For the system of free public schools (white and colored) in
the several counties and the City of Baltimore, and for the
State Normal School, and the State Board of Education, to be
apportioned by the Comptroller, in accordance with the laws
in such case made and provided, and the directions herein
given, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or what-
ever sum may be paid into the treasury on account of the tax
for public schools; also such other sum or sums as may be
received 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 provis-
ions of the Act of the December Session, eighteen hundred
and thirty-nine, Chapter thirty-three, and substituted for the
interest on the surplus revenue, as provided in said Act; pro-
vided, that the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lars of the receipts from the public school tax shall be dis-
tributed 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 propor-
tions to which they are respectively entitled; for donations to
colleges, academies and schools, as set forth in Acts and Reso-
lutions of the General Assembly heretofore passed, forty-four
thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary; provided, that none of the appropriations to col-
leges, academies and schools shall be paid to any of said insti-
tutions excepting to such as shall have made a full report
required by Section seventeen, of Article 77, of the Code of
Public General Laws, and for the instruction of the indigent
blind, to be applied under the direction of the Governor, in
accordance with the provisions of the Acts of eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-eight, Chapter two hundred and five, as
amended by the Acts of nineteen hundred, twenty -one thous-
and dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
CONTINGENT FUNDS.
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Schools.
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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;
one thousand and two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, to be used for the salary of a stenographer
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Contingent
funds.
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