1310 ARTICLE 27

Treasurer and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, upon the col-
lection 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 Baltimore, under the provisions of this Article,
to the account of the Montrose School for Girls. Taxes levied and col-
lected in any county or the City of Baltimore for the purpose named in
this Article, shall be used only to defray the expenses of the white female
minors committed to the Montrose School for Girls, 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 authori-
ties. Whenever the Board of Managers of the Montrose School for Girls
holds a white female 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 white female 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 white female 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 white female minor is a proper charge against some other county or
the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, 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 notifica-
tion and thereupon it shall be the duty of the State Comptroller to investi-
gate the question, of the residence of such white female minor and to
determine of what county or the City of Baltimore, as the case may be,
said white female 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 Montrose
School for Girls, and the State Comptroller, and the bounties and City
of Baltimore, as aforesaid, shall thereafter treat and regard such white
female minor as of the county or city, as the case may be, according
to the determination of the State Comptroller, and if the State Comp-
troller shall find that such white female minor is not a proper charge
against any county or the City of Baltimore, in the State, such white
female minor shall thereafter be regarded as a proper charge against the
State at large.

An Code, 1924, sec. 633. 1912, sec. 594. 1904, sec. 531. 1888, sec. 373. 1866, ch. 156. 1870,
ch. 391. 1872, ch. 218. 1880, ch. 173.

728. The directors of said institution shall have, as to female juvenile
delinquents, all the powers and fulfill all the duties had and fulfilled by the
Board of Managers of the Maryland Training School for Boys; and the
provisions of sections 714, 715, and 716 shall be applicable to this institu-
tion throughout the State.