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troller, shall pay in the proportion required by section 208 of this Article,
after deductions are made as provided in section 204 of this Article, what
remains from the amount received to the credit of the General State School
Fund to the treasurer of the county boards of education of the several
counties and to the city of Baltimore. He shall equalize, as far as may be
possible, the sums to be paid on each of said days, and shall notify the
state superintendent of schools of said apportionment. Provided, that the
comptroller shall withhold from any county or from the City of Baltimore
any instalment from the General State School Fund on notification from
the state superintendent of schools that said county or City of Baltimore
is not complying with the provisions of this Article.

An. Code, sec. 140. 1904, sec. 133. 1888, sec. 105. 1872, ch. 377.

210. 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 education.

Chapter 20. Colored Industrial Schools.

An. Code, sec. 142. 1904, sec. 139. 1898, ch. 273, sec. 5. 1910, ch. 210, sec. 139 (p. 232).

1916, ch. 506, sec. 142.

211. It shall be the duty of the county board of education in each
county of the State, when in their judgment there is need thereof, to pro-
vide a suitable building or room, or rooms, connected with one of the
colored schools of said county, for the establishment of a central colored
industrial school, and to provide for the maintenance of such central col-
ored industrial school where instruction shall be given daily in domestic
science and in such industrial arts as may be determined by the county
board of education. One-half of the appropriation hereinafter provided
shall be used for the maintenance of such industrial school.
See sec. 200, et seq.; also sec. 256.

An. Code, sec. 143. 1904, sec. 140. 1898, ch. 273, sec. 6. 1910, ch. 210, sec. 140 (p. 232).

1916, ch. 506, sec. 143.

212. Whenever any such colored industrial school is opened in any
county the secretary of the county board of education shall report the fact
to the state superintendent of schools, and he, or an assistant designated
by him, shall visit the said school and shall give, if in his judgment it is
warranted, a certificate of approval of the conditions and the plan upon
which said industrial school is conducted, to the secretary of the county
board of education. The state superintendent of schools shall submit annu-
ally to the Comptroller of the treasury of the State on or before the last
day of September, a complete list of such schools as are entitled to receive
the special appropriation for industrial education.

An. Code, sec. 144. 1904, sec. 141. 1898, ch. 273, sec. 7. 1910, ch. 210, sec. 141 (p. 233).
1916, ch. 506, sec. 144. 1920, ch. 118, sec. 144.

213. The Comptroller, upon receiving the certificate of approval from
the State Superintendent of Schools, is hereby authorized and directed