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	Executive and Treasury Departments, the Land Of-
	fice, the Secretary of the Senate and Chief Clerk of
	the House of Delegates, twelve hundred and fifty
	dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary ; for
	the expense of fuel and lights for the public build-
	ings and grounds, five thousand dollars, or so much
	thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under
	the direction and control of the Governor.
	SCHOOLS.
	To the several counties and the city of Baltimore,
	for the system of Free Public Schools, white and
	colored, and for the State Normal School and State
	Board of Education, to be apportioned by the Comp- troller according to law, five nundred thousand dol-
	lars, or whatever sum may be paid into the treasury
	on account of the levy for public schools, and such oth-
	er sum or sums as may be received to the credit df the Free School Fund from tax on the circulation of
	banks, and from interest on stocks standing to the
	credit of said fund, together with the sum of thirty-
	four thousand and sixty-nine dollars and thirty-six
	cents, to be paid out of any money in the treasury
	not otherwise appropriated, to be placed to the credit of the Free School Fund in accordance with the
	provisions of the act of the December session, eigh-	For free pub-
	teen hundred and thirty-nine, chapter thirty-three,	lic schools &c
	and substituted for the interest on the surplus revenue
	as provided in said act ; provided, that the sum of
	one hundred thousand dollars of the receipts from
	the public school tax shall be distributed for colored
	schools, after deducting the amount payable to the
	colored Normal School, and the balance to be distri-
	buted to the white schools, the State Normal School
	for whites and the State Board of Education, and
	the State Normal School shall not receive more than
	eight thousand dollars ; that the Comptroller, in ap-
	portioning the five hundred thousand dollars appro-
	priated by this section, shall not pay to the Principal
	of the State Normal School, either directly or indi-
	rectly, a sum above two thousand dollars ; and that
	the State Board of Education is hereby prohibited
	from paying to the said Principal of the State Nor-
	mal School any amount of the money hereby appro-
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