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boards of county school commissioners of the counties and the
city of Baltimore, on the several days aforesaid; and the
treasurer 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 commissioners afore-
said; provided, also, that if in any county the schools shall be
kept open less than nine months of the year ending December
31, or any white teacher regularly employed receiving an
annual salary of less than three hundred dollars, as hereinbe-
fore provided for, the comptroller shall withhold from said
county the March instalment of the State school tax; that the
provisions of this section shall apply to Garrett county only in
so far as to oblige that county to keep its schools open seven
and one-half months, and pay its teachers a minimum salary
of two hundred dollars per year.

1888, art. 77, sec. 104. 1878, ch. 91. 1904, ch. 584.

132. In making the apportionments required by the preced-
ing section, it shall be the duty of the comptroller to equalize
as far as may be possible the sums to be apportioned, so as to
apportion and distribute the same amount, as far as may be
practicable, on each of said days; and until otherwise
expressly directed by law, the comptroller shall charge to said
fund and pay therefrom the annual appropriations that have
been or may hereafter continue to be made for said State nor-
mal schools, and also the appropriation for the colored normal
school, the salary of the State superintendent of public educa-
tion, the salary of the clerk of the State superintendent of
public education, and the expenses of the State board of educa-
tion.

Ibid. sec. 105. 1872, ch. 377.

133. When the levy of any year shall have been collected
the comptroller shall apportion among the several counties and
the city of Baltimore the amount allowed on the levy for insol-
vencies and abatements and shall transmit a statement of the
same to the State board of education.

Ibid, sec 106. 1882, ch. 429.

134. The treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller,
shall annually pay on the first day of April to the school com-
missioners of Anne Arundel county the sum of four hundred
dollars as an academy fund in addition to the appropriation
now received by them for such purpose, the said sum when