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as have been invested prior to the passage of this act, shall be
excepted from such reinvestment, to be held in trust for the
benefit of the public schools of the counties to which they
belong, and shall be exempt from State, county and local
taxation.

130. As soon as the Comptroller shall have received from the
city of Baltimore and the several counties, a return of the
amount of the State school tax levied in each, he shall certify
the same and the sum thereof, to the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, who shall immediately thereafter apportion
the amount of whole levy among the several counties and the
city of Baltimore, in proportion to their respective populations,
between the ages of five and twenty years, and shall transmit
the whole apportionment to the Comptroller, and the amount
apportioned to each county and the city of Baltimore, to the
treasurers of the several boards of school commissioners of the
counties and the city of Baltimore.

181. On the fifteenth day of June, the first day of October, the
first day of January and the fifteenth day of March, in each
year, the Comptroller shall apportion the amount of school tax
received by the Treasurer among the several counties and the
city of Baltimore, in proportion to the whole amount apportioned
to each by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and
he shall notify the State Superintendent of Public Instruction,
and the treasurer of each of the several boards of school com-
missioners of counties and the city of Baltimore, of the amount
of tax due to each county and the city of Baltimore; and the
Treasurer shall pay the several amounts within ten days after
said notification, upon the draft of the president and secretary of
the several boards of school commissioners aforesaid; provided,
nevertheless, that no payment of said tax shall be made to any
county or the city of Baltimore, until after the organization
of the several boards of school commissioners on the second
Tuesday of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.

182. When the levy of any year shall have been collected,
the Comptroller shall apportion among the several counties and