1752 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77

1896, ch. 102. sec. 3.

148. Said institutes shall be under the direction of a director,
to be appointed by the trustees of the Maryland agricultural
college, who shall be a person well versed in the profession of
agriculture, and of practical experience, whose title shall be
"Director of Farmers' Institutes," whose salary shall be fixed
by said board of trustees and paid out of the appropriation
hereinafter provided, and whose duties shall be defined by said
board; the said institutes shall be a department of said college
similar to the experiment station; all expenses of said insti-
tutes shall be paid out of said appropriation; and said board
of trustees is invested with all powers necessary to carry into
effect the provisions of this sub-title, but no expenses shall be
incurred beyond the amount appropriated.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1898, ch. 252. 1900, ch. 363. 1904, ch. 557.

149. The sum of six thousand dollars per annum is hereby
appropriated for the formation and support of farmers' insti-
tutes in this State; and the comptroller is hereby authorized
to issue his warrant annually upon the treasurer for the said
sum of money out of any fund not otherwise appropriated ;
the said sum shall be payable to the order of the Maryland
agricultural college on or after the first of October of each
fiscal year, and the first yearly payment shall be made during
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1904.

Ibid, sec 5.

160. Accurate accounts of the expenditures of the money
received under this sub-title shall be kept by the registrar of
the Maryland agricultural college separate from the general
college accounts; and an itemized and detailed report of such
expenditures shall be made annually and published in such
manner as the board of trustees of the Maryland agricultural
college shall direct.

School Attendance.

1902, ch. 269, sec. 124.

151. Every child between eight and twelve years of age
shall attend some day school regularly as defined in section
158 of this sub-title during the entire period of each year the
public day schools in the city or county in which such child
resides are in session, unless it can be shown that the child is
elsewhere receiving regularly thorough instruction during said
period in the studies usually taught in the said public schools