ART. — ] PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

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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 spe-
cially 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 re-
ceive donations granted to them by laws or resolu-
tions 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.

Ibid s 3
Donations to
academies.

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.

Ibid, a 4
Real estate
granted, &c., to
be held in trust
by state board.

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 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.

Ibid, s 5
County school
funds.

180. 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 popu-
lations, between the ages of five and twenty years,
and shall transmit the whole apportionment to the

Ibid s 6.
Duty of comp-
troller and
superintendent
as to state
school tax.