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sional and clerical assistants of the department and may recommend their
dismissal for immorality, misconduct in office, insubordination, incompe-
tency or wilful neglect of duty. But the qualification of all appointments,
their tenure and compensation, except as may hereinafter be provided,
shall be determined by the state board of education.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 35. 1912, sec. 21A. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 21A.

35. The state department of education shall hereafter be provided with
the following professional assistants. Such professional assistants as are
employed at the time this section shall take effect shall be eligible for
reappointment to the positions which they now hold:

(1) An assistant state superintendent of schools, who shall represent
the state superintendent of schools in his absence; shall have charge of
the office of the department, the correspondence, publications, records,
reports, and educational and financial statistics; shall audit the accounts
of the county boards of education, and shall perform such other duties as
may be assigned to him by the state superintendent of schools.

(2) A supervisor of high schools, who shall have supervision of state-
aided high schools, shall aid the instructors in all other schools above the
seventh grade, and shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to
him by the state superintendent of schools.

(3) A supervisor of rural schools, who shall devote his energies to
helping teachers, superintendents and interested citizens to formulate a
program of rural education adapted to the specific and general needs of
the State, and who shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to
him by the state superintendent of schools.

(4) A white supervisor of colored schools, who shall have supervision
of all colored schools, and shall perform such other duties as may be as-
signed to him by the state superintendent of schools.

(5) And such other clerical and professional assistants and agents as
may be authorized by the state board of education within the limits of the
appropriation for the State department of education.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 36. 1912, sec. 21B. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 21B. 1920, ch. 489.
1929, ch. 152, sec. 36. 1931, ch. 159, sec. 36.

36. The State Superintendent of Schools, subject to the rules and regu-
lations of the State Board of Education, shall direct the taking of a biennial
school census of all the children in the counties of the State between the
ages of 5 and 18 years inclusive, said census to be taken first in the year
1922 and every two years thereafter. The State Superintendent of Schools
may cause the whole or any part of the school census of the City of Balti-
more, or of any county, to be retaken at any time, if in his judgment the
whole or any part of such census has not been properly or correctly taken.
Whenever the State Board of Education shall receive the school census
from the County Boards of Education and the Board of School Commis-
sioners of Baltimore City, which shall contain specific data on each handi-
capped child, the State Superintendent of Schools shall cause to be pre-
pared a list of all handicapped children shown therein with their names
and addresses, and shall furnish a copy thereof to the State Board of
Health and to the principals of the respective State schools for handicapped
children.