512 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 323

provide for distribution of funds to the Counties and Bal-
timore City on the basis of classroom units in operation,
with certain limitations.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 199A of Article 77 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Public Education", sub-
title "Chapter 19. Source and Distribution of Income", as
said section was enacted by Chapter 544 of the Acts of 1945,
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

199A. The Board of Education of each County and the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall be entitled to, and
shall be paid, each year in the manner and subject to the limi-
tations hereinafter provided, Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00)
or such sum in excess thereof as may be provided in the
budget, for each classroom unit in operation in such County
or City, respectively, for which a full time teacher is em-
ployed, provided that the financial assistance herein authorized
shall not be available or given to any County or to Baltimore
City wherein any teacher receives a salary lower than that
established by Section 98 of this Article.

On or before the first day of October, the fifteenth day of
December, the first day of March and June, the State Super-
intendent of Schools shall certify to the Comptroller one-
fourth of the annual sum due the County Board of Education
of each County and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
hereunder, and thereupon the Comptroller shall draw his war-
rant on the Treasurer of the State of Maryland for the respec-
tive amounts due to the said Boards of Education and to the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and the Treasurer of
the State of Maryland, upon receipt of said warrants shall
immediately pay the amount due on said dates to said respec-
tive Boards of Education and to the City of Baltimore.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1947.

Approved April 16, 1947.

CHAPTER 323.
(House Bill 67)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
289 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1939 Edition), title "Health" sub-title "Registration of