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to issue his warrant, each year, upon the Treasurer of the State for the
sum of fifteen hundred dollars, payable to the order of the treasurer of the
county board of education that has inaugurated such a colored industrial
school, in equal quarterly instalments, at the time when the general State
school fund is distributed, as provided for in this Article. One-half of
said appropriation shall be used for the support of one colored industrial
school in the county and one-half shall be used by the county board of
education of the county where said industrial school is located for the
salary of a capable and trained colored supervisor of colored schools, who
shall be required to visit, under the direction of the county superinten-
dent, all the colored schools of the county as often as the county superin-
tendent may direct, and shall cause instruction of an industrial character
to be made a daily part of the work of every colored school. The County
Board of Education in the county where such school is located shall pay
the traveling expenses of the supervisor not less than the sum of one
hundred and fifty dollars ($150) annually, and may pay any additional
amount for such purpose as it may deem necessary. The management and
control of such an industrial school and the employment of a supervisor
shall, subject to the provisions of this Article, be in the hands of the county
board of education of the county where such school is located.

An. Code, sec. 145. 1904, sec. 143. 1898, ch. 273, sec. 9. 1910, ch. 210, sec. 143 (p. 233).

1916, ch. 506, sec. 145.

214. No appropriation for the full amount of fifteen hundred dollars,
authorized by the preceding section for the support of one central colored
industrial 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 superintendent of schools, in his 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 of the State for said amount, pay-
able to the order of the treasurer of the county board of education.

Farmers' Institutes.

An. Code, sec. 148. 1904, sec. 146. 1896, ch. 102, sec. 1.

215. 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 effectually remedy
many of the existing evils now prevalent in every department of agri-
culture as now pursued in Maryland; and at said institutes men compe-
tent to instruct shall be present, and such topics shall be discussed as
pertain to the principal agricultural interests of the several sections.