PUBLIC EDUCATION. 991

superintendents, supervising teachers and helping teachers, high school
and elementary school teachers, and teachers in colored schools, and the
necessary costs of transporting pupils to public elementary schools and not
less than one-half of the cost of transportation of pupils to public high
schools when such transportation is approved by the State Superintendent

of Schools; provided, that the board of county commissioners of each of the
several counties sharing in the Equalization Fund shall levy and collect
an annual tax for the schools of not less than forty-seven (47) 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 appropria-
tions, 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 pro-
vided, 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 costs of
transportation as authorized in this section, 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.

. 205.

As to levy of taxes for educational purposes, see art. 81, sec. 59.
Chapter 20. Colored Industrial Schools.

1033, ch. 234.

214A. The funds for residence education now received by the Uni-
versity of Maryland from the Government of the United States under the
Morrill Act, now amounting: to $50, 000 per year, shall be divided on the
basis of the population of the State of Maryland as shown by the latest

census, so that a percentum of these funds equal to the percentum of the
negro population to the whole population of the State, shall be expended
by the Comptroller of the State, upon recommendation of the Regents of
the University of Maryland, for the benefit and in the interests of the
Princess Anne Academy.

The Board of Regents of the University of Maryland may allocate such
part of the state appropriation for Princess Anne Academy or other funds
of the Academy as may be by it deemed advisable, to establish partial
scholarships at Morgan College or at institutions outside of the State of
Maryland, for negro students who may apply for such privileges, and who
may, by adequate tests, be proved worthy to take professional courses or
such other work as is not offered in the said Princess Anne Academy, but