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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

to the credit of the free school fund from the interest on stocks
standing to the credit of said fund, or from other sources; also
the sum of thirty-four thousand and sixty-nine dollars and
thirty-six cents, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, and to be placed to the credit of the free
school fund, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of
the December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine,
Chapter 33, and substituted for the interest on the surplus
revenue, as provided in said Act; provided, that the sum of
one hundred and sixty thousand dollars of the receipts from
the public school tax shall be distributed to colored schools
after deducting the amount payable to the Colored Normal
School, and the balance of said receipts shall be distributed to
the white schools, the State Normal School for whites, and the
State Board of Education, in the proportions to which they are
respectively entitled; for donations to colleges, academies
and schools, as set forth in Acts and Resolutions of the General
Assembly, heretofore passed, forty-four thousand five hun-
dred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; pro-
vided, that none of the appropriations to colleges, academies
and schools shall be paid to any of said institutions excepting
to such as shall have made a full report, as required by Sec-
tion seventeen of Article 77 of the Code of Public General
Laws; for the instruction of the indigent blind, to be applied
under the direction of the Governor, in accordance with the
provisions of the Act of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
Chapter two hundred and five, as amended by the Acts of
nineteen hundred, twenty-one thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary.

CONTINGENT FUNDS.

Contingent
funds.

For the contingent fund placed at the disposal of the Gov-
ernor by Article 3, Section thirty-two of the Constitution, ten
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary;
and one thousand two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, to be used for the salary of a stenographer
and typewriter; six hundred dollars to pay the salary of a
janitor of the Court of Appeals, who shall serve also as assist-
ant janitor and keeper of water closets; for the contingent
fund of the Treasury Department, for advertising, stationery,
blanks, books, expressage, telegrams and other incidental ex-
penses, twenty-five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary; for the contingent fund of the Comptroller's office,
for prin ting blanks, licenses, protests, circulars, warrants, books
and other office expenses, three thousand dollars, or so much