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 | | Comm unications.Tide-water Maryland is afforded rather unusual facilities of water transportation by the Chesapeake Bay, with its deep channel, numerous deep inlets, and navigable tributaries, together with the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, which ci-osses the state of Delaware and connects its waters with those of the Delaware river and bay. |
 | | In the colonial era Maryland had an interesting list of governmental subdivisionsthe manor, the hundred, the parish, the county, and the citybut the two last are about all that remain and even these are in considerable measure subject to the special local acts of the General Assembly. |
 | | The state board is composed of the governor as its president, the state superintendent as its secretary, six other members appointed by the governor for a term of six years, and, as ex-officio members without the right to vote, the principals of the state and other normal schools. |
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