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the county examiner or the city superintendent, in tes-
timony of their scholastic proficiency, and shall also
file a written declaration that their object in obtaining
admission is to qualify themselves as public school
teachers, and that it is their intention to engage in
the profession of teaching within the state ; and in case
any students shall fail to fulfil the condition upon
which they were admitted, they shall forfeit and pay
thirty dollars for each session they have attended the
normal school, to be collected as other debts are col-
lected, and to be applied for the benefit of the normal
school. If there be not applicants sufficient from any
county or the city, then the board of state school com-

missioners may fill all vacancies, by selecting appli-
cants possessing the requisite qualifications, from any
other portion of the state, in the proportion aforesaid.

Vacancies.

6. In addition to the students admitted from the
counties and the city of Baltimore, who shall enjoy all
the privileges of the school, and be furnished with the
use of the text books free of charge, there may be ad-
mitted, in the proportion of one to two of the scholars
selected by the board of city and county school com-
missioners, other persons having the requisite qualifi-
cations, who shall pay the sum of twenty-five dollars
per session, and purchase their own text books, and be
subject in every respect to the same rules- and regula--

Additional stu-
dents.

tions as the other students ; provided, that the number
of students sent by the state shall not exceed two hun-
dred, and as long as this number is not exceeded by
the state, or after it shall have been reached by the
state, all remaining vacancies may be filled by pay
scholars to the full capacity of the school.

Proviso

7. The board of state school commissioners shall
prescribe the course of study, and supervise the school
in every particular not provided for in this law ; they
shall make provision for model and experimental pri-
mary and grammar schools, under qualified 'teachers,
in which the students of the normal school shall have
opportunity to practice the modes of instruction and dis-
cipline inculcated in the normal school. The salary of

Course. of study