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the same time and by the same agents as the general State

levy; and shall be paid into the Treasury of the State, and

shall be distributed under such regulations as may be pre-

To be distributed
by law.

scribed by law, among the counties and the city of Balti-

more, in proportion to their respective population between

the ages of five and twenty years: Provided, That the

Proviso for Par-
ticular Counties.

General Assembly shall not levy any additional school tax

upon particular counties, unless such county express by

popular vote its desire for such tax; the city of Baltimore

City of Baltimore
excepted.

shall provide for its additional school tax as at present, or

as may hereafter be provided by the General Assembly, or

by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

SEC. 6. The General Assembly shall further provide by

School Fund of Six

law, at its first session after the adoption of this Constitu-

Millions to be ac-
cumulated

tion, a fund for the support of the Free Public Schools of

the State, by the imposition of an annual tax of not less

than fire cents on each one hundred dollars of taxable

property throughout the State, the proceeds of which tax

shall be known as the Public School Fund, and shall be

invested by the Treasurer, together with its annual interest

until such time as said fund shall, by its own increase and

any additions which may be made to it from time to time,

together with the present school fund, amount to six

millions of dollars, when the tax of ten cents in the hun-

dred dollars, authorized by the preceding section, may be

discontinued in whole or in part, as the General Assembly

may direct; the principal fund of six millions hereby pro-

vided, shall remain forever inviolate as the Free Public

School fund of the State, and the annual interest of said

school fund shall be disbursed for educational purposes

.

only, as may be prescribed by law.