EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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100. A State tax of fifteen cents on each one hundred

State school

dollars of taxable property throughout the State shall be

tax.

levied annually for the support of free public schools, which

tax shall be collected at the same time and by the same agents

as the general State levy, and shall be paid into the Treasury

of the State, to be distributed by the Treasurer to the Board of

School Commissioners of the City of Baltimore and the several

counties.

103. On the first day of January, the fifteenth day of March,

the fifteenth day of June, and the first day of October, in

each year, the Comptroller shall apportion the amount of

To apportion

school tax received by the Treasurer among the several coun-

school tax

ties and the City of Baltimore, in proportion to the whole

among coun-
ties and Bal-

amount apportioned to each by the Comptroller ; and he shall

timore.

notify the State Board of Education and the Treasurer of the

several Boards of County School Commissioners of the coun-

ties and the City of Baltimore, on the several days aforesaid ;

and the Treasurer shall pay the several amounts within ten

days after said notification, upon the draft of the president

and secretary of the several Boards of County School Commis-

sioners aforesaid ; provided, also, that if in any county the schools

shall be kept open less than nine months of the year ending

December 31, or any white teacher regularly employed receiv-

ing an annual salary of less than three hundred dollars, as

hereinbefore provided for, the Comptroller shall withhold

from said county the March instalment of the State school

tax ; that the provisions of Section 103 of this Act shall apply

to Garrett County only in so far as to oblige that county

to keep its schools open seven and one-half months, and pay

Applies to Gar-
rett County.

its teachers a minimum salary of two hundred dollars per year.

104. In making the apportionments required by the preced-

ing section, it shall be the duty of the Comptroller to equalize

as far as may be possible the sums to be apportioned, so as to

Equalizing

funds.

apportion and distribute the same amount, as far as may be

practicable, on each of said days ; and until otherwise expressly

directed by law, the Comptroller shall charge to said fund and

pay therefrom the annual appropriations that have been or

may hereafter continue to be made for said State Normal

School, and also the appropriation for the Colored Normal

School, the salary of the State Superintendent of Public Edu-

cation, the salary of the clerk of the State Superintendent of

Public Education, and the expenses of the State Board of

Education.