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school supplies; such special appropriations to be known as an Equaliza-
tion Fund, as may, from time to time, be made by Budget Bill or Sup-
plementary Appropriation Bill, to the county boards of education of cer-
tain counties to enable them to pay the minimum salaries prescribed in
this Article for county superintendents, supervising teachers and helping
teachers, high school and elementary school teachers, and teachers in
colored schools; provided, that the board of county commissioners of each
of the several counties sharing in the Equalization Eund shall levy and
collect an annual tax for the schools of not less than sixty-seven (67) cents
on each one hundred dollars ($100) of assessable property, exclusive of
the amount levied for debt service and capital outlay for the schools;
provided, further, that in any county, all funds which the county board
of education may be authorized to expend for the schools, other than State
appropriations, and exclusive of the amount authorized to be expended
for debt service and capital outlay, may, for the purposes of the above
proviso, be considered as levied by the board of county commissioners,
irrespective of the source or sources from which such funds may be derived;
and provided, further, that the county board of education in each of the
several counties sharing in the Equalization Fund shall expend no less
than twenty-four per centum (24%) of the total budget, not including
debt service and capital outlay, for purposes other than teachers' salaries.
But no special appropriation to any county, except as heretofore in this
section provided, or to any academy, or to any college or university may
be paid from the General State School Fund.

For a case now apparently inapplicable by reason of changes in the law, see
Shriver v. Hering, 97 Md. 20.
See art. 19, sec. 36.

An. Code, sec. 135. 1904, sec. 128. 1888, sec. 100. 1872, ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584.

205. A state tax of fifteen cents on each one hundred dollars of tax-
able property throughout the State shall be levied annually for the sup-
port 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.
Although a new board of county school commissioners has been appointed, as
long as old board is in office, the money should be paid over to latter, and courts
will lend them their aid. School Commissioners v. School Commissioners, 77 Md.
290. (See sec. 56.)
As to the state tax levy, see art. 81, sec. 30; see also art. 81, sec. 52.

An. Code, sec. 136. 1904, sec. 129. 1888, sec. 101. 1872, ch. 377. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 136.

206. Such appropriations as are made by the General Assembly for
the payment of the expenses of the state board of education and for the
support and expenses of the office of the state superintendent of schools
shall be paid each year in equal instalments on the first day of January,
March, June and October, to the treasurer of the state board of education.
On or before said dates the Comptroller shall draw his warrant on the
Treasurer of the State of Maryland for the respective amounts due on
said dates to the Treasurer of the State Board of Education. On the receipt