608                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 372

scholarship shall be awarded from a state-wide list, and, in either
event, the award shall be made under the same requirements that
apply to an original award.

284H. (a) The General Assembly of Maryland declares there is
a wide and continuing need for new and additional teachers in the
public school system of this State, that these needs have not been
fully met and without a new and fresh approach may not be satis-
factorily solved, and that the scholarships in education herein pro-
vided will attract additional young people to the teaching profession
and thus aid in the solution of a pressing and serious problem facing
the people of this State.

(b)  In addition to any other scholarships that may be awarded or
provided for under other provisions of this Article, there shall be a
program for scholarships in education under the provisions of this
section. Eligible institutions shall be those private colleges in the
State whose teacher training curricula are approved by the State
Department of Education.

(c)  In order to take part in the program, the several eligible in-
stitutions shall cooperate with the State Scholarship Board and the
State Department of Education each year in the preparation of an
examination to be administered to each applicant in that year for a
scholarship in education. The State Scholarship Board is authorized
and empowered from, time to time to adopt and promulgate reason-
able rules and regulations covering the time and place or places for
giving the examination and also other details not herein specified.
The examination papers shall be graded by the State Scholarship
Board.

(d)  From the examination papers which are graded with a
passing mark in any year, the State Scholarship Board shall certify
each year a number of applicants for scholarships in accordance with
the allowable annual quota for each county and each legislative
district of Baltimore City. The allowable annual quota for each
county and each legislative district of Baltimore City shall be de-
termined each year by the State Scholarship Board and shall consist
of that number of scholarships which is equal to the combined
membership from that county or legislative district in the two houses
of the General Assembly at its session next preceding the making
of awards, or concurrent therewith if the General Assembly be in
session when such awards are made, increased or decreased by such
number of scholarships as is required, by reason of the filling of
vacancies, to insure that the overall maximum number of scholar-
ships for each county and legislative district shall not be exceeded.
The total number of scholarships awarded and outstanding, including
those awarded to fill vacancies, shall not exceed a combined overall
maximum number in each county and legislative district equal to
the sum of the combined membership from that county or legislative
district in the two houses of the General Assembly during the most
current successive year in which awards shall be made and the
preceding three years. The scholarships so awarded shall be to those
qualified applicants who received the highest grades in their re-
spective county or legislative district. If any applicant so certified
shall refuse or for any reason be unable to accept and use the scholar-
ship in education, the next applicant on the graded list (provided
always that he has a passing grade) shall be certified. If in any