HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 97
city, and any deficiency, if any, shall be included in the next
succeeding levy and forthwith paid into the State Treasury.
611-K. Should any county or the City of Baltimore fail to
levy a tax in said county or city for said amount when due
said State, and shall fail at the time of levying other county
or city taxes thereafter, to levy the tax aforesaid, to an amount
sufficient to pay the indebtedness subsequently incurred, it
shall be the duty of the Attorney General to bring in the name
of the State an action against any said county, in the Circuit
Court for said county, or against the City of Baltimore, in the
Superior Court of Baltimore City, so failing aforesaid, to en-
force the levying of said tax, for the recovery of the amount due
the State, as aforesaid. Upon failure of any county or the
City of Baltimore to levy such tax as aforesaid, to an amount
sufficient to pay the amount then due the State, it shall be the
duty of the State Comptroller to charge such delinquent
county or said city with a penalty of interest at one per cent,
per month upon the amount of indebtedness for each month
until payment thereof and penalty thereon be paid. It shall
be the duty of the County Treasurer and the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, upon the collection of the taxes herein
required to be levied, to pay unto the State Treasurer the
amount due and owing from said county or city at the time
and in the manner required for the payment of State taxes
collected, and the State Treasurer and the State Comptroller
shall upon the first day of July and January, in each year,
transfer the full amount received from the counties and the
City of Baltimore, under the provisions of this Article, to the
account of the Cheltenham School for Boys. Taxes levied and
collected in any county or the City of Baltimore for the pur-
pose named in this Article, shall be used to defray the expenses
of the colored male minors committed to the Cheltenham
School for Boys, or paroled, and under the control of said
school and shall not be diverted to any other purpose, nor be
transferred to any other fund by the State, city or county
authorities. Whenever the Board of Managers of the Chelten-
ham School for Boys holds a colored male minor as from one
county or the City of Baltimore, or the County Commissioners
of such county or the Mayor and City Council of the City of
Baltimore makes claim that such colored male minor is not a
proper charge against the said county or the City of Balti-
more, and such County Commissioners or the Mayor and City
Council of the City of Baltimore, shall notify the State Comp-
troller that it is claimed that such colored male minor is not
a proper charge against their county or the City of Baltimore,
as the case may be, and shall claim that the said colored male
minor is a proper charge against some other county or the City
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