EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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the Comptroller to apportion to said county the instalment

known as the March instalment of the State school tax

for the year nineteen hundred and four; said instalment

being the apportionment made to said Garrett County on the

fifteenth day of March in each year.

WHEREAS, An instalment of State school tax amounting to

the sum of two thousand one hundred and twelve dollars and

State school

ninety-nine cents was withheld from Garrett County in the year

tax withheld.

nineteen hundred and three, and said county not being able to

keep open its schools for seven and a half months in the year, as

required by the school laws of the State, is by said law required

to forfeit the March instalment of said school tax for the year

nineteen hundred and three; the said county has been subject

to large expense in the erection of school houses, and the fact

that the small population is scattered over a large extent of

territory, creating a large number of school houses for the

number of pupils required to be taught therein; therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That the Comptroller be and he is hereby directed to

School funds.

issue his warrant upon the Treasurer of the State in favor

of the Board of County School Commissioners of Garrett

County for the sum of two thousand one hundred and twelve

dollars and ninety-nine cents; said sum, in addition to the

amount to which said county is entitled to receive, to be paid

out of the public school funds of the State under existing laws.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the Comptroller be and he is

hereby authorized and directed to apportion Garrett County

its proper proportion of said school tax for the year nineteen

hundred and four, known as the March instalment of said

school tax, to be made by the Comptroller in pursuance of law,

on the fifteenth day of March, in each year, in the same manner

as if the schools of Garrett County have been kept open

seven and one-half months in the year ending December

31, 1904.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Board of School

Commissioners shall apply the said sums so received by the

To be applied
to the support

provisions of this Act to the support of the public schools of

of public

schools.

said county in the same manner as the other portions of the

State school tax received by said county are intended to be

applied under the provisions of the existing laws of this State.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 3, 1904.