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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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

Colleges, acad-
emies, etc.

respectively entitled ; for donations for 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 appropriations 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 ; to Saint
Mary's Industrial School, fifteen thousand dol-
lars ; to the Female House of Refuge, three
thousand dollars , to the Maryland School for the
Blind, for the education of the deaf and dumb
and blind colored children of the state, seven
thousand dollars ; to the Maryland Agricultural
College, six thousand dollars, provided that no
more of said appropriation than the sum of five
dollars be paid to the said Maryland Agricul-

Colleges, acad-
emies, etc.

tural College unless and until the board of
trustees thereof shall be so changed as to include
one practical farmer, or person immediately
interested in agricultural pursuits, from each of
the congressional districts of this state; for the
instruction of the indigent blind, to be applied
under the direction of the governor, in accord-
ance with the provisions of the act of eighteen
hundred and sixty-eight, chapter two hundred
and five, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary.