CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1309

certified to by him, that is due the said Montrose School for Girls from
the several counties and the City of Baltimore, having white female
minors chargeable thereto, and the said Comptroller shall pass the same
to the credit of the Montrose School for Girls. The State Comptroller
shall thereupon notify the County Treasurer of each county, and the
Comptroller of the City of Baltimore, respectively, so owing, of the amount
thereof and charge the same to said county or the City of Baltimore, 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
required to levy annually upon the assessable property of each of said
counties and said city, respectively, an amount equal to one hundred and
eighty dollars ($180.00) for each white female minor committed to the
care and training of the Montrose School for Girls from said 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 white female minor committed from
said counties and said city, to the care and training of the Montrose
School for Girls, but who have been paroled and 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 white female minors committed from said counties or said
city, based upon the previous year's certification by the Board of Man-
agers of the Montrose School for Girls to the said counties and said city;
and the Board of County Commissioners of said counties and the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore shall pay unto the State Treasurer at the
end of each quarter of the calendar year an amount equal to the sum of
forty-five dollars ($45.00) for each white female minor committed to the
care and training of the Montrose School for Girls, and the sum of six
dollars and twenty-five cents ($6.25) for each white female minor paroled
and under the supervision and control of the Montrose School for Girls,
multiplied by the number of white female minors certified to the Comp-
troller of the State by the Board of Managers of the Montrose School
for Girls, 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 said city and any deficiency,
if any, shall be included in the next succeeding levy and forthwith paid
into the State Treasury. 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 levy other county or city taxes there-
after, to levy the tax aforesaid to an amount sufficient to pay the indebted-
ness subsequently incurred, 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 afore-
said. Upon the 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 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