ART. — .] PUBLIC EDUCATION.

this act is adopted, and he shall pay the same to the
treasurer of the board of school commissioners of Bal-
timore city and of the several counties. And the sev-
eral colleges and academies shall respectively receive
the donations granted to them by any laws or resolu-
tions of the general assembly, subject to the conditions
annexed thereto.

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3. Real and personal estate, granted, conveyed, de-
vised or bequeathed for the use of any particular county
or any school district, shall be held in trust by the board

Real estate, &c ,
granted, to be
held in trust.

of county school commissioners for the benefit of such
county or school district; and such grants and bequests
shall be exempt from all state and county taxes.

Exempt from
taxation.

4. Moneys invested prior to the passage of this act,
in trust for the benefit of the public schools for any

Money in-
vested.

county or city, shall be exempt from state, county or
local lax.

Exempt from
taxation.

5. As soon as the comptroller shall have received
from the city of Baltimore and the several counties,
returns of the amount of state school tax levied in
each county and the city of Baltimore, he shall im-
mediately thereafter apportion the amount of the whole
levy to the several counties and the city of Baltimore,
in proportion to their respective population, between
the ages of five and twenty years.

Duty of comp-
troller.

6. 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 appor-
tioned to each by the comptroller ; and he shall notify
the board of state school commissioners and the treas-
urer of each of the several boards of county school com-
missioners of the counties and the city of Baltimore.of
the amount of tax due to each county and the city of
Baltimore on the several days aforesaid, and the treas-

Time of appor-
tionment.

urer shall pay the several amounts within ten days after
said notification, upon the draft of the president and
secretary of the several boards of county school com-

Payment.