1734 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77

of city or county school commissioners, or receive appoint-
ment from the State board of education, as hereinafter pro-
vided : the State board of education is authorized and empow-
ered to arrange and prescribe for each State normal school or
normal department receiving State aid, an academic or prepara-
tory course, and shall prescribe such qualifications of age and
scholastic attainments as it may deem proper. The students
of the State normal schools and normal departments receiving
State aid shall be apportioned by the State board of education,
among the several counties and the city of Baltimore in pro-
portion to their respective representation in the general assem-
bly of the State; the students shall be selected by the several
boards of county school commissioners and the board of com-
missioners of the public schools of Baltimore city from among
worthy persons who desire to make .teaching their profession,
and who may possess the necessary scholastic qualifications,
namely, scholarships equal to graduation from approved high
schools for the normal course, and scholarship equal to com-
pletion satisfactorily of the seventh year grade of our public
school curriculum for the academic course; applicants for
scholarships must file their application for scholarship, and also
with the State board of education, a written declaration that
their object in obtaining* admission is to qualify themselves as
public school teachers, and that it is their intention to engage
in the profession in this State; whenever it is possible to do
so, the board of county school commissioners and the board
of school commissioners of Baltimore city shall appoint an
alternate for each person who may receive a scholarship, and
if for any reason such person who was awarded the scholarship
does not use or accept the same, or for any other reason fails
to become a student of the normal school or normal depart-
ment, then the person appointed as alternate shall be entitled
to the privileges of such scholarship. If there be not appli-
cants sufficient from any county or the city of Baltimore, then
the State board of education may fill all vacancies by selecting
applicants possessing the requisite qualifications from any
portion of the State, in the proportion aforesaid.

1888, art. 77, sec. 74. 1872, ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584.

81. In addition to the students admitted from the counties

and the city of Baltimore, who shall enjoy the privileges of

the school and be furnished with the use of the text-books

free of charge, there may be admitted, in the discretion of the