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given, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or what-
ever 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 pro-
visions 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 ;
Erovided, that the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dol-
ars, 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, 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 pro-
portions to which they are respectively entitled ; provided,
that neither the city of Baltimore nor any county shall be
entitled to any part of said public school tax or fund for white
schools, in which city or county the colored schools shall not
hereafter be kept open 'the same length of time as white
schools ; provided, however, this provision shall not be con-
strued to require any county or the city of Baltimore to keep
open any colored school in which the average daily attendance
is less than ten pupils for two consecutive terms ; for donations
to colleges, academies and schools, as set forth in Acts and
resolutions of the General Assembly, heretofore passed, forty-
four thousand tive hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary ; for the erection of a building at Frostburg, Alle-
gany county, to be known as State Normal School No. 2, the
sum of twenty thousand dollars, and for the support of said
school, when established, tive thousand dollars annually ; pro-
vided, that the people of the town of Frostburg furnish the
ground for the site of said building, and deed the same to the
State ; 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; and 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
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