1000

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

such case made and provided and the directions herein given,
five hundred and twenty-five 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 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 be placed to the
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 propor-
tions to which they are respectively entitled; for donations for
colleges, academies and schools, as set forth in acts and resolu-
tions of the General Assembly heretofore passed, forty-four
thousand tive 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 Governor in accordance with the provisions of the act of
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, chapter two hundred and
tive, twenty-one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary.
CONTINGENT FUNDS.

Contingent
funds.

For the contingent fund placed at the disposal of the Gov-
ernor 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