1008 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 506

(1) An assistant state superintendent of schools, who shall
represent the state superintendent of schools in his absence;
shall have charge of the office of the department, the corre-
spondence, publications, records, reports, and educational and
financial statistics; shall audit the accounts of the county
boards of education, and shall perform such other duties as
may be assigned to him by the state superintendent of schools.

(2) A supervisor of high schools, who shall have super-
vision of state-aided high schools, shall aid the instructors in
all other schools above the seventh grade, and shall perform
such other duties as may be assigned to him by the state super-
intendent of schools.

(3) A supervisor of rural schools, who shall devote his
energies to helping teachers, superintendents and interested
citizens to formulate a program of rural education adapted to
the specific and general needs of the State, and who shall per-
form such other duties as may be assigned to him by the state
superintendent of schools.

(4) A white supervisor of colored schools, who shall have
supervision of all colored schools, and shall perform such other
duties as may be assigned to him by the state superintendent
of schools.

(5) And such other clerical and professional assistants
and agents as may be authorized by the state board of educa-
tion within the limits of the appropriation for the State depart-
ment of education.

21B. The state superintendent of schools, subject to the
rules and regulations of the state board of education, shall
direct the taking of a biennial school census of all the chil-
dren in the State between the ages of 6 and 18 years inclusive,
to be taken first in the year 1918, and every two years there-
after, and he may cause the whole or any part of the school
census of the city of Baltimore or of any county to be retaken
at any time, if, in his judgment, the whole or any part of such
census has not been properly or correctly taken.

21C. The state superintendent of schools shall prepare or
cause to be prepared the annual report of the state board of
education and shall submit the same to the board for its ap-
proval and adoption; he shall also prepare or cause to be pre-
pared, all other reports which are or may be required of this
board.