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made for a Manual Training or an Agricultural or a Com-
mercial course, as may be determined by the Board of County
School Commissioners; provided, that no high school which
fulfills the condtiions under (b), (c), (d) and (e) and is now
on the list of approved "high schools" shall be excluded from
this group, within two years from the first day of June, 1910.
The course of instruction in schools of the second group may
be extended to four years by the Board of County School Com-
missioners by the employment of such additional teacher or
teachers as may be required by the State Board of Education;
provided, that the salary of such additional teacher or teach-
ers shall be paid wholly by the said Board of County School
Commissioners, and in the schools of the second group, where
the course of instruction has been so extended to a four-year
course, the graduates shall receive the same recognition as
graduates of schools of the first group. No promotions of
high-school pupils from one grade to another or graduation,
shall be made without the approval of the principal and the
County Superintendent.

122. It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of
Education or some person designated by him, to make an an-
nual inspection of all high schools receiving State aid, and
also such other schools as make application, through their re-
spective County Superintedents, to receive said State aid. He
shall, on or before the 15th day of August of each year, prepare
a list of high schools, designating the group to which each be-
longs, the amount of State aid to which each is entitled, and
to whom same should be paid. The preparation of said list
shall be based on information obtained through the annual
inspection, written reports of the principal or County Superin-
tendent, or other reliable sources. " The Superintendent's re-
port of such schools shall be submitted to the State Board of
Education for approval, and when approved, said Board shall
certify same to the Comptroller of the Treasury, on or before
the 1st day of October of each year, and said Comptroller of
the Treasury shall issue his warrant upon the Treasurer of
the State in equal quarterly installments in each and every
year at the time when the public school tax is now or may here-
after be, distributed, payable to the order of the treasurers of
the respective Boards of County School Commissioners, or the
Board of Commissioners of Public Schools of Baltimore City,
for such sum or sums as they are entitled to receive under the
provisions of this Article, and shown by the certified list of
high schools as aforesaid; same to be paid out of the levy for
public schools; provided, however, that the apportionment au-
thorized in this section for October 1, 1910, and January 1,
1911, shall be paid out of the ordinary receipts of the treas-