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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 6, 1908.

CHAPTER 635.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section 67 of
article 77 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland
of 1904, title "Public Education, " and to add six new sections
thereto, to come after section 122 of said article, and to be
numbered, respectively, section 122A, 122B, 122C, 122D, 122E
and 122 1/2 E, designed to provide a commercial course in cer-
tain approved high schools.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 67 of article 77 of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland of 1904, title "Public Education, " be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments,
and that six new sections be and the same are hereby added to
said article, to come in immediately after section 122, and to
be numbered, respectively, sections 122A, 122s, 122c, 122D, 122E
and 1221/^B, so that the whole, when enacted, shall read as
follows:

67. The sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is
hereby appropriated to be paid by the State Treasurer upon the
warrant of the Comptroller, on the first day of October, 1908,
and annually thereafter, to be expended, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, for the purchase of text books, as provided
in this article. The whole of said sum shall be appropriated
by the Comptroller in the month of September of each and
every year, according to and based upon the total number of
different pupils enrolled, as disclosed by the statistics of the
report of the State Board of Education for the fiscal year end-
ing July 31, 1907, and every succeeding odd year, and he shall
immediately thereafter notify the treasurer of the several
boards of County School Commissioners of the counties and
the city of Baltimore of the amount thus found to be due to
each, and the same shall be paid to the treasurer of the Board
of School Commissioners of Baltimore city and the several
counties upon the draft of the president and secretary of the
several Boards of County School Commissioners and the city
of Baltimore aforesaid.

122A. For the further encouragement of certain approved
high schools, and to make possible the inauguration of a com-
mercial course, an appropriation according to the provisions