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PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. [ART. 27.

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Students.

72. Students of both sexes shall be admitted to the State normal
school; females at the age of sixteen years, and males at the age of
seventeen years. The students shall be apportioned by the State
board of education among the several counties and the city of Balti-
more in proportion to their respective representation in the General
Assembly of the State. The students shall be selected by the sev-
eral boards of county school commissioners, and the board of com-
missioners of public schools of the city of Baltimore, from among
persons having scholastic qualifications hereinbefore required for
teachers; before any appointment shall be made the applicants shall
procure the certificate of the county examiner or city superintendent
in testimony of their scholastic proficiency, and shall also file a writ-
ten 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 conditions 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 collected, 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 State board of education may fill all vacancies by selecting ap-
plicants possessing the requisite qualifications from any other por-
tion of the State in the proportion aforesaid.

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Textbooks.

73. In addition to the students admitted from the counties and
the city of Baltimore, who shall enjoy all the privileges of the schools
and be furnished with the use of the textbooks free of charge, there
may be admitted in the proportion of one to two of the scholars se-
lected by the board of city and county school commissioners, other
persons having the requisite qualifications, who shall pay the sum of
twenty-five dollars per session, and purchase their own textbooks,
and be subject in every respect to the same rules and regulations as
the other students; provided, that the number of students sent by
the State shall not exceed two bundled, and as long as this number
is not exceeded by the State, or after it shall have been reached by

Pay scholars.

the State, all remaining vacancies may be filled by pay scholars to
the full capacity of the school.

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Course of study.

74. The State board of education shall prescribe the course of
study, and supervise the school in every particular not provided for
in this law, they shall make provisions for model and experimental
primary and grammar schools, under qualified teachers, in which the
students of the normal school shall have an opportunity to practice
the modes of instruction and discipline inculcated in the normal
school. The salaries of the teachers of the model and experimental
schools shall be paid in part from the tuition fees derived from the
pupils of said model schools.

1874, c. 463, c 12,

s. 8.

Appropriation

75. The annual sum of ten thousand five hundred dollars, is
hereby appropriated for the support of the normal school, to be paid
in quarterly instalments by the treasurer, on the warrant of the