1158 ARTICLE 27.

said city shall not be less than a sum sufficient to provide for the number of
white male minors committed from said counties or said city, based upon
the previous year's certification by the Board of Managers of the Maryland
Training School for Boys to the said counties and said city; and the Board
of County Commissioners of said counties and the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore shall pay unto the State Treasurer at the end of each quarter
of the calendar year an amount equal to the sum of forty-five dollars
($45.00) for each white male minor committed to the care and training of
the Maryland Training School for Boys, and the sum of sis dollars and
twenty-five cents ($6.25), for each male minor paroled and under the
supervision and control of the Maryland Training School for Boys, multi-
plied by the number of white male minors certified to the Comptroller of
the State by the Board of Managers of the Maryland Training School for
Boys, on the first days of January, April, July and October, respectively,
in each year. Any balance from said levy at the end of the year shall revert
to the Treasury of said counties or said city, and any deficiency, if any, shall
be included in the next succeeding levy and forthwith paid into the State
Treasury. Should any county or the City of Baltimore fail to levy a tax in
said county or city for said amount when due said State, and shall fail at
the time of levying other county or city taxes thereafter, to levy the tax
aforesaid, to an amount sufficient to pay the indebtedness subsequently
incurred, it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to bring in the name
of the State an action against any said county, in the Circuit Court for said
county, or against the City of Baltimore, in the Superior Court of Balti-
more City, so failing aforesaid, to enforce the levying of said tax, for the re-
covery of the amount due the State, as aforesaid. Upon the failure of any
county or the City of Baltimore to levy such tax as aforesaid to an amount
sufficient to pay the amount then due the State, it shall be the duty of the
State Comptroller to charge such delinquent county or said city with a pen-
alty of interest at one per cent per month upon the amount of indebtedness
for each month until payment thereof and penalty thereon be paid. It shall
be the duty of the County Treasurer and the Mayor and the City Council of
Baltimore, upon the collection of the taxes herein required to be levied, to
pay unto the State Treasurer the amount due and owing from said county or
city at the time and in the manner required for the payment of State taxes
collected, and the State Treasurer and the State Comptroller shall, upon
the first day of July and January, in each year, transfer the full amount
received from the counties and the City of Baltimore, under the provisions
of this Article, to the account of the Maryland Training School for Boys,
Taxes levied and collected in any county or the City of Baltimore for the
purpose named in this Article, shall be used to defray the expenses of the
white male minors committed to the Maryland Training School for Boys,
or paroled, and under the control of said school and shall not be diverted
to any other purpose, nor be transferred to any other fund by the State,
city or county authorities. Whenever the Board of Managers of the Mary-
land Training School for Boys holds a white male minor as from one county
or the City of Baltimore, or the County Commissioners of such county or
the Mayor and City Council of the City of Baltimore makes claim that