WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 9

be authorized and empowered to withhold and apply to
amounts due the State under such agreement any and all funds
allocable to the County or to the City of Baltimore, as the case
may be, under the then applicable provisions of the State law
relating to the income tax, the tax on racing, the recordation
tax, the tax on amusements, the incentive fund for school
buildings, and the license tax in each and every year that the
said County or the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, may
have defaulted in any payment required under the terms of the
agreement called for by this sub-paragraph of this sub-section;
and (4) such other terms and conditions as may be required
by regulation of the State Board of Education, and approved
by the Board of Public Works.

(e) The agreement described in sub-paragraph (d) of this
sub-section, shall be signed on behalf of the State of Mary-
land by the State Board of Education, and shall be approved
by the Board of Public Works.

(f) The governing body of each of the Counties in this
State and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are
hereby authorized and empowered to enter into any and all
contracts or agreements required under the terms of this
Act, or which may be required by regulations duly promul-
gated by the State Department of Education or the Board
of Public Works pursuant to the provisions of this Act, any
other provisions of public general law or of public local law
to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That there is hereby
appropriated and authorized to be paid to the Board of
Public Works from the general surplus fund account of the
State Treasury for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, the
sum of Four Million Dollars ($4,000,000) which said sum,
or so much thereof as shall be deemed necessary by the
Board of Public Works, shall be used by the Board of Pub-
lic Works in accordance with the purposes and under the
terms and conditions set forth in Section 5 of this Act; pro-
vided, however, that said sum or any part thereof shall be
used by the Board of Public Works only during the period
beginning with the effective date of this Act and ending
with the date on which settlement for the first group of
certificates authorized to be issued and sold by this Act takes
place and the proceeds derived therefrom are received; and,
after the date on which settlement for the first group of
certificates authorized to be issued and sold by this Act takes
place and the proceeds derived therefrom are received, the
unexpended balance of said sum shall be returned and
credited to the general surplus fund account of the State
Treasury for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950.