1004 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 506

all children within the State between six and eighteen years
of age, inclusive; also the forms and blanks to be employed in
taking such census and in compiling the reports thereon.

13. The state board of education shall prescribe, with and
on the advice of the state superintendent of schools, a uniform
series of forms or blanks for the use of county boards of edu-
cation, school officials, and teachers, and shall require all finan-
cial accounts, including the annual budget and all educational
records, to be kept and all reports to be made according to
these forms or blanks.

17. The state board of education shall require, with and
on the advice of the state superintendent of schools, all private
educational associations, corporations, or institutions to report
annually, on or before the thirty-first day of August, as to en-
rollment and courses of study on such forms as the State Board.
of Education may provide.

17A. The state board of education shall conduct, with and
on the advice of the state superintendent of schools, investiga-
tions relating to the educational needs of the State and the
means of improving educational conditions; they may employ
additional expert assistance for such investigations if needed,
and appoint special agents for special investigations of special
work.

17B. The state board of education shall transmit bien-
nially to the Governor, certified to by the state superintendent
of schools, an annual state public school budget as determined
by existing laws, including the appropriation for the state
department of education, the maintenance of the state normal
schools, the retired teachers' pensions, state-aid to approved
high schools, state-aid to approved colored industrial schools,
the part payment of the salaries of county superintendents of
schools, and of one supervisor and one attendance officer in
each of the counties and the superintendent, one supervisor
and one attendance officer in the City of Baltimore, the free
text book fund, materials of instruction and school supplies,
and such other appropriations for special educational purposes
as may from time to time be made by the General Assembly,
and an estimate of the amount that will remain, after all deduc-
tions for special purposes and activities, for apportionment
to the counties and the city of Baltimore. It shall also be the
duty of the state board of education, on and with the advice
of the state superintendent of schools, to prepare, from time to