130 REVENUE AND TAXES. [ART. 81

directed to levy the State taxes for the year nineteen hundred, to
be collected according to law, and to be apportioned as follows:
A tax of ten and one-half cents on each one hundred dollars to
aid in support of the public schools, to be distributed according
to law among the several counties and city of Baltimore; and
a tax of two cents on each one hundred dollars to defray the

costs of supplying books for the use of the children in the public
schools of this State; and a tax of three-fourths of one cent on

each one hundred dollars to meet the interest and create a sinking
fund for the redemption of the penitentiary loan; a tax of three-
sixteenths of one cent on each one hundred dollars to meet the
interest and create a sinking fund for the redemption of the
insane asylum loan; a tax of fifteen-sixteenths of one cent on each
one hundred dollars to meet the interest and create a sinking fund
for a new loan now about to be issued for the erection of a new
State building, and for the improvement to sundry State institu-
tions, to be known as the "State building and improvement loan, "
and a tax of three and three-eighths cents on each one hundred
dollars to meet the interest and create a sinking fund for the
redemption of the State debt now outstanding, making an aggre-
gate of seventeen cents and three-fourths of a cent on each one
hundred dollars; and the county commissioners of the several
counties of this State, and the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more city, are directed to levy the State taxes for the year nine-
teen hundred and one, to be collected according to law, and to be
apportioned as follows: A tax of ten and one-half cents on each one
hundred dollars to aid in support of the public schools, to be dis-
tributed according to law among the several counties and city
of Baltimore; a tax of two cents on each one hundred dollars to
defray the cost of supplying books for the use of the children in
the public schools of this State; a tax of three-fourths of one
cent on each one hundred dollars to meet the interest and create
a sinking fund for the redemption of the penitentiary loan; a tax
of one-eighth of one cent on each one hundred dollars to meet
the interest and create a sinking fund for the redemption
of the insane asylum loan; a tax of three-fourths of one cent on
each one hundred dollars to meet the interest and create a sinking
fund for the redemption of the "State building and improvement
loan; " and a tax of two and seven-eighths cents on each one