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each of said days, and shall notify the state superintendent of
schools of said apportionment. Provided, that the comptroller
shall withhold from any county or from the City of Baltimore
any instalment from the General State School Fund on notifi-
cation from the state superintendent of schools that said county
or City of Baltimore is not complying with the provisions of
this article.

CHAPTER 20.

Colored Industrial Schools.

142. It shall be the duty of the county board of education
in each county of the State, when in their judgment there is
need thereof, to provide a suitable building or room, or rooms,
connected with one of the colored schools of said county, for
the establishment of a central colored industrial school, and
to provide for the maintenance of such central colored indus-
trial school where instruction shall be given daily in domestic
science and in such industrial arts as may be determined by
the county board of education. One-half of the appropriation
hereinafter provided shall be used for the maintenance of such
industrial school.

143. Whenever any such colored industrial school is opened
in any county the secretary of the county board of education
shall report the fact to the state superintendent of schools,
and he, or an assistant designated by him, shall visit the said
school and shall give, if in his judgment it is warranted, a
certificate of approval of the conditions and the plan upon
which said industrial school is conducted, to the secretary of
the county board of education. The state superintendent of
schools shall submit annually to the Comptroller of the treas-
ury of the State on or before the last day of September, a
complete list of such schools as are entitled to receive the spe-
cial appropriation for industrial education.

144. The Comptroller, upon receiving the certificate of ap-
proval from the state, superintendent of schools, is hereby au-
thorized and directed to issue his warrant, on the first day of
October, each year, upon the treasurer of the State for the sum
of fifteen hundred dollars, payable to the order of the treas-
urer of the county board of education that has inaugurated
such a colored industrial school, in equal quarterly instal-
ments, at the time when the General State School Fund is dis-
tributed, as provided for in this article. One-half of said ap-