LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

credit of the free school fund, in accordance with the provi-
sions 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; pro-
vided, that the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars of the receipts from the public school tax, shall be dis-
tributed to colored schools after deducting the amount payable
to the Colored Normal School; provided further, that if the
amount paid into the treasury on account of the tax for public
schools should not amount to five hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars, then the amount distributed to colored schools
in excess of one hundred thousand dollars shall only be the
amount paid into the treasury from said tax in excess of five
hundred thousand dollars, 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 dona-
tions for colleges, academies and schools, as set forth in acts
and resolutions of the General Assembly heretofore passed,
forty-four thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof
as may be necessary; provided that none of the appropriations
to colleges, academies and schools shall be paid to any of said
institutions, excepting to such as shall have made a full report,
as required by section seventeen of Article seventy-seven of
the Code of Public General Laws; for the instruction of the
indigent blind, to be applied under the direction of the Gover-
nor, in accordance with the provisions of the act of eighteen
hundred and sixty-eight, chapter two hundred and tive, as
amended by the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-six,
twenty-one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary.

CONTINGENT FUNDS.

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For the contingent fund placed at the disposal of the Gover-
nor by Article three, section thirty two, of the Constitution,
ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary ;
and one thousand two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, to be used for the salary of a stenographer
and typewriter; six hundred dollars to pay the salary of an
assistant janitor and keeper of water closets; for the contin-
gent fund of the treasury department, for advertising, station-
ery, blanks, books, expressage, telegrams and other incidental
expenses, twenty-five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary; for the contingent fund of the Comptrol-
ler's office, for printing blanks, licenses, protests, circulars, war-

Contingent
fund.