ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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 bonds ;
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

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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 provisions of the act of
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 hun-
dred and twenty-five thousand dollars of the re-
ceipts 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 dis-
tributed to the white schools, the State Nor-
mal school for whites and the State Board of
Education, in the proportions to which they are
respectively entitled ; for donations to colleges,
academies and schools, as set forth in acts and
resolutions of the general assembly heretofore
passed, forty-four thousand, five hundred dol-
lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
provided that none of the appropriation to col-
leges, 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
four of article eighty-four of the Code of Public
General Laws; for the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at
Frederick, for the education of the deaf and
dumb, twenty-five thousand dollars, and to the
same for repairs to building, five thousand dol-
lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary ; to
St. Mary Industrial School, fifteen thousand dol-
lars ; to the Female House of Refuge, three

Colleges, acad-
emies, etc.