EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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ery for the children of the State ; if, however, in apportioning

the said school tax among the different counties and the City

of Baltimore, the share of any county should prove inadequate

for the purposes aforesaid, then the County Commissioners

of such county are hereby authorized, empowered, directed and

required to levy and collect such a tax upon the assessable

property of such county as the Board of County School Com-

missioners shall designate to make good the deficiency ; pro-

vided, that said tax shall not exceed fifteen cents on the hun-

dred dollars, unless the County Commissioners shall approve

and sanction an additional tax ; taxes so levied and collected

shall be paid quarterly, on the day fixed for payment of the

State school tax to the several counties (but the proceeds from

special taxes may be paid oftener, upon the order of the Board

of County School Commissioners to the treasurer of said

Board of County School Cmmissioners) in order that the

schools of said counties may be kept open for the time herein

set forth, and said tax shall be levied and collected as other

taxes ; any sums of money which may have been specially

collected or levied on any election or school house district

for educational purposes connected with these districts, shall

be collected for and applied to the purposes so intended orig-

Funds to be

inally, and shall be used for no other purpose ; and if said

applied to

funds have been used otherwise they shall be returned and

original
purposes.

applied as aforesaid.

24. The Board of County School Commissioners shall, on

or before the first day of September in every year, make a

Annual report
to State

report to the State Board of Education, in such form as may

Board.

be prescribed by the latter, of the schools and all matters

affecting the educational interests of the county; they shall

also publish annually, in the month of November, in such form

and manner as they may deem proper, a statement of their

receipts and disbursements, including the money received and

expended on account of text books, and a statement of the

indebtedness of the board at the close of the fiscal year, and the

items of expense of the individual schools, and forward a copy

to the State Board of Education.

27. The Board of District School Trustees shall have the

care of houses and lands connected therewith intended for

Care of school

school purposes, also furniture, apparatus and other school

houses, etc.

property; they shall attend to all repairs and charge the cost

among the incidental expenses of the school, to be paid out

of the tax levied upon the assessable property of the county