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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of the said board there is any necessity therefor, and thereafter
to provide for the maintenance of such member of separate
colored industrial schools as in their judment 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.
SEC. 6. And be it enacted. That whenever any such separate

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proper
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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 condi-
tion and the plan upon which it is conducted, and thereafter
the president and secretary 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
10th day of August in each year.
SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the Comptroller of the

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Treasury upon receiving the certificate of approval concerning
the county colored industrial school or schools, as aforesaid,
according to the provisions of the sixth section of this Act, 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 treasurer of the Board of County School
Commissioners of the county, upon the filing of the certificates
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 colored industrial school or
schools, and thereafter the said industrial school or schools
shall be under the management and control of the said Board
of County School Commissioners.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That no entire appropriation for

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the benefit of any manual training school, provided for under
this Act, shall be paid as authorized, after the first annual
appropriation, unless said school shall have had an average
daily attendance of thirty scholars for the preceding year ; and
in case said attendance shall fall short of said number, then
there shall only be paid towards the maintenance of said
school at the rate of fifty ($50.00) dollars for each scholar of
its daily average annual attendance, to be determined by the
report hereinbefore required to be made to the Comptroller.