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	aforesaid ; provided, that no payment of said tax shall be made to any county or the city of Balti- more until after the organization of the several Boards of County School Commissioners under this law.
Abatements.	Sec. 8. When the levy of any year shall have been collected, the Comptroller shall apportion among the several counties and the city of Balti- more the amount allowed on the levy for insol- vencies and abatements, and shall transmit a statement of the same to the Trustees of the State Normal School.
Repealed.	Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That all the sections of the several Articles of the Code of Public General and Local Laws relating to schools, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, and all Acts of Assembly passed since the adoption of said volumes of the Code, relating to schools, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
Time to take effect.	Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That this law shall take effect on the first day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight ; provided, nevertheless, that the schools now in operation may be continued under existing authorities until their successors are duly appointed and qualified. Approved March 30, 1868.