208 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 127

or parts thereof, make such annual or continuing appropria-
tions for any of the following purposes, to wit: (a) To or
for the use, benefit, needs or purposes of any and all uni-
versities, colleges, academies, schools, high schools, normal
schools, seminaries, societies and other institutions devoted,
in whole or in part, to teaching, learning, training, or educa-
tion of every and every kind whatsoever; (b) to or for the
use, benefit, compensation, expenses, needs or purposes of
any and all State, county and city boards, commissions, bureaus,
departments, officers, officials or employees, including pensions
to those who have been such officers, officials or employees; (c)
to or for the use, benefit, needs or purposes of any and all
corporations, bodies politic, associations or societies; that all
such laws, acts and resolutions be and the same hereby are
each and all respectively repealed, to the extent that the same
make or provide the annual or continuing appropriations above
mentioned, which it is the intent of this Act to end and abolish,
so far as such appropriations may not be protected from repeal
by any of the provisions of the Constitution of the United
States. Provided that this Act shall not apply to any revenues
or funds which are raised by licenses, fees, taxation or other-
wise, and which after being paid over, according to law, to the
Treasurer, are required by law to be by him paid over, in whole
or in part, to any county or city, or to any department, com-
mission, board or officer of any such county or city of the State.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on the first day of October, in the year one thousand
nine hundred and sixteen.

Approved March 28th, 1916.

CHAPTER 127.

AN ACT authorizing the Treasurer of the State to receive from
any banking institution or trust company of this State a
deposit of one-million-five-hundred-thousand-dollars ($1, -
500, 000), and to use the same, so far as may be necessary,
for the purposes of the State, according to law, and to give
such banking institution or trust company a lien upon the
annuity of ninety-thousand dollars ($90, 000) created by
the act of 1854, Chapter 260, which said annuity is payable
by the Northern Central Railway Company, and upon the