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effect the true intent and meaning of this act—the education of compe-
tent teachers for the State of Maryland.

An. Code, sec. 185. 1904, sec. 181. 1896, ch. 63.

248. 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 authorizing 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 recommen-
dation of any public school examiner under whose supervision the gradu-
ate may have taught for eight months to grant a permanent diploma author-
izing 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 A'isitors
and governors of Washington college.

An. Code, sec. 186. 1904, sec. 182. 1896, ch. 188.

249. The visitors and governors of this college shall supply free tui-
tion and books in the normal department to one indigent female student
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 ses-
sion 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.

An. Code, sec. 187. 1904, sec. 183. 1896, ch. 188.

250. 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 pub-
lic schools, and her intention to engage in the profession 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 twenty-five dollars for each
session she attended the normal department of said college, to be collected
as other debts are collected, and to be applied for the benefit of the normal
department of said college.