62                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 41

It shall also be the duty of the State Board of Education, on and with
the advice of the State Superintendent of Schools, to prepare, from
time to time, as it may be deemed wise, bills, and to recommend the
same to the Governor and the General Assembly, providing for
changes in the appropriation for special educational purposes and
activities and in the total amount raised and contributed by the State
for the encouragement and support of public education.

42.

The State Superintendent of Schools shall prepare, or cause to be
prepared, and submit for approval and adoption by the State Board
of Education, courses of study for the different grades and kinds of
elementary schools [,] and high schools [and normal schools,] and
also college courses for teachers.

46.

The State Department of Education shall hereafter be provided
with professional assistants as in this section provided. Such pro-
fessional assistants as are employed at the time this section shall take
effect shall be eligible for reappointment to the positions which they

now hold:

(1) A deputy State superintendent of schools who shall represent
the State Superintendent of Schools in the latter's absence and who

shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by the

State Superintendent el Schools.

(2) An assistant State superintendent of schools, who shall have
charge of the office of the department, in the correspondence, publi-
cations, records, reports, and educational and financial statistics;
shall audit the accounts of the county boards of education, and shall

perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by the State

Superintendent el Schools.

(3) An assistant State superintendent of schools who shall have

immediate supervision of a division of higher education in the De-

partment, whose duty it shall be to carry out the responsibilities of

the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Schools
pertaining to higher education, public and private, and to otherwise

shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by the

State Superintendent.

[(3)] (4) A supervisor of high schools, who shall have supervision
of State aided high schools, shall aid the instructors in all other
schools above the seventh grade and shall perform such other duties
as may be assigned to him by the State Superintendent of Schools.

[(4)] (5) And such other clerical and professional assistants and
agents as may be authorized by the State Board of Education within
the limits of the appropriation for the State Department of Educa-

tion.

215.

(b) The Comptroller shall charge against and pay as hereinbefore
or hereinafter provided from the general State school fund, the an-