INTERRACIAL COMMISSION 2199

entation of an itemized account with proper vouchers, provided that such
expenses shall in no case exceed the amounts appropriated therefor.

Appropriations shall from time to time be made for surveys, traveling
expenses, office rent, stationery, postage, printing, advertising, telegraph,
telephone, mimeographing, multigraphing, books, periodicals, office furni-
ture and the like, and to provide prizes and programs for community fairs
and farmers conferences, and for other similar general or educational pur-
poses.

1927, ch. 559, sec. 3.

3. Said Commission shall make such By-Laws and regulations, not
inconsistent with this Article, as it may deem proper. It shall have full
and plenary powers to investigate interracial conditions and to promote
the welfare of the colored race and the betterment of interracial relations.

The Executive Secretary shall record the transactions of the Commission
and perform such other duties as may be ordered by the Commission.

Negro Scholarships.

1937, ch. 506, sec. 4.

4. The sum of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) provided in the
1938-1939 Budget for scholarships and partial scholarships for negroes
and expenses of awarding same, and all sums hereafter appropriated for
such purpose, shall be used to provide educational facilities and oppor-
tunities for negroes of this State equal to those now provided for white per-
sons and especially to equip such negroes for the professions, such as
Medicine, Law, Dentistry and Pharmacy, or any other profession or branch
of education for which the State of Maryland provides opportunities for
white students and for which it does not provide opportunities for negro
students.

1937, ch. 506, sec. 5.

5. Whenever any bona fide negro resident and citizen of this State,
possessing the qualifications of health, character, ability and preparatory
education required for admission to the University of Maryland, desires
to obtain an education not provided for either in Morgan College or
Princess Anne College, he may make application for a scholarship pro-
vided by the funds mentioned in the foregoing section, so that he may obtain
aid to enable him to attend a college or university where equal educational
facilities can be provided and furnished, whether or not such an agency
or institution is operated by the State or under some other arrangement,
and whether or not such facilities are located in Maryland or elsewhere.
Under such conditions, it shall be provided that out of the scholarship
funds mentioned in the foregoing section, the applicant, if he possesses
the proper qualifications, may have paid to him or direct to the institu-
tion which he is to attend, such sum, if any, as may be necessary to sup-
plement the amount which it would cost him to attend the University of
Maryland, so that such person will be enabled to secure educational facil-
ities, training and opportunities equal to those provided otherwise for
white students, without additional cost to such person. Be it provided,
however, that the Commission hereinafter established, shall, in its discre-
tion, have authority, in exceptional cases, to allow a grant for a scholarship