ART. 77] MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOLS IN COUNTIES. 1749

1898, ch. 273, sec. 4.

138. The county manual training school, or the manual
training department, and the school to which it is attached
shall be under the management and control of the board of
county school commissioners.

Ibid. sec. 5.

139. It shall be the duty of the board of county school
commissioners of each county in this State, whenever a suit-
able building, or room or rooms connected with one of the
colored schools of said county shall be provided by the county,
to accept the same (if in the judgment of the said board there
is any necessity therefor), and thereafter to provide for the
maintenance of such number of separate colored industrial
schools as in their judgment may be needed, and the salaries
of such teachers as may be required for that purpose shall be
paid out of the general fund and the State aid hereinafter
provided.

Ibid. sec. 6.

140. Whenever any such separate colored industrial school
or schools are opened in any county the president and secretary
of the board of county school commissioners of said county
shall report the fact to the secretary of the State board of
education, and the State board of education shall without
delay proceed to appoint a proper person well qualified for
such service to visit the said school or schools and give a,
certificate of approval of its condition and the plan upon
which it is conducted, and thereafter the president and secre-
tary of the said board shall report to the comptroller of this
State the condition of said school or schools, the number of
instructors and the number of pupils enrolled during the
school year last ended, on or before the twentieth day of
August in each year.

Ibid. sec. 7.

141. The comptroller of the treasury upon receiving the
certificate of approval concerning the county colored industrial
school or schools, as aforesaid, according to the provisions of
the next preceding section, 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, upon the filing of the certificate of approval aforesaid,
out of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appro-