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together with any donations that may be made for the purpose,
shall also be devoted to the maintenance of the schools for
colored children.

Chapter 19. Sources of Income.

1888, art. 77, sec. 100. 1872, ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584.

128. A State tax of fifteen cents on each one hundred-
dollars of taxable property throughout the State shall be levied
annually for the support of free public schools, 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 treasurer to the board of
school commissioners of the city of Baltimore and the several
counties.

Baltimore City v. Lyman, 92 Md. 610.

Ibid. sec. 101. 1872, ch. 377.

129. The treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, shall
pay to each of the counties and the city of Baltimore the pro-
portion of the free school fund to which such city or county is
entitled under the apportionment to be made by the comptroller,
as hereinafter provided; and he shall pay the same to the
treasurer of the board of school commissioners of Baltimore
city and the several counties; and the several colleges and
academies shall respectively receive the donations granted to
them by any laws or resolutions of the general assembly,
subject to the conditions annexed thereto.

Ibid. sec. 102. 1872, ch. 377. 1902, ch. 306.

130. As soon as the comptroller shall have received from the
city of Baltimore and the several counties returns of the amount
of the State school tax levied in each county and the city of
Baltimore, he shall immediately 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.

Ibid. sec. 103. 1872, ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584.

131. On the first day of January, the fifteenth day of
March, the fifteenth day of June, and the first day of October,
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 comptroller; and he shall notify
the State board of education and the treasurer of the several