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516 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77
1898, ch. 273.
118. No appropriation for the benefit of the colored indus-
trial schools of any county, provided for under this sub-title,
shall be paid after the first annual appropriation, unless the
average daily attendance at such school or schools shall have
been, for the preceding year, at least thirty scholars; and in case
said attendance shall fall short of said number, then there shall
be paid to the treasurer of the county school commissioners
maintaining said school or schools, only at the rate of fifty ($50. 00)
dollars a scholar, for the daily average annual attendance at the
same, to be determined by the report hereinbefore required to be
made to the comptroller.
Farmers' Institutes.
1896, ch. 102.
119. A department of "Farmers' Institutes" shall be estab-
lished for the State of Maryland; the purpose of these institutes
shall be to bring before the farmers of the State such informa-
tion as will effectually remedy many of the existing evils now
prevalent in every department of agriculture as now pursued
in Maryland; and at said institutes men competent to instruct
shall be present, and such topics shall be discussed as pertain to
the principal agricultural interests of the several sections.
Ibid.
120. One such institute shall be held in each year in each
county of the State, and an additional one in each county, if
deemed necessary and desirable.
Ibid.
121. Said institute shall be under the direction of a director,
to be appointed by the trustees of the Maryland Agricultural
College, who shall be a person well versed in the profession of
agriculture, and of practical experience, whose title shall be
"Director of Farmers' Institutes, " whose salary shall be fixed by
said board of trustees and paid out of the appropriation herein-
after provided, and whose duties shall be defined by said board;
the said institutes shall be a department of said college, similar
to the experiment station; all expenses of said institute shall be
paid out of said appropriation; and said board of trustees is
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