ART. 27. ] PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

comptroller, to the State board of education, and to be applied to
the payment of teachers' salaries, and the purchase of educational
apparatus, for the salary of the principal of the normal school, his
travelling expenses in attending meetings of teachers' institutes, and
superintending the schools throughout the State, and for such assist-
ance as may be required in the normal school during his absence on
duty, and for textbooks, stationery, fuel, light, and other incidental
expenses of the school.

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76. All donations or bequests of money or personal property, and
all grants or devises of lands for the benefit of the State normal
school, shall be held in trust by the State board of education.

1872, c 377, c 12,
s 9
Donations and
bequests.

7 7. The State board of education shall, on or before the fifteenth
day of January in each and every year, make a report to the gov-
ernor of the condition of the schools of the State, a statement of the
apportionment of money to the counties and the city of Baltimore
for the support of schools, an abstract of the reports received from
the board of county school commissioners, together with such sug-
gestions for the improvement of schools and the advancement of
public education as the State board of education shall deem ex-
pedient.

Id s 10
Reports by State
board.

78. And the governor shall cause three thousand copies of said
report to be printed and distributed to the members of the legisla-
ture in those years in which there is no session of the legislature.

TEACHERS' INSTITUTES

Id s 11.
Printing of
reports.

79. A teachers' institute, to continue five days, shall be held in
each county once a year, and the county examiner shall be present,
and shall give normal instruction to the teachers each day.

1874, c 463, c. 13,
s 1
Institute.

8 0. The principal of the State normal school shall fix the time of
the meeting of the institute, and it shall be the duty of the county
examiner to notify each teacher of the time and place of meeting.

1872, c. 377, c 13,
s 2
Time of
meeting.

8 1. These institutes being designed as temporary normal schools,
shall be presided over by the principal or one of the professors of
the State normal school, if he can be present, assisted by the county
examiner, and any member of the board of county school commis-
sioners who may choose to attend.

Id s 3
Temporary
normal schools

8 2. The president of the board of county school commissioners
shall select the place of meeting.

TEACHERS' ASSOCIATIONS.

Id s 4
Place of
meeting

83. District, county, and State teachers' associations are recom-
mended as important means of elevating the standard of public ed-
ucation by mutual conference, interchange of views, and suggestions
as to systems of teaching and discipline.

Id c 14, s 1
Recommended.

84. It shall be the care of the county examiner to aid in the
organization of these associations, to encourage attendance, to se-
cure competent lecturers, and to impart such information as will

Id s 2
Organization.