614 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and nine associate judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
City, four thousand five hundred dollars each, fifty thousand
eight hundred dollars; for the salary of the Attorney General,
three thousand dollars; for the commissions to attorneys on
claims of the State placed in their hands for collection, five
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for
the salary of the crier of the Court of Appeals, one thousand
dollars.

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 Slate Board of Education; Superintendent
of Public Education; Assistant Superintendent of Public Edu-
cation ; Clerk to State Board of Education; the Maryland State
Normal School, Baltimore; State Normal School No. 2 at Frost-
burg; State Normal School No. 3, for colored students; Retired
Teachers' Pensions as provided by Chapter 135 of the Acts of
1912; 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 pur-
poses mentioned in this sub-title "Schools" shall be paid out
of the receipts from the public school tax, and shall be appor-
tioned by the Comptroller quarterly, viz: on the first day of
October, the first day of January, the fifteenth day of March
and the fifteenth day of June, in the proportion 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 thousand and sixty-nine
dollars and thirty-six cents, to be placed to the credit of the
Free School Fund, in accordance with the provisions of the Acts
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