992 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That one new Section be added to Article 77 of Bagby's
Annotated Code of Public Civil Laws of Maryland of 1912,
entitled "Public Education," sub-title "State Board of Educa-
tion;" said Section to be known as 15 1/2, to follow 15 of said
Article and to read as follows:

15 1/2. The State Board of Education shall within one year-
after the passage of this Act prescribe minimum requirements
for the issuing of the various academic, collegiate, professional,
or university degrees which it is the custom for the educational
institutions within the United States to issue and said Board
shall have authority to modify said requirements from time to-
time as generally accepted standards may change, provided no
educational institution shall be required to comply with stand-
ards fixed by the State Board of Education for the issuing of
degrees until one year after the publication of said standards by
said State Board. No public or private educational institution
shall issue any academic, collegiate, professional or university
degree without first having obtained the assent of the State
Board of Education of Maryland and the approval by said
Board of the conditions of scholarship, study and residence upon
which said degrees are issued.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland.
That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions
of this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of their incon-
sistency.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That this Act shall take effect August 1, 1914.

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 593.

AN ACT to amend the Charter of the Anne Arundel County'
Produce Exchange, Incorporated, regulating the voting
powers of stockholders.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Charter of the Anne Arundel County Produce
Exchange, Incorporated, a corporation duly incorporated under
the Public General Laws of the State of Maryland, the certifi-
cate of incorporation being recorded among the Charter Rec-