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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Adjutant Gen-
eral to furnish
arms.

Sec. 12. The Adjutant General of the State shall,
upon requisition from the State Board of Education,
furnish to the State Normal School such arms and
equipments as are needed for the use of the stu-
dents.

AIDS AND ENCOURAGEMENTS TO UNI-
VERSAL EDUCATION.

CHAPTER I.

Educational
Tracts.

SECTION 1. Cheap educational tracts, documents
and periodicals shall be issued to Teachers and
others by the State Superintendent as he shall
deem expedient. Also, tracts explanatory of the
school system of the State, containing such infor-
mation as may be important to the advancement of
sound instruction and good discipline.

Appropriation

Sec. 2. For the purchase, printing and distribu-
tion of such documents, the annual sum of one hun-
dred dollars is hereby appropriated from the sur-
plus revenue fund.

CHAPTER II.

School district

SECTION 1. For the further encouragement of
universal education, district libraries ought to be
established in each school district, under the care
of the Teacher, as Librarian; for this purpose the
sum of twenty dollars per annum is ordered to be
paid to any school district as library money, as long

Libraries.
How selected.

as the people raise the same amount annually;
the books must be selected by the District Com-
missioner from the Library List authorized by the
State Board of Education; the amount required
for library, money is appropriated from the surplus
revenue fund,.

TITLE.— MISCELLANEOUS.
CHAPTER I.— COLORED POPULATIONS

Under whose
control.

SECTION 1. The total amount of taxes paid for
school purposes by the colored people of any coun-
ty and the city of Baltimore, together with any