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received by said commissioners to be paid to the trustees of
Anne Arundel county academy.

Chapter 20. Manual Training Schools in the Counties.

1898, ch. 273, sec. 1.

135. It shall be the duty of the board of county school
commissioners when a suitable building or room or rooms
connected with one of the large graded schools or high schools
shall be provided by the county, or money sufficient for the
erection of such building or room or rooms to accept the same
(if in the judgment of the board there is any necessity therefor)
and thereafter to provide for the maintenance of a manual
training school or manual training department for said county
and the salaries of teachers and manual training instructors
out of the general school fund and the State aid hereinafter
provided.

Ibid. sec. 2.

136. Whenever a manual training school or manual training
department is opened in any county the president and secre-
tary of the board of county school commissioners of said
county shall report to the secretary of the State board of
education, and the State board of education shall without
delay proceed to appoint the principal of the State normal
school, or one of the teachers in said school well qualified for
such service, to visit the school and give a certificate of
approval of its condition and the plan upon which it is con-
ducted, and thereafter the president and secretary of the board
of county school commissioners shall report to the comptroller
the condition of the school, the number of instructors and the
number of pupils enrolled on or before the twentieth day of
January in each year.

Ibid. sec. 3.

137. The comptroller of the treasury, after receiving the
certificate of approval concerning the county manual training
school, or manual training department, according to the pro-
visions of section 136, 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
filing 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 manual training
school or manual training department.