The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-12-25
CHAPTER II.
State Normal School.

CHAFIEh Ill.
State Normal School.
Section |. There shall be located in the city
of Baltimore State Normal School for the in
struction and practice of teachers in the science
of education, the art of teaching anu the mode
of governing schools For the government of
the Nornsl School and the election of the Prin-
cipal AM Professors thereof, the Governor
shall nominate and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, appoint at the present session of
the General Assembly of Maryland, and at ev-
cry regular session thereafter, three persons, to
be styled the Board of Trustees Of the Maryland
State Normal School; said Board shall elect q
Treasurer, who shall also be the Secretary, at q
salary of $500 per annum, who shall give bond
in such amount as the Board may direct. The
Principal Of said school shall receive salary of
So, 500 per annum, payable quarterly, and the
professors and teachers of the Normal School
shall receive such salary as the Board may de-
eide.
Sec. 2. The sessions of the State Normal School
until otherwise provided for by the State, shall
be held in such building as the Trustees Of the
Normal School may select, the rent to be charg-
ed among the incidental expenses.
Sec. 8. The Faculty of the State Normal
School shall consist of the Principal and of two
male and two female Professors, who shall be
appointed by the Trustees of the State Normal
School, and to have such salaries and perform
such duties as said Board may direct and the
State Superintendent now acting under the sys-
tenn of public instruction about to expire by
Limitation of the Constitution, shall transfer all
school property and effects in his hands to the
said Principal..of the Normal School.
Sec. 4. The sessions Of the State Normal School
shall be determined by the Board of Trustees Of
the State Normal School; provided, that the
school year be open for not less than nine
months in each year.
Sec. s. Students of both sexes shall be ad-
mitted to the State Normal School females at
the age of sixteen years, and males at the age of
seventeen years. The students shall be appoint
ed by the Trustees of the State Normal School
among the several counties and the city of Bal
timore, in proportion to their respective repre-
sentation in the General Assembly Of the State.
The students shall be selected by the several
Boards of County School Commissioners and
the Board of Commissioners of Public Schools
of the city of Baltimore, from among persons
having the scholastic qualifications hereinbefore
required for teachers. Before any appointment
shall be made the applicants shall procure the
certificate of the County Examiner in testimony
of their scholastic proficiency, and shall also file
written declaration that their object in obtain
ing admission is to qualify themselves as public
school teachers and that it is their intention to
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State and in case any students shall fail to full.
fill the condition upon which they were admit
ted they shall forfeit and pay thirty dollars for
each session they have attended the Normal
School, to be collected as other debts are col
lected, and to be applied for the benefit of the
Normal School. If there be not applicants suf-
6cient from any county, or the city, then the
Principal Of the Normal School may fill all va.
cancies by selecting applicants possessing the
requisite qualifications from any other portion
of the State, in the proportion aforesaid.
Sec 6. In addition to the students admitted
from the counties and the city of Baltimore, who
shall enjoy all the privileges of the school, and
be furnished with the use ofthe textbooks free
Of charge, there may be admitted, in the proper
ton of one to two of the scholars selected by
the county and city Boards, other persons hav-
ing the requisite qualifications, who shall pay
the sum of twenty-five dollars per session, and
purchase their own textbooks, and be subject in
every respect to the same rules and regulations
as the other students provided that the num-
Der of students sent by the State shall not ex-
is not reached by the State, or after it shall have
been reached by the State, all remaining vacan-
cies may be filled by pay scholars to the full ca
pacity of the school.
Sec. Z. The Board of Trustees of the State
Normal School shall prescribe the course of
study and supervise the school in every particu-
lar not provided for in this law; they shall
make provision for model and experimental pri-
mary and grammar schools under qualified
teachers, in which tho student of the Normal
School shall have opportunity to practice the
modes of instruction and discipline inculAted
in the Normal School. The salaries of the teach
ers of the model and experimental schools shall
be paid in part from the tuition fees derived from
the pupils of said model schools.
Sec. 8. The annual sum of eight thousand
dollars is hereby appropriated for the support of
the Normal School, to be paid in quarterly in
stalments by the Treasurer on the warrant of
the Comptroller to the Board of Trustees of the
State Normal School, to be applied to the pay
ments Of salaries and the purchase of education