392 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 76

children in accordance with standards, rules and regulations
of the State Board of Education shall be paid in the same
manner as the ordinary expenses for the support of schools
in the several counties of the State; provided that in calcu-
lating the cost of the minimum program as a basis for deter-
mining the amount of the equalization fund which a county is
entitled to receive, each such special class shall be considered
as a separate unit. And wherever the City of Baltimore or
any "of the counties of the State shall inaugurate a special
program of instruction under standards, rules and regula-
tions of the State Board of Education to meet the needs of any
child whose handicap is physical or mental and whose needs are
not met by ordinary school facilities, the city or counties so
providing the same shall be entitled to receive, toward the
cost of teachers, special equipment, nursing, therapeutic treat-
ment, and transportation, an amount not to exceed [Four
Hundred Dollars ($400.00)] Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00)
per child, to be paid by the State of Maryland out of a special
fund to be appropriated for such purpose in the State Public
School Budget. The State Superintendent of Schools shall
ascertain the respective amounts the City of Baltimore and
the counties shall be so entitled to receive from the State
under this section, and when such amounts are so ascer-
tained the State Superintendent of Schools shall certify the
same to the State Comptroller.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1950.

Approved March 28, 1950.