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for a person of five years' experience as a teacher in an approved
high school, and not less than $800 for a person of eight years'
experience as teacher in an approved high school; experience
prior to the year 1910 not to be considered in determining
salary of principal and assistant teachers; (e) provision to be
made for a manual training or an agricultural or a commercial
course, as may be determined by the Board of County School
Commissioners; (f) no person to be employed as principal or
assistant teacher whose qualifications have not been passed upon
by the State Board of Education. - The course of instruction
in schools of the second group may be extended to four years
by the Board of County School Commissioners by the employ-
ment 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 teachers shall be paid wholely 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 prin-
cipal and the County Superintendent.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from September 1, 1914.

Approved April 16th, 1914.

CHAPTER 652.

AN ACT to regulate the practice of Optometry in the State of
Maryland, to establish a State Board of Examiners in Op-
tometry, to define the powers of said Board, and to provide-
penalties for the violation of this statute.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That within thirty days after the passage of this Act,
the Governor shall appoint a Board of Examiners in Optometry
for the State of Maryland. The Board shall consist of five per-
sons not more than two of whom may be, but not necessarily,
physicians. The Board shall be selected from a list of ten
names endorsed by the Maryland Association of Optometrists.
No person shall be eligible to appointment as a member of said
Board unless he has been engaged in the actual practice of
Optometry or Opthalmology in the State of Maryland con-
tinuously for five years last past, and a resident thereof. Va-
cancies from any cause shall be filled by the Governor for the-