1184 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77.

then the State board of education may fill all vacancies by se-
lecting applicants possessing the requisite qualifications from any
other portion of the State in the proportion aforesaid.

1872, ch, 877.

74. 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 text books free of
charge, there may be admitted 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 qualifications, 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 regulations 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 vacan-
cies may be filled by pay scholars to the full capacity of the school.

Ibid.

75. The State board of education shall prescribe the course of
study and supervise the school in every particular not provided
for in this article; they shall make provision for model and ex-
perimental primary and grammar schools, under qualified teachers,
in which the students of the normal school shall have an oppor-
tunity to practise the modes of instruction and discipline incul-
cated 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.

1872, ch. 377. 1874, ch. 463.

76. 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 comptroller, to the State board of education, and to be applied
to the payment of teachers' salaries, and the purchase of educa-
tional apparatus, for the salary of the principal of the normal
school, his traveling expenses in attending meetings of teachers,
institutes and superintending the schools throughout the State,