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1929, ch. 152, sec. 235C.

235C. It shall be the duty of the State Comptroller, upon receipt of
each such certificate from the State Board of Education, as provided for in
Section 235B hereof, to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer, payable
to such Board of School Commissioners, and for such sum as may be shown
in such certificates, such warrants to be payable out of any available funds
appropriated for that purpose, and the State Treasurer shall thereupon
make payment accordingly; provided, however, that if there be not suffi-
cient funds available to fully pay all such warrants, such funds as are so
available shall be pro-rated amongst all such warrants in the proportion
that the amount of each such warrant bears to the total amount of all such
warrants, and the deficiency shall thereafter be made up when and as
funds may be available therefor.

Miscellaneous.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 236. 1912, sec. 173. 1904, sec. 169. 1904, ch. 584, sec. 2.

1916, ch. 506, sec. 173. 1929, ch. 152, sec. 236. 1931, ch. 159,

sec. 236. 1935, ch. 554.

236. Wherever the words "superintendent of public education" occur
in this sub-title, they shall be construed to mean State Superintendent of
Schools; wherever the words "board of county school commissioners"
occur, they shall be construed to mean "county board of education";
wherever the words "board of district school trustees" occur, they shall be
construed to mean "district board of school trustees"; wherever the words
"handicapped children" occur, they shall be construed to mean "all chil-
dren between the ages of six and eighteen years, inclusive, who, because
of mental or physical handicap, are incapable of receiving proper benefit
from ordinary public school instruction and who, for their own or the
social welfare, need special public school instruction or training"; wher-
ever the words the state normal school at Towson, the state normal school
at Frostburg, and the state normal school at Bowie occur in this Article,
they shall be construed to mean the state normal at Towson, the state
normal school at Frostburg, the state normal school at Salisbury, and the
state normal school at Bowie; wherever the words "state normal school"
occur in this Article to designate a school which maintains a four-year,
course of study, they shall be construed to mean "state teachers college";
and wherever the term "principal" occurs in this Article to designate the
head of a normal school which maintains a four-year course of study, it
shall be construed to mean "president of a state teachers college. "

237.

See sec. 41 and art, 81, sec. 7.

University of Maryland.

240.

This section referred to in holding that the University may suspend student
for refusal to take prescribed course in military training, though refusal was
based on conscientious religious opposition to war. University v. Coale, 165
Md. 224.