ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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twenty-eight, of eighteen hundred aiid seventy-four, and chapter

two hundred and sixty-nine, of eighteen hundred and seventy, five

hundred and twenty dollars.

SCHOOLS.

For the system of free public schools, white and colored, in the

several counties and the city of Baltimore, and for the State nor-

mal school and State board of education, to be apportioned by the

comptroller in accordance with the laws in such case made and

provided and the directions herein given, five hundred and twenty

five thousand dollars or whatever sum may be paid into the

treasury on account of the tax for public schools; also such

other sum or sums as may be received to the credit of the free

school fund from the tax on the circulation of banks; from the

interest on stocks standing to the credit of said fund or from

other sources; also 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, and to be placed. to the

credit of the free school fund in accordance with the provisions

of the act of the December session eighteen hundred and thirty-

School

nine, chapter thirty-three, and substituted for the interest on the

funds.

surplus revenue as provided in said act; provided, that the sum

of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars of the receipts

from the public school tax shall be distributed to colored schools

after deducting the amount payable to the colored normal school ;

provided, further, that if the amount paid into the treasury on

account of the tax for public schools should not amount to five

hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, then the amount dis-

tributed to colored schools in excess of one hundred thousand dol-

lars shall only be the amount paid into the treasury from said tax

in excess of five -hundred thousand dollars, and the balance of

said receipts shall be distributed to the white schools, the State

normal school for whites and the State board of education in the

proportions to which they are respectively entitled; for donations

for colleges, academies and schools, as set forth in acts and reso-

lutions of the general assembly heretofore passed, forty-four thou-

sand five hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary ;

provided, that none of the appropriations to colleges, academies

and schools shall be paid to any of said institutions, excepting to

such as shall have made a full report as required by section seven-

teen, of article seventy-seven, of the code of public general laws ;

for the instruction of the indigent blind, to be applied under the

direction of the governor in accordance with the provisions of

the act of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, chapter two hundred

and five, fifteen thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be

necessary.