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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

PENSIONS.

For the payment of pensions granted by the various acts

Pensions

and resolutions of the General Assembly to Mrs. Sarah Ann

Watson, Mrs. Julia A. Dorsey, and William Brown, during

their natural lives, in accordance with the provisions of

resolutions sixty-three, of eighteen hundred and forty -nine,

chapter two hundred and seventy- eight, of eighteen hundred

and 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 Normal School and the State Board of Education,

Schools

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 circulatiou of banks ; from the interest on

stocks standing to the credit of said fnnd 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 ; pro-

vided, 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 distributed to

colored schools in excess of one hundred thousand 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 for 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 ;