1160 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 554
CHAPTER 554.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
236 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
(1924 Edition), title "Public Education, " sub-title "Mis-
cellaneous, " as amended by Chapter 159 of the laws of
1931, for the purpose of including the State normal
school at Salisbury, of changing the names of the state
normal schools which offer four-year courses to state
teachers' colleges, and of changing the title of the prin-
cipals of such institutions to "president. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 236 of Article 77 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, 1924 Edition, title "Public Education, "
sub-title "Miscellaneous, " as amended by Chapter 159 of
the laws of 1931, be, and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

236. Wherever the words "superintendent of public
education" occur in this article, they shall be construed to
mean State Superintendent of Schools; wherever the
words "board of county school commissioners" occur, they
shall be construed to mean "county board of education";
wherever the words "board of district school trustees" oc-
cur, they shall be construed to mean "district board of school
trustees"; wherever the words "handicapped children" oc-
cur, they shall be construed to mean "all children between
the ages of six and eighteen years, inclusive, who, because
of mental or physical handicap, are incapable of receiving
proper benefit from ordinary public school instruction and
who, for their own or the social welfare, need special public
school instruction or training"; wherever the words the
state normal school at Towson, the state normal school at
Frostburg, and the state normal school at Bowie occur in
this article, they shall be construed to mean the state nor-
mal at Towson, the state normal school at Frostburg, the
state normal school at Salisbury, and the state normal school
at Bowie; wherever the words "state normal school" occur
in this article to designate a school which maintains a four-
year course of study, they shall be construed to mean
"state teachers college"; and wherever the term "princi-
pal" occurs in this article to designate the head of a normal
school which maintains a four-year course of study, it shall
be construed to mean "president of a state teachers
college. "