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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

hundred and twenty- eight of eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-four, and chapter two hun-
dred 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 Baltimore and for the State

Public Schools.

Normal School and State Board of Education,
to be apportioned by the Comptroller, in ac-
cordance with the laws in such case made and
provided and the directions herein given: five
hundred 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
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
thousand and sixty-nine dollars and thirty-six
cents, to be paid out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to

Colored Schools.

be placed to the credit of the free School
Fund, in accordance withjthe provisions of the
act of the December session, eighteen hundred
and thirty-nine, chapter thirty-three, and sub-
stituted 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 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 respectively entitled; for donations for col-

Proviso.

leges, academies and schools, as set forth in
acts and resolutions of the General Assembly
heretofore passed, forty-two thousand five hun-
dred dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary; provided, that none of the appro-