MISCELLANEOUS APPROPRIATIONS. 439
SCHOOLS.

For the system of free public schools (white and colored) in
the several counties and the City of Baltimore, and for the
State Normal Schools, the State Board of Education, Superin-
tendent of Public Education, Assistant Superintendent of Pub-
lic Education, Clerk to State Board of Education, the Mary-
land State Normal School, Baltimore; State Normal School
No. 2, at Frostburg; State Normal School No. 3, for colored
students; the Normal Department of Washington College;
Retired Teachers' Pensions as provided by Chapter 605 of
the Acts of 1908; for the purchase of Free Text Books and
for the aid of approved High Schools, the sum of one million
four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or whatever sum may
be paid into the Treasury on account of the tax for public
schools; provided, however, that the appropriations for all of
the aforegoing purposes mentioned in this subtitle "Schools"
shall be paid out of the receipts from the public school tax,
and shall be apportioned by the Comptroller quarterly, viz.:
On the first day of October, the first day of January, the fif-
teenth day of March and the fifteenth day of June₍ in the pro-
portion to which they are respectively entitled, and shall be
paid by the Treasurer, upon the warrant of the Comptroller,
quarterly, to wit: On the tenth day of October, the tenth day
of January, the twenty-fifth day of March and the twenty-fifth
day of June; together with the further sum of thirty-four thou-
sand and sixty-nine dollars and thirty-six cents, to be placed
to the credit of the free school fund, in accordance with the
provision of the Act of the December Session of 1839, Chapter-
33, and substituted for the interest on the surplus revenue as
provided in said Act, and shall be apportioned and paid in the
manner now provided by law; provided, however, that this sum
shall also be paid out of the receipts from the public school
tax; also, such 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 such fund, or from other sources; 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 dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary; provided, however, that none of the appropria-
tions 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 17 of Article 77 of the Code of
Public General Laws; for the instruction of the indigent blind
to be applied under the direction of the Governor, in accord-
ance with the provisions of the Acts of 1868, Chapter 215, as
amended by the Acts of 1910, twenty-one thousand dollars, or
so much thereof as may be necessary.