CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1299

of each year, the amount not previously certified to by him that is due the
said Cheltenham School for Boys from the several counties and the City
of Baltimore, having colored male minors chargeable thereto, and the said
Comptroller shall pass the same to the credit of the Cheltenham School
for Boys. The State Comptroller shall thereupon notify the County Trea-
surer of each county, and the Comptroller of the City of Baltimore, re-
spectively, so owing, of the amount thereof and charge the same to said
county or the City of Baltimore, as the case niay be. And the Board of
County Commissioners of each county, and the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore are hereby authorized and required to levy annually upon
the assessable property of each of said counties and said city respectively,
an amount equal to two hundred dollars ($200.00) for each colored male
minor committed to the care and training of the Cheltenham School for
Boys from sard counties and said city, as the case may be; and the Board
of County Commissioners of each county, and the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore, are hereby authorized and directed to levy annually upon
the assessable property of each of said counties and said city, respectively,
an amount equal to twenty-five dollars ($25.00), for each colored male
minor committed from said counties and said City, to the care and train-
ing of the Cheltenham School for Boys, but who has been paroled and is
under its supervision and control. The total amount of annual tax levied
by the said counties and said city shall not be less than a sum sufficient
to provide for the number of colored male minors committed from said
counties or said City, based upon the previous year's certification by the
Board of Managers of the Cheltenham School for Boys to the said counties
and said city; and the Board of County Commissioners of said counties
and Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall pay unto the State Trea-
surer at the end of each quarter of the calendar year an amount equal to
the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) for each colored male minor committed
to the care and training of the Cheltenham School for Boys, and the sum
of six dollars and twenty-five cents ($6.25), for each male minor paroled
and under the supervision and control of the Cheltenham School for Boys,
multiplied by the number of colored male minors certified to the Comp-
troller of the State by the Board of Managers of the Cheltenham School
for Boys, on the first days of January, April, July and October, respec-
tively, in each year. Any balance from said, levy at the end of the year
shall revert to the Treasury of said counties or city, and any deficiency, if
any, shall be included in the next succeeding levy and forthwith paid into
the State Treasury.

1937, ch. 70, sec. 611k.

706. 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 in-
curred, 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
Baltimore City, so failing aforesaid, to enforce the levying of said tax,
for the recovery of the amount due the State, as aforesaid. Upon 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