606                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 372

tion 284G thereof, providing for the administration of scholar-
ships in education by the State Scholarship Board, for the deter-
mination of financial need as a prerequisite to the receipt of schol-
arships in education, establishing allowable annual quotas of schol-
arships and overall maximum numbers of scholarships for each
county and each legislative district of the City of Baltimore under
the program of scholarships in education and under the General
State Scholarship Program, in order to reflect increases or de-
creases in the membership of the two houses of the General
Assembly which have been or may be occasioned by reapportion-
ment thereof, providing for the filling of vacancies under the
General State Scholarship Program, the program of scholarships
in education and the Senatorial Scholarship Program, providing
for the transfer of appointments to senatorial scholarships and
providing generally for a program of scholarships in education
and a General State Scholarship Program under the administra-
tion of the State Scholarship Board.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 284 and 284G (e) of Article 77 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1957 Edition and 1962 Supplement), title "Public
Education", sub-titles respectively "Chapter 27. Free Scholarships"
and "Chapter 27A. State Scholarship Board", be and they are hereby
repealed; that Sections 284C and 284G (c) of the said Article and
sub-titles respectively of the Code (1962 Supplement), be and they
are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments; that new
Section 284H be and it is hereby added to the said Article of the
Code (1962 Supplement), sub-title "Chapter 27A. State Scholarship
Board", to follow immediately after Section 284G thereof, and all to
read as follows:

284C. A member of the General Assembly or other appointing
authority entitled to award a scholarship or designate the recipient
of a scholarship appointment, under any of the provisions of this
sub-title or elsewhere in this article, shall make such award or desig-
nation, on or before July 1 of each year, or by agreement with
another member of the General Assembly or other appointing
authority may transfer such right of appointment to such other
member or other appointing authority who shall exercise such
appointment right by said date; and the appointing member or
authority shall notify the recipient of the scholarship appointment
and the educational institution concerned of such appointment by
said date. If such scholarship appointee shall not be accepted for
admission because of a failure to meet the academic or admission
standards of such educational institution, or shall withdraw from
enrollment in such educational institution, or shall be dropped or
dismissed from enrollment therein for academic reasons or for
failure to observe the rules and regulations of such educational
institution, or a vacancy in a scholarship occurs for any reason, on
or after July 1, the educational institution concerned shall promptly
notify the appointing member or authority with respect thereto and
such appointing member or authority shall be entitled to appoint
another qualified applicant for the scholarship within thirty (30)
days after receipt of such notice from such educational institution
[, for the remainder of the scholarship term awarded to the previous
scholarship appointee].