1736 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77

1888. art. 77, see. 78. 1872, ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584.

85. The State board of education shall, on .or before the first
day of January in each and every year, make a report to the
governor of the condition of the schools of the State; a state-
ment of the apportionment of money to the counties and the
city of Baltimore for the support of schools; an abstract of the
reports received from the board of county school commissioners,
together with such suggestions for the improvement of schools
and the advancement of public education as the State board of
education shall deem expedient.

Ibid. sec. 79. 1872, ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584.

86. The governor shall cause three thousand copies of said
report, five hundred to be bound in cloth, to be printed and
distributed every year.

Chapter 13. Teachers' Institutes.

Ibid. sec. 80. 1870, ch. 311. 1872, ch. 377, sub-ch. 13, sec. 1. 1874, ch. 463.

1904, ch. 584.

87. A teachers' institute, to continue five days, shall be held
in each county once a year, and in the absence of the State
superintendent the county superintendent shall preside.

Ibid. sec. 81. 1872, ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584.

88. The State superintendent of public education shall fix
a time of the meeting of the institute, and it shall be the duty
of the county superintendent to notify each teacher of the time
and place of meeting, and when so notified, each teacher in
actual employment is required to attend; the president of the
school board shall select the place for the institute to meet.

Ibid. sec. 82. 1872, ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584.

89. These institutes, being designed as temporary normal
schools, shall be attended by the State superintendent, when
possible to do so, and by one or more instructors of a State
normal school or normal department faculty, to be selected by
the State superintendent and the principal of the school, and
any member of the board of county school commissioners who
may choose to attend.

Ibid. sec. 83. 1872, ch. 377. 1890, ch. 323. 1904, ch. 584.

90. The members of the State board of education and the
members of the county school boards shall encourage the work
of the Maryland State teachers' reading circle, which was
organized by the Maryland State teachers' association, and