PUBLIC EDUCATION 2985

WASHINGTON COLLEGE.
An. Code, 1924, sec. 246. 1912, sec. 183. 1904, sec. 179. 1896, ch. 63.

242. The visitors and governors of Washington college in the State of
Maryland, shall have full power and authority to establish in said college
or seminary of learning a department of pedagogy for the instruction and
practise of teachers in the science of education, the art of teaching and the
mode of governing schools, to which department students of both sexes
shall be admitted.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 247. 1912, sec. 184. 1904, sec. 180. 1896, ch. 63.

243. The visitors and governors of Washington college may prescribe
such a course of instruction, to be completed in not less than three scholas-
tic years, as the principal, vice-principal and professors of Washington
college in the State of Maryland shall deem necessary for carrying into
effect the true intent and meaning of this act—the education of compe-
tent teachers for the State of Maryland.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 248. 1912, sec. 185. 1904, sec. 181. 1896, ch. 63.

244. 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 recommenda-
tion of any public school examiner under whose supervision the graduate
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 visitors
and governors of Washington college.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 249. 1912, sec. 186. 1904, sec. 182. 1896, ch. 188.

245. 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, 1924, sec. 250. 1912, sec. 187. 1904, sec. 183. 1896, ch. 188.

246. Any female graduate of any public school on the Eastern Shore
of Maryland shall have the privilege of competing for appointment to said