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PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. — .

CHAPTER XVIII.
Colored Population.

Schools for col-
ored children.

SEC. 1. The total amount of taxes paid for school
purposes by the colored people of any county, or in
the city of Baltimore, together with any donations
that may be made for the purpose, shall be set aside
for maintaining the schools for colored children, which
schools shall be conducted under the direction of the
board of county school commissioners, or the board of
commissioners of public schools of the city of Balti-
more, and shall be subject to such rules and regulations
as said respective boards shall prescribe.

Additional ap-
propriations.

2. The board of county school commissioners shall
have power to appropriate such additional sum as in
their judgment they may deem proper to further assist
the schools for colored children.

District school
board.

3. The board of county school commissioners shall
have power to appoint from among the patrons of the
colored schools, three persons for each school, to act as
a board of district school commissioners.

CHAPTER XIX.
Sources of Income.

State tax.

SEC. 1. A state tax often cents on each one hundred
dollars of taxable property throughout the state shall
be levied annually for the support of the free public
schools, and the Maryland state normal school, 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 treas-
urer to the boards of school commissioners of the city
of Baltimore and the several counties.

Payment of free
school fund.

2. The treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller,
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 pro-
visions of the laws and resolutions existing at the time