EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1037

86. There may also be maintained, at each white state
normal school a four year preparatory course of a standard
high school grade for the accommodation of such students as
desire to teach but who are not provided with local high school
advantages; but no pupil may be admitted to this four year
course of a high school grade who has not completed the work
of the public elementary schools.

87. Students regularly admitted to the state normal schools
from the city of Baltimore and the several counties, who shall
obligate themselves to teach in the State of Maryland, shall
have free tuition and shall be furnished the use of text books
free of charge. Other students may be admitted to these
schools, in the discretion of the board of trustees, who possess
the prescribed qualifications for admission, on payment of a
fixed and uniform fee as determined by the board of trustees.

88. The several and respective sums hereafter appropri-
ated by the General Assembly for the erection of buildings, or
additions, repairs, up-keep, maintenance and support of each
of the state normal schools shall, unless otherwise specified and
provided, be paid in equal instalments on the first day of Jan-
uary, March, June and October to the treasurer of the state
board of education. On or before said dates, the Comptroller
shall draw his warrant on the treasurer of the State of Mary-
land for the respective amounts due on said dates to the treas-
urer of the state board of education. On receipt of the
warrant of the Comptroller, the Treasurer of the State
of Maryland shall immediately pay the amount due on
said dates to the treasurer of the state board of education,
and the same shall be paid to and applied by the board of trus-
tees of the state normal schools to the payment of teachers'
salaries, clerical and other assistance, for the purchase of ap-
paratus, school furniture, text books, library and reference
books, stationery, light, fuel, and for other necessary expenses
in maintaining and supporting the respective state normal,
schools, and when special appropriations are made for the erec-
tion of buildings or additions or unusual repairs the same shall
be used for the special purpose. The treasurer of the state
board of education shall make, on or before January the first
of each year, to the Governor, a report of the receipts and dis-
bursements of each of the state normal schools.