FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

and for contingent expenses of his office, two hundred and fifty
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid
out of the appropriation for the support of the militia, and the
balance of said appropriation, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, for the maintenance of the militia in the various
counties of the State, and in the city of Baltimore.

PENSIONS.

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For the payment of pensions granted by the acts of the
General Assembly to Mrs. Julia A. Dorsey, and William
Brown, during their natural lives, in accordance with the pro-
visions of chapter two hundred and twenty-eight, of eighteen
hundred and seventy-four, and chapter two hundred and sixty
nine, of eighteen hundred and seventy, one hundred and sixty
dollars.

SCHOOLS.

Pensions.

For the system of free public schools (white and colored), in
the several counties and the city of Baltimore, and for the
State Normal School and the State Board of Education, to be
apportioned by the Comptroller, in accordance with the laws
in such case made and provided, and the directions herein
given, tive hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or what-
soever 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 provis-
ions 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 the said act; provided,
that the sum of one hundred and twenty-five 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; provided, further, that if the amount
paid into the treasury on account of 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 tive hundred thous-
and dollars, and the balance of said receipts shall be distributed

Schools.