1018 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 506

shall recommend the same for approval to the county board of
education.

72 I. The county superintendent of schools shall prepare
courses of study, subject to the rules and regulations and the
courses of study of the state board of education, for the public
schools of the county, and shall recommend the same for adop-
tion by the county board of education.

72J. The county superintendent of schools shall prepare
lists of such text-books, supplementary readers, materials of
instruction, stationery and school supplies, school furniture,
equipment and apparatus, as are needed by the schools, and
shall recommend the purchase and distribution of the same by
the county board of education.

73. The county superintendent of schools, acting under the
rules and regulations of the county board of education, shall
be responsible for the administration of the office of the county
superintendent of schools. He shall nominate, for appoint-
ment by the county board of education, all the professional,
clerical, statistical and stenographic assistants of the office; he
shall recommend their removal for immorality, misconduct in
office, incompetency, insubordination or wilful neglect of duty,
and he shall see that all regular appointees of the county
board of education devote their entire time to their duties.
But the qualifications of all appointments, their tenure and
compensation, except as may hereinafter be provided, shall be
determined by the county board of education. The office of the
county superintendent of schools shall, beginning with the
school year, 1916-1917, be provided as follows with profes-
sional, clerical, statistical and stenographic assistants; pro-
vided that all professional, clerical, statistical and stenographic
assistants holding office at the time of the enactment of this
section shall continue to serve to the end of the terms for which
they were originally appointed, and until their successors qual-
ify, unless removed as herein provided; and provided further
that they shall be paid, beginning with the school year 1916-
1917, on the basis of the salaries herein specified:

(1) In each county employing not less than one hundred
(100) teachers, there shall be appointed at least one primary
grade supervisor, who shall receive such compensation as the
county board of education shall direct; provided that no per-
son shall be eligible for appointment as a supervisor who does
not hold from the superintendent of public education a certifi-
cate in supervision as provided for in section 55 of this article;