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tions of the State Board of Education to meet the needs of any child
whose handicap is physical only and whose needs are not met by ordinary
school facilities, the city or counties so providing the same shall be entitled
to receive, toward the cost of teachers, special equipment, nursing, thera-
peutic treatment and transportation, an amount not to exceed two hundred
dollars ($200.00) per child, to be paid by the State of Maryland out of
a special fund to be appropriated for such purpose in the State Public
School Budget. The State Superintendent of Schools shall ascertain the
respective amounts the City of Baltimore and the counties shall be so
entitled to receive from the State under this section, and when such amounts
are so ascertained, the State Superintendent of Schools shall certify the
same to the State Comptroller.

1929, ch. 152, sec. 235C.

230. It shall be the duty of the State Comptroller, upon receipt of
each such certificate from the State Board of Education, as provided for in
Section 229 hereof, to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer, payable
to such Board of School Commissioners, and for such sum as may be shown
in such certificates, such warrants to be payable out of any available funds
appropriated for that purpose, and the State Treasurer shall thereupon
make payment accordingly; provided, however, that if there be not suffi-
cient funds available to fully pay all such warrants, such funds as are so
available shall be pro-rated amongst all such warrants in the proportion
that the amount of each such warrant bears to the total amount of all such
warrants, and the deficiency shall thereafter be made up when and as
funds may be available therefor.

Miscellaneous.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 236. 1912, sec. 173. 1904, sec. 169. 1904, ch. 584, sec. 2. 1916, ch. 506,
sec. 173. 1929, ch. 152, sec. 236. 1931, ch. 159, sec. 236. 1935, ch. 554.

231. Wherever the words "superintendent of public education" occur
in this sub-title, they shall be construed to mean State Superintendent of
Schools; wherever the words "board of county school commissioners"
occur, they shall be construed to mean "county board of education";
wherever the words "board of district school trustees" occur, they shall be
construed to mean "district board of school trustees" ; wherever the words
"handicapped children" occur, they shall be construed to mean "all chil-
dren between the ages of six and eighteen years, inclusive, who, because
of mental or physical handicap, are incapable of receiving proper benefit
from ordinary public school instruction and who, for their own or the
social welfare, need special public school instruction or training"; wher-
ever the words the state normal school at Towson, the state normal school
at Frostburg, and the state normal school at Bowie occur in this Article,
they shall be construed to mean the state normal at Towson, the state
normal school at Frostburg, the state normal school at Salisbury, and the
state normal school at Bowie; wherever the words "state normal school"
occur in this Article to designate a school which maintains a four-year
course of study, they shall be construed to mean "state teachers college";
and wherever the term "principal" occurs in this Article to designate the
head of ,a normal school which maintains a four-year course of study, it
shall be construed to mean "president of a state teachers college."