ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR, 169
CHAPTER 121.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 193,
195, 197, and 198 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Public Education, " sub-
title "High Schools, " providing for two groups of high schools
instead of three, and relating: to the admission of graduates
of first group high schools to State-aided institutions of
higher learning.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 193, 195, 197, and 198 of Article 77 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Public
Education, " sub-title "High Schools, " be and they are hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments, to read as follows:

193. For the encouragement of secondary education in Mary-
land, the State shall extend aid to such groups of high schools
in such amounts and in such manner as hereinafter designated
and described. All high schools of the counties of the State
of Maryland receiving State Aid shall be arranged by the State
Board of Education into two groups, to be designated
first group, and second group, according to the num-
ber and average daily attendance of pupils enrolled, teach-
ers employed, and number of years and quality of instruc-
tion given. High schools of the first group shall fulfill the
following minimum requirements: (a) they shall have an en-
rollment of not less than thirty bona fide high school
pupils, and an average daily attendance of not less than
twenty-five pupils; (b) they shall employ not less than
two full-time academic teachers for the high school work;
(c) they shall provide a four years' course of instruc-
tion of not less than one hundred and eighty actual school
days in each year, the same to conform to the standards required
by the State Board of Education. High schools of the second
group shall fulfill the following minimum requirements: (a)
they shall have an enrollment of not less than fifteen
bona fide high school pupils, and an average daily attend-
ance of at least twelve pupils; (b) they shall employ one
full-time teacher of the academic branches; (c) they shall
provide a two years' course of instruction of not less than
one hundred and eighty actual school days in each year, the
same to conform to the standard required by the State Board
of Education.

No promotion of pupils from grade to grade in any approved
high school shall be made without the approval of the county
superintendent of schools; nor shall any pupils be graduated