ART. 77] MANUAL TRAINING—FARMERS' INSTITUTES 1751

education, but not otherwise, the comptroller shall draw his
warrant upon the treasurer, payable to the order of the treas-
urer of the board of county school commissioners of the county
so certified as entitled to receive the same, for the full amount
of money so certified to be due to such county under the pro-
visions of this article, and the superintendent of public educa-
tion shall on or before the twentieth day of August in each
year submit to the State board of education a full report of
all matters pertaining to manual industrial training in such
counties and attach thereto a copy of the certificate filed by
him with the comptroller.

1902, ch, 418, sec. 118B.

145. The several boards of county school commissioners
are hereby authorized to establish manual training schools and
departments of manual training in connection with such num-
ber of graded or high sphools in their respective counties as
they shall deem expedient, and to distribute the money appro-
priated by this article equitably among the manual training
schools and departments of manual training so established, to
the end that instruction in such branch may not be restricted
to one locality in such county, but extended, as far as practi-
cable, to the whole of such county; provided, that the instruc-
tion to be given in such schools or departments shall in all
cases conform to the course or outline of such work prescribed
or to be prescribed by the State board of education; and pro-
vided that no part of the money appropriated by this article
for manual training shall be used for any other purpose.

Farmers' Institutes.

1896, ch. 102, sec. 1.

146. A department of "Farmers' Institutes" shall be estab-
lished for the State of Maryland; the purpose of these insti-
tutes shall be to bring before the farmers of the State such
information as will effectually remedy many of the existing
evils now prevalent in every department of agriculture as now
pursued in Maryland; and at said institutes men competent to
instruct shall be present, and such topics shall be discussed as
pertain to the principal agricultural interests of the several
sections.

Ibid. sec. 2.

147. One such institute shall be held in each year in each
county of the State, and an additional one in each county, if
deemed necessary and desirable.