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 228 MARYLAND as may be appropriated by the state or given by individuals for that purpose, together with the taxes paid by tin.- colored people for school purposes. According to the report of the Mate hoard for the year ending Sept. 30, 1873, the number of public schools in operation Avas 1,74-J, including 225 for colored children ; num- ber of different pupils, 130,324 (14,171 col- ored); highest number enrolled in one term, 99,258 ; average daily attendance, 60,817 ; number of teachers, 2,555 ; average length of schools, 9 months and 13 days; amount paid for teachers' salaries, $889,476 47 ; for build- ing, repairing, and furnishing school houses, $197,887 10; for books and stationery, $69,- 526 29; for colored schools, $69,577 18; total expenditures for school purposes, $1,354,066 71, defrayed partly by a state tax of 10 cents on $100, partly by the income of the school fund, and partly by local taxation. The schools of the city of Baltimore included one college or male high school, two female high schools, and 40 grammar schools (one colored). A few high and grammar schools have been established in other parts of the state ; but the public schools are mostly elementary. The Baltimore city college had 10 instructors ; number of differ- ent pupils during the year, 470; average at- tendance, 282. The state normal school for the training of teachers was established in Baltimore by the school law of 1865, and its continued existence has been provided for by subsequent acts ; 200 pupils are entitled to be admitted free on the recommendation of the county or city school commissioners, upon de- claring their intention to engage in teaching in the state, and others may be received upon the payment of tuition. The number of instruc- tors in 1873 was 9 ; of pupils, 146, of whom 13 were males and 133 females; volumes in the library, 1,200. A model school is connected with it. The Howard normal school (colored), at Baltimore, was organized in 1865. It re- ceives a small appropriation from the state, but is supported mainly by donations. The number of pupils in 1873 in all departments (primary, grammar, and normal) was 234; average attendance, 186. The number in the normal department was 74; volumes in the library, 1,000. The number of academies re- ceiving state aid was 22, with 50 teachers and 1,257 pupils. According to the United States census of 1870, the number of schools of all kinds was 1,779, having 1,498 male and 1,789 female teachers, 55,800 male and 51,584 female pupils; income from endowment, $21,697; from taxation and public funds, $1,134,347; from other sources, including tuition, $842,- 171; total, $1,998,215. Of these, 1,487 (3 normal, 10 high, 49 grammar, 159 graded com- mon, and 1,266 ungraded common) were pub- lic, with 2,150 teachers, 83,226 pupils, and an income of $1,146,057, of which $1,039,135 was derived from taxation and public funds. Of those not public, 53 were classical (19 colleges and 34 academies), 7 professional (1 law, 2 med- ical, 4 theological), 12 technical (1 agricultural, 3 commercial, 1 for the blind, 1 for the deaf and dumb, 6 of art and music), 153 day and boarding, and 67 parochial and charity. The statistics of the principal colleges for 1873-'4 are exhibited in the following table : COLLEGES. Location. Denomination. Date of or- ganization. No.ofpro- fessorvte. Students. Volumei in libraries. Washington*... Chestertown None 1782 2 81 1.000 )>.- l.-ri.-k* Frederick None 17^ 11 180 4.HOO
 * ! i!it St. Mary's

t St James. St. Cli-.rles's*.... Knmu't t>l>iinr College of St. James P. O., Washing- ton CO. Ellicott City Eoman Catholic.. Episcopal Roman Catholic 1S30 1MJ 1S48 13 6 12 182 41 180 8,000 11.000 4 i'0't l/.vol.i* Clement's Baltimore.. Ilchester Eoman Catholic.. !STi-> i --v; 15 14 140 100 21.600 9 000 i:.i.-k Hill Kllicott City Maryland Agricultural*... Agricultural College P. O., Prince George's co None... 1S65 9 180 Western Maryland Westminster Roman Catholic.. Methodist Prot... 1867 1868 14 18 102 181 ' 8.500 These institutions, besides courses of collegiate grade, have preparatory departments, which embrace^ a large portion of the students. Mount St. Mary's college has a theological de- partment, with 34 students not embraced in the number given in the table. St. Charles's college is regarded as a preparatory institution to the theological seminary of St. Sulpice and Bt ftfuy'l university at Baltimore (which in 1 978 '1 li.-i'l f, pr,,fV-ors and 60 students), and i- 1 -Lnuvl only for those who aiv intended f-T til- church. The Western Maryland college has a three years' course for females, with an at- tendance of 61 students included in the number given in the table, and gives special instruction to young men intended for the ministry. The college of St. James since the civil war has had only a high school or preparatory department in operation. Woodstock college is devoted exclusively to the education of the younger members of the society of Jesus, and em- braces a three years' course of philosophy and a four years' course of theology ; 42 of the students in 1873-'4 were pursuing the former cour>e and 00 the latter. Six state scholarships have been established in St. John's college for each >enatorial district, exempting the holder from payment of room rent and tuition fees, and