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city with a penalty 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
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 Balti-
more, under the provisions of this Article, to the account of the Chelten-
ham 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 colored male minors committed to the Cheltenham
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 Man-
agers of the Cheltenham School for Boys holds a colored 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 such colored male minor is not a proper charge against
the said county or the City of Baltimore, and such County Commissioners
or the Mayor and City Council of the City of Baltimore, shall notify the
State Comptroller that it is claimed that such colored male minor is not
a proper charge against their county or the City of Baltimore, as the case
may be, and shall claim that the said colored male minor is a proper charge
against some other county or the City of Baltimore, as the case may be,
it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners of each of said counties
or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as the case may be, to file such
proofs as they may have with the State Comptroller within thirty days from
the time of such notification and thereupon it shall be the duty of the State
Comptroller to investigate the question of the residence of such colored male
minor and to determine of what county or the City of Baltimore, as the
case may be, said colored male minor is a proper charge and shall thereupon
notify the said counties or the City of Baltimore as the case may be of such
determination and shall notify the Board of Managers of the Cheltenham
School for Boys, and the State Comptroller, and the counties and City of
Baltimore, as aforesaid, shall thereafter treat and regard such colored male
minor as of the county or city, as the case may be, according to the deter-
mination of the State Comptroller, and if the State Comptroller shall find
that such colored male minor is not a proper charge against any county
or the City of Baltimore, in the State, such colored male minor shall there-
after be regarded as a proper charge against the State at large.

Maryland Training School for Boys.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 612. 1918, ch. 300, sec. 1.

707. From and after the acquisition by the State of Maryland from the
Maryland School for Boys, a corporation of this State, of the property here-
tofore held, conducted and managed by said corporation as a reformatory
institution for the care and training of white male minors committed thereto
under the provisions of the Laws of this State, the same shall continue
under the name of the Maryland Training School for Boys to be conducted
as a public agency of this State for the care and reformation of white male