FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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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 thou-

sand 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 the 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 deduct-

ing the amount payable to the colored normal schools ;

provided, further, that if the amount paid into the treas-

ury 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 hun-

dred 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 respectfully entitled ; for

donations to colleges, academies and schools, as set forth

in a'cts 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 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 seventeen,

of article twenty- 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 accordance

with the provisions of the act of eighteen hundred and

sixty -eight, chapter two hundred and five as amended by the

acts of 1892, twenty-one - thousand dollars, 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 con-

Contingent

stitution, ten thousand dollars or so much thereof as may

fund.

be necessary ; and one thousand two hundred dollars or so

much thereof as may be necessary to be used for the salary