ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 747

any one school year by the County Board of Education to be
raised by local taxation exceeds a tax, levied and collected of
40 cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) of the assess-
able property, in the county and such additional tax is not
approved and sanctioned by the Board of County Commis-
sioners, the County Commissioners shall indicate in writing
what item or items of the annual budget of the County Board
of Education have been denied in whole or in part, and the
reason for the denial in whole or in part, of the respective
items. Taxes so levied and collected shall be separately indi-
cated on tax bills and tax receipts and shall be known as the
County School Tax. Taxes so levied shall be collected as
other taxes and shall he paid monthly to the treasurer of
the County Board of Education in as nearly equal amounts
as possible, beginning on or before the tenth of October
of each year and continuing up to and including June; pro-
vided that taxes levied and collected for permanent improve-
ments and repairs or special purposes may be required to be
paid oftener, upon the order of the president and secretary
of the County Board of Education to the Board of County
Commissioners. All. taxes received by the County Board of
Education shall be expended by them in accordance with
the items of their annual budget. Any sum of money which
may have been specially levied and collected on any election
or school house district for the educational purposes connected
with such district shall be collected for and applied to the
purpose so intended originally and shall be used for no other
purpose; and if said funds have been used otherwise, they
shall be returned and applied as aforesaid.
Approved April 9, 1920.

CHAPTER 443.

AN ACT to amend Article 36 of Bagby's Annotated Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, by repealing and
re-enacting, with amendments, Section 12 thereof, as
enacted by Chapter 222 of the Acts of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, Session of 1892, entitled "An Act to
repeal and re-enact, with amendments. Section 12 of
Article 36 of the Code of Public General Laws," title,
"Fees of Officers," sub-title, "Clerks of Courts."