 1904, sec. 94. 1888, sec. 87. 1872, ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584.

167. For the further encouragement of education, district 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