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the board of county school commissioners of said county shall
report the fact to the secretary of the State board of educa-
tion, and the State board of education shall without delay pro-
ceed to appoint a proper person well qualified for such service,
to visit the said school or schools and give a certificate of
approval of its condition and the plan upon which it is conducted,
and thereafter the president and secretary of the said board shall
report to the Comptroller of this State the condition of said
school or schools, the number of instructors and the number of
pupils enrolled during the school year last ended, on or before
the 20th day of August in each year.

1898, ch. 273

116. The comptroller of the treasury upon receiving the
certificate of approval concerning the county colored industrial
school or schools, as aforesaid, according to the provisions of the
next preceding section, is hereby authorized and directed to
issue his warrant upon the treasurer of the State for the sum of
fifteen hundred dollars, payable to the order of the treasurer of
the board of county school commissioners of the county, upon the
filing of the certificate of approval aforesaid, out of any moneys
in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, on the first day
of October in each year, for the support of said colored indus-
trial school or schools, and thereafter the said industrial school or
schools shall be under the management and control of the said
board of county school commissioners.

Ibid.

117. No entire appropriation for the benefit of any manual
training school, provided for under this sub-title, shall be paid as
authorized, after the first annual appropriation, unless said school
shall have had an average daily attendance of thirty scholars for
the preceding year; and in case said attendance shall fall short of
said number, then there shall only be paid towards the mainte-
nance of said school at the rate of fifty ($50. 00) dollars for each
scholar of its daily average annual attendance, to be determined
by the report hereinbefore required to be made to the comptroller.