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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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 the 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-

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

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 schools ;

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

Schools

dollars 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 to colleges, academies and schools, as set forth in acts

and resolutions of the general assembly heretofore passed, forty-

four thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may-

be necessary; provided, that none of the appropriations to col-

leges, academies and schools shall be paid to any of said institu-

tions, excepting to such as shall have made a full report as re-

quired by section seventeen, of article seventy-seven, of the Code

of Public General Laws; and for the instruction of the indigent

blind, to be applied under the direction of the governor in accord-

ance with the provisions of the act of eighteen hundred and

sixty-eight, chapter two hundred and five, fifteen thousand dol-

lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

CONTINGENT FUND.

For the contingent fund placed at the disposal of the governor

by article three, section thirty-two, of the constitution, seven

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

necessary, and one thousand dollars or so much thereof as may

be necessary to be used for the salary of a stenographer and type-

writer; for the contingent fund of the treasury department for

advertising, stationery, blanks, books, expressage, telegrams and

other incidental expenses, twenty-five hundred dollars, or so much

thereof as may be necessary; for the contingent fund of the comp-

troller's office, for printing blank licenses, protests, circulars, war-

rants, books and other office expenses, three thousand dollars, or