ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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nance of the companies, battalions or regiments of

state militia already organized in the various counties

of the state and city of Baltimore, and the additional

sum of four hundred and fifty dollars is hereby ap-

propriated for the Williamsport light infantry.

PENSIONS.

For the payment of pensions granted by the various

acts and resolutions of the general assembly — to Mrs.

Sarah Ann Watson, Mrs. Julia A. Dorsey and Wil-

liam Brown, during their natural lives, in accordance

with the provisions of resolution sixty-three of eigh-

For pensions

teen hundred and forty-nine, chapter two hundred and

granted.

twenty-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 Bal-

timore, and for the State Normal School and the State

Board of Education, to be apportioned by the comp-

troller in accordance with the laws in such case made

and provided, and the directions herein given, five hun-

dred 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 circu-

lation of banks, from the interest on stocks standing to

the credit of said fund, or from other sources; also the

sum of thirty- four thousand and sixty-nine dollars and

Free public

thirty-six cents, to be paid out of any money in the

schools.

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; provided that the sum of one

hundred 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; and the balance of said re-

ceipts shall be distributed to the white schools, the

State Normal School for whites, and the State Board