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govern itself, in whole or in part; to appoint its professors, teachers and
instructors, and provide for their compensation and the expenses of con-
ducting said department out of any available funds including the tuition
fees to be received by it from the students therein, with power to discipline,
suspend, expel or reinstate any of such students.

Said Regents shall have, in addition to the powers conferred upon them
by the Act of Incorporation of the Maryland State College of Agriculture
the powers, rights and privileges heretofore possessed by the Regents of
the University of Maryland, under the charter of the University of Mary-
land, and may exercise such of them as they shall from time to time deem
judicious.

The Regents of the University of Maryland shall have power to conduct
or maintain such departments or schools in said University and in such
localities as they, from time to time, may deem wise.

Upon the going into effect of this Act, all the property and assets belong-
ing to each of the said corporations named herein, and all the debts and
liabilities thereof, of whatsoever nature and description, shall be devolved
upon the said consolidation and merged corporation.¹

The University of Maryland is an agency of the State Government and as it provides
education in law for its citizens, equal facilities must be provided for white and colored
students, unless such facilities are otherwise furnished by the State. University v.
Murray, 169 Md. 478.

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.

As to state board of agriculture, see art. 2A.

Free Scholarships.²

ST. MARY'S FEMALE SEMINARY, ST. MARY'S CITY, ST. MARY'S COUNTY.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 241. 1912, sec. 178. 1904, sec. 174. 1868, ch. 193. 1896, ch. 61.
1898, ch. 379. 1929, ch. 202.

236. One scholar shall be taken from each of the counties and each of
the six legislative districts of Baltimore City, and shall be selected by the
examiner and boards of county school commissioners of the respective
counties, and the board of commissioners of public schools in Baltimore
City, for the six legislative districts of said city respectively, without
recourse to a competitive examination, so that the most worthy and char-
itable may be selected; each pupil as selected to remain for the space of
four years, if not dismissed by the trustees.

Secs. 236-253 cited in construing Sec. 250. Hobbs v. Hodges, Daily Record, May 1,
1939.

¹ The act of 1916, ch. 372, incorporates the Maryland State College of Agriculture,
provides for trustees thereof and their meetings, for the officers of said college and their
salaries, prescribes the powers of the trustees and officers, confers upon the state college
of agriculture all endowments now owned by the Maryland Agricultural College, imposes
upon the former all the powers and duties devolving upon the latter, names the state
college of agriculture to receive appropriations and grants coming from the United States
government, and vests in said corporation all property used or operated by, or in the
possession of, the Maryland Agricultural College and the Maryland Agricultural Ex-
periment Station, and provides that the attorney-general of Maryland shall be the
legal adviser of the trustees.

The act of 1916, ch. 225, directs the Governor to appoint the same persons upon the
board of trustees of the Maryland State College of Agriculture and the state board
of agriculture.

² Ch. 90 of the acts of 1912 provides for certain scholarships in the School of Engineer-
ing at the Johns Hopkins University from the several counties and legislative districts of
Baltimore City.