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counties and the City of Baltimore; the annual appropriation for payment
by the State of the entire salary of one attendance officer in each of the
several counties and the City of Baltimore; the annual appropriation for
the purchase of text books, materials of instruction and school supplies;
such special appropriations to be known as an Equalization Fund, as may
from time to time, be made by Budget Bill or Supplementary Appropria-
tion Bill, to the county boards of education of certain counties to enable
them to pay the minimum salaries prescribed in this Article for county
superintendents, supervising teachers and helping teachers, high school and
elementary school teachers, and teachers in colored schools, and the neces-
sary 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 fifty-one (51) 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 appropriations, 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 provided, 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 author-
ized in this section, debt service and capital outlay, for purposes other than
teacher's 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.

Colored teacher not entitled to injunction to prevent enforcement of allegedly dis-
criminatory law relating to salaries of white and colored teachers. Mills v. Lowndes,
26 F. Supp. 792.

For a case now apparently inapplicable by reason of changes in the law, see Shriver v.
Hering, 97 Md. 20.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 205. 1912, sec. 135. 1904, sec. 128. 1888, sec. 100. 1872, ch. 377.

1904, ch. 584.

197. A state tax of fifteen cents on each one hundred dollars of tax-
able property throughout the State shall be levied annually for the sup-
port of free public schools, which tax shall be collected at the same time
and by the same agents as the general State levy, and shall be paid into
the treasury of the State to he distributed by the treasurer to the board
of school commissioners of the city of Baltimore and the several counties.

As to levy of taxes for educational purposes, see art. 81, sec. 62.

Although a new board of county school commissioners has been appointed, as long
as old board is in office, the money should be paid over to latter, and courts will lend
them their aid. School Commissioners v. School Commissioners, 77 Md. 290. (See sec. 56.)

An. Code, 1924, sec. 206. 1912, sec. 136. 1904, sec. 129. 1888, sec. 101. 1872, ch. 377.

1916, ch. 506, sec. 136.

198. Such appropriations as are made by the General Assembly for
the payment of the expenses of the state board of education and for the
support and expenses of the office of the state superintendent of schools