HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1071

to public high schools when such transportation is approved
by the State Superintendent of Schools; provided, that the
Board of County Commissioners of each of the several coun-
ties sharing in the Equalization Fund shall levy and collect
an annual tax for the schools of not less than fifty-one (51)
cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) of assessable prop-
erty, exclusive of the amount levied for debt service and
capital outlay for the schools; provided, further that in any
county, all funds which the County Board of Education
may be authorized to expend for the schools, other than
State appropriations, and exclusive of the amount author-
ized to be expended for debt service and capital outlay,
may, for the purposes of the above proviso, be considered as
levied by the Board of County Commissioners, irrespective of
the source or sources from which such funds may be derived;
and provided, further, that the County Board of Education
in each of the several counties sharing in the Equalization
Fund shall expend no less than twenty-four per centum (24%)
of the total budget, not including costs of transportation as
authorized in this section, debt service and capital outlay,
for purposes other than teacher's salaries. But no special ap-
propriation to any county, except as heretofore in this section
provided, or to any academy, or to any college or university
may be paid from the General State School Fund.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1939.

Approved May 24, 1939.

CHAPTER 515.
(House Bill 420)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 64A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), titled "Merit System",
said new section to be known as Section 2A to follow imme-
diately after Section 2 of said Article, to take out of the
Classified Service of the State certain employees covered
into said Service by Executive Order.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and is hereby added to Article 64A
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), titled
"Merit System", said new section to be known as Section 2A