ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 399

the county commissioners at the preceding levy, the
amount of money needed for permanent improvements and
repairs, and for current repairs, furniture for old build-
ings, maintenance and support of the schools during the
succeeding school year, also the estimated total amount
that will be received from the State, which shall be used
for paying teachers' salaries and purchasing textbooks,
materials of instruction, and school supplies; and finally
the amount that will be needed to be raised by local taxa-
tion. This annual school budget shall be submitted in
writing, not less than twenty days before the usual date,
for levying county taxes, to the Board of county com-
missioners; at the same time a copy of this annual budget
shall also be submitted to the board of county commission-
ers and to the State Superintendent of Schools. The board
of county commissioners are hereby authorized, empow-
ered, directed, and required to levy and collect such tax
upon the assessable property of the county as will produce
the amount requested to be raised by local taxation in the
annual budget of the county board of education. The
amount requested in the annual budget of the county board
of education for current repairs, furniture in old buildings,
maintenance and support of the schools, for the succeeding
school year, and to be raised by local taxation shall not
hereafter in any year be less than a minimum tax, levied
and collected, of 30 cents on each one hundred dol-
lars ($100) of the assessable property in the county.
Provided, further, that the total amount requested for
any one school year by the county board of educa-
tion for permanent improvements and repairs, current
repairs, furniture in old buildings, maintenance and
support of the schools shall not exceed a tax levied and
collected of 40 cents on each one hundred dollars ($100)
of the assessable property in the county, unless the board
of county commissioners shall approve and sanction such
additional tax. Provided, also, that if the total amount
requested for any one school year by the county board of
education to be raised by local taxation exceeds a tax,
levied and collected of 40 cents on each one hundred
dollars ($100) of the assessable property in the coun-
ty and such additional tax is not approved and sanc-
tioned by the board of county commissioners, the coun-
ty commissioners shall indicate in writing what item
or items of the annual budget of the county board of
education have been denied in whole or in part, and the
reason for the denial in whole or in part of the respective
items. Taxes so levied and collected shall be separately