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CHAPTER 85.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 53 of
Article 77, of Bagby's Annotated Code of Public Civil Laws
of Maryland, entitled "Public Education," sub-title "Teach-
ers;" the same being designed to prescribe qualifications for
persons entitled to teach in the public schools of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 53 of Article 77 of Bagby's Annotated
Code of Public Civil Laws.of Maryland, entitled "Public Edu-
cation;" sub-title "Teachers," be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as follows:

53. No person shall be employed as a teacher under this
Article unless such person shall hold a certificate of quali-
fication (a) issued by the superintendent of the County in
which he or she proposes to teach; (b) a diploma of a State
Normal School of Maryland, or of the normal department of
Washington College; (c) a diploma of a standard normal school
of another State, which has been endorsed by the State Super-
intendent of Public Education; (d) a diploma of a reputable
college or university maintaining a department of pedagogy or
education, which has been approved by the State Superintend-
ent of Public Education of Maryland; (e) in the case of high
school teachers, the diploma of a standard college the work of
which included instruction in pedagogy satisfactory to the
State Superintendent of Public Education; or (f) a certificate
from the State Board of Education; as herein provided, and
after June 1, 1915 no person who has not been previously regu-
larly employed as a teacher shall be appointed a teacher without
having had special pedagogic training of at least five weeks in
an approved summer school, or its equivalent.

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

Approved March 17th, 1914.

CHAPTER 86.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Board of County Commis-
sioners of Prince George's County to levy and pay a sum of
money to Walter S. Young to reimburse him for money spent
in erecting a school building in Prince George's County.