ART. ] PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 83

Education from applicants at large, so that the whole number of
youth may enjoy the advantage designed to be secured through
the State donation, and the system of free public instruction in
primary schools, grammar schools, high schools and colleges be
realized.

86. The annual commencements for conferring degrees shall
be held in the city of Baltimore on the fourth day of July,
under such regulations as the Council of the University of Mary-
land may from time to time announce; this shall not take effect
until the Board of Education after consultation with the regents
of the University may direct, and shall in no way interfere with
such literary exercises and class orations as are held at the dif-
ferent colleges at the close of each collegiate year.

EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS.

87. It shall be the duty of the President of the Board of
School Commissioners to examine all candidates for the profes-
sion of Teachers, in the presence of any members of the board
of school commissioners, should they desire to be present, and
to give to each person found qualified, a certificate setting forth
the branches they are competent to teach, but no certificate shall
be granted without satisfactory evidence of the moral character
of the applicant.

88. The certificates used shall be numbered and registered for
each city and county, in a book kept by the said President, and
to deliver to his successors in office, and shall be denominated
first or second grade, as the case may be. Certificates of the
first grade shall embrace orthography, reading, writing, arith-
metic, geography, history, English grammar, book-keeping,
algebra and natural philosophy; and the second grade shall em-
brace orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, his-
tory and English grammar. Blank certificates to be obtained
from the State Superintendent's office, in same way that text
books and stationery are.