ART. ] PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 91

SOURCES OF INCOME.

125. A State tax of fifteen cents on each one hundred dollars
of taxable property throughout the State, shall be levied annually
for the support of the 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
be distributed by the Treasurer to the boards of school commis-
sioners of the city of Baltimore and the several counties in
proportion to their respective population between the ages of
five and twenty years.

126. The Treasurer shall pay as heretofore to each of the
counties and the city of Baltimore, the proportion of the free
school fund to which such city or county is entitled under the
provisions of the laws and resolutions existing at the time this
act is adopted, after deducting the several amounts specially
appropriated from the surplus revenue fund, and he shall pay
the same to the treasurer of the board of school commissioners
of Baltimore city, and of the several counties.

127. The several academies shall respectively receive donations
granted to them by laws or resolutions existing at the time of
the adoption of this act, subject to the conditions annexed
thereto, or until a high school shall be established in the county
or city in which such academies are located.

128. Real and personal estate granted, conveyed, devised, or
bequeathed for use of any particular county or any school
district, shall be held in trust by the State Board of Education,
for the benefit of such county or school district, and such
bequests shall be free from all State, county and school taxes.

129. Funds now invested and forming a part of the public
school fund of any county, shall be inviolably appropriated to
the support of the public schools in said county, and such funds
shall be invested in the State's bonds, which are hereby vested
in the county board of school commissioners; but such moneys