ART. 77] STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION—SUPERINTENDENT. 1715

1888, art. 77, sec 16. 1872. ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584

16. The members of the State board of education shall be
ex-officio trustees of the State normal school.

Ibid. sec. 17. 1872, ch. 377 1904, ch. 584.

17. All schools and colleges and all normal school depart-
ments receiving State donations shall make a report on or
before the fifteenth day of September in each year of such
matters and in such forms as the State board of education shall
require; and said reports, or an abstract therefrom, shall be
published by the president of the board in his annual report.

Duer v. Dashiell, 91 Md. 669, 648.

Superintendent of Public Education.

1900, ch. 428, sec. 17 A. 1902, ch. 466.

18. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of
the senate, shall appoint a competent person as superintendent
of public education for the State of Maryland, who shall serve
for a term of four years, beginning on the first Monday in
May ensuing his appointment, and until his successor has been
appointed and qualified according to law; and said person as
superintendent of public education shall be, ex officio, a member
of the State board of education; provided, that the governor
at any time may remove such person from office for misconduct
or inefficiency, upon submitting his reasons for such removal
in writing to such person; and provided, further, that such
removal be approved and ratified by two-thirds of the members
of the State board of education.

1900, ch. 428, sec 17 B. 1902, ch. 194. 1904, ch. 584

19. The superintendent of public education shall receive a
salary from said appropriations for public schools, the amount
of which salary shall be fixed by the State board of education,
provided it shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars
per annum, in addition to an allowance of five hundred dollars
per annum for traveling expenses; the said superintendent of
public education shall receive annually the sum of one thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be needed for the purchase
of stationery, office fixtures and supplies; and he shall cause
to be printed and distributed to the public school teachers of
the counties of the State, each year, a pamphlet for the proper
observance of Arbor Day, a teacher's manual of institute work,
the proceedings of the Maryland State teachers' association,
and such other circulars and printed matter as will encourage