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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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 and 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, 1839, Chapter

63, and substituted for the interest on the surplus revenue,

as provided in said Act ; provided that the sum of one hundred

and fifty 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 Edu-

cation in the proportions to which they are respectively en-

titled; for donations to colleges, academies and schools, as

set forth in Acts and Resolutions 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 colleges, academies and schools shall

For the in-

be paid to any of said institutions except to such as may have

struction of
the indigent

made a full report, as required by Section 17 of Article 77

blind.

of the Code of Public General Laws ; for the instruction of the

indigent blind, to be applied under the direction of the Gov-

ernor, in accordance with the provisions of the Acts of 1868,

Chapter 205, as amended by the Acts of 1904, twenty-one thou-

sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

CONTINGENT FUNDS.

Contingent

For the contingent fund placed at the disposal of the Gov-

funds.

ernor by Article 3, Section 32, of the Constitution, ten thou-

sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary ; for the

contingent fund of the Treasury Department, for advertising,

stationery, blanks, books, expressage, telegrams and other in-

cidental expenses, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof

as may be necessary; for the contingent fund of the Comp-

troller's office, for printing blank licenses, protests, circulars,

warrants, books and other office expenses, four thousand dol-

lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary ; for the contin-

gent fund of the State Tax Commissioner's office, for printing

blanks, circulars, stationery, books and postage, fifteen hun-

dred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for the