828 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 420

days of January and April of each year, and shall be paid by
said male citizens upon the following basis:

All male citizens above the age of twenty-one years shall pay
a tax of One Dollar ($1. 00) per year, provided that such as
have a child or children attending the public schools of said
County shall pay an additional twenty-five cents (25c) and
those having three or more children attending the public schools
of said County shall pay an additional fifty (50c): and
should any male citizen, as aforesaid, fail or refuse to pay said
"Special Tax" within the time prescribed, he shall be adjudged
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before any
Justice of the Peace of said County, shall be fined the sum of
five dollars ($5. 00) and costs, and upon failure to pay said
fine shall be sentenced to the County Jail for a period not ex-
ceeding thirty days. Said fine when so paid shall be turned
over to the County Superintendent of Schools for use as afore-
said.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That said "Special
School Tax" shall be payable to the County Superintendent of
Schools or his Assistant, at his office in La Plata, Maryland,
and he shall sit for the purpose of collecting said "Special
School Tax" on Tuesday of each week in the months of Jan-
uary, February and March of every year, and at such other
times in said months as he may deem advisable, notice of which
said additional sittings shall be given by him through the local
papers. He shall give a receipt for all monies collected and
keep an itemized and separate account of said collections from
his other school funds, and shall keep separate the tax paid by,
white, male citizens from that paid by colored male citizens.
It shall further be the duty of said Superintendent to make up,
or cause to be made up, a list or record of all the male citizens
of said County who are amenable to this tax, and for this pur;
pose he shall be allowed access to the Tax Books, Poll Books and
other public records of said County; and he shall keep said
lists revised from year to year. For this extra service the said
Superintendent shall be allowed a sum not to exceed One Hun-
dred and Fifty Dollars per annum, out of the receipts of said
tax.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty
of said Superintendent to proceed immediately after the first
day in April of each year to prosecute, as herein provided, all
male citizens above the age of twenty-one years who have not