2504 ARTICLE 77.

An. Code, sec. 127. 1908, ch. 635, sec. 122B. 1910, ch. 386, sec. 122 (p. 229).
1916, ch. 506, sec. 127. 1920, ch. 118, sec. 127.

196. It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of Schools, or
an assistant designated by him, to make an annual inspection of all high
schools receiving State aid, and also such other schools as make applica-
tion, through their respective county superintendents, to receive said
State aid. The State Superintendent of Schools shall, on or before the
last day of February of each year, prepare a list of high schools, desig-
nating the group to which each belongs, the amount of said State aid to
which each is entitled, and to whom the same shall be paid. The prepara-
tion of this list shall be based on information obtained through inspec-
tion, supervision, written reports of the principal or county superinten-
dent, or other reliable sources. He shall certify this list to the Comptroller
of the Treasury, on or before the last day of February of each year,
and the Comptroller, of the Treasury shall issue his warrant upon the
Treasury of the State in equal quarterly installments in each and every
year at the time when the general State school fund is now, or may here-
after be, distributed, payable to the orders of the treasurers of the re-
spective County Boards of Education, or the Board of Commissioners
of the Public Schools of Baltimore City, for such sum or sums as they
are entitled to receive under the provisions of this Article, and shown by
the certified list of high schools as aforesaid. Provided, that not more
than one high school shall be granted State aid under the provisions of
this Article in the same village, town or city, unless each additional high
school has an average daily attendance in excess of two hundred pupils;
provided that this provision shall not affect the right of schools on the
approved list at the date of the passage of this Act to receive State aid;
provided further that in case two high schools for white pupils are in
the same city of any county of the State, neither shall receive more than
two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500). Should any error in the
amount of State aid for any high school be discovered after the original
list is certified the State Superintendent of Schools shall correct his re-
port by certifying the proper changes to the Comptroller. In the event
that the amount due all high schools eligible for State aid exceeds the
amount appropriated therefor, then the amount appropriated may be
pro rated among such high schools.
See notes to secs. 90 and 192.

An. Code, sec. 128. 1910, ch. 386, sec. 123 (p. 230). 1916, ch. 506, sec. 128.
1920, ch. 118, sec. 128. 1922, ch. 382, sec. 128.

197. Each county high school in the first group shall receive State
aid on the basis of the cost of instruction, and in the following manner:
The sum of nine hundred dollars ($900) on account of the principal,
and the sum of six hundred dollars ($600) on account of each of the
first two assistants employed for full-time academic high school work;
the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars ($450) on account of each of
the first two full-time special teachers; the sum of four hundred and fifty
dollars ($450) on account of the next full-time assistant teacher employed