AET. 77] SOURCES OF INCOME——INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. 1753

county the schools shall be kept open leas 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 hereinbe-
fore provided for, the comptroller shall withhold from said county the
March instalment of the state school tax; that the provisions of this
section 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 its
teachers a minimum salary of two hundred dollars per year.
See art. 19, sec. 35.

1904, art. 77, sec. 132. 1888, art. 77, sec. 104. 1878, ch. 91. 1904, ch. 584.

139. In making the apportionments required by the preceding sec-
tion, it shall be the duty of the comptroller to equalize as far as may
be possible the sums to be apportioned, so as to 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
schools, and also the appropriation for the colored normal school, the
salary of the state superintendent of public education, the salary of
the clerk of the state superintendent of public education, and the
expenses of the state board of education.

Ibid. sec. 133. 1888, art. 77, sec. 105. 1872, ch. 377.

140. When the levy of any year shall have been collected the comp-
troller shall apportion among the several counties and the city of Balti-
more the amount allowed on the levy for insolvencies and abatements
and shall transmit a statement of the same to the state board of educa-
tion.

Ibid. sec. 134. 1888, art. 77, sec. 106. 1882, ch. 429.

141. The treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, shall annu-
ally pay on the first day of April to the school commissioners of Anne
Arundel county the sum of four hundred dollars as an academy fund
in addition to the appropriation now received by them for such pur-
pose, the said sum when received by said commissioners to be paid to
the trustees of Anne Arundel county academy.

Industrial Schools in the Counties.

Ibid. sec. 139. 1898, ch. 273, sec. 5. 1910, ch. 210, sec. 139 (p. 232).

142. It shall be the duty of board of county school commissioners
of each county in this State, whenever a suitable building or room, or
rooms, connected with one of the colored schools of said county shall be
provided by the county, to accept the same, if, in the judgment of the
board of county school commissioners, there is any necessity therefor,
and thereafter to provide for the maintenance of such colored industrial
school or schools where instruction shall be given daily in domestic
science and such industrial arts as may be outlined by the county school