Excerpt from 40th Annual Meeting of the Maryland State Teachers' Association: Convention Hall of the "Inside Inn"; Jamestown Exposition, July 25th, 26th, 27th, 1907 The first act providing any State aid for these schools, which had then become quite numerous, influential and useful, was passed in 1798. It gave the following academies $800 each. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.