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which the County Board of Education may be authorized to
expend for the schools, other than State appropriations, and
exclusive of the amount authorized 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 Com-
missioners, irrespective of the source or sources from which
v 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 per centum (20%) of the total budget, not including
costs of transportation as authorized in this section, debt
service and capital outlay, for purposes other than teachers'
salaries. But no special appropriation 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 July 1, 1945.

Approved April 5, 1945.

CHAPTER 594.
(House Bill 623)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
262, 263 and 267 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Public Education", sub-
title "Vocational Rehabilitation".

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly o j Mary-
land, That Sections 262, 263 and 267 of Article 77 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Public Educa-
tion", sub-title "Vocational Rehabilitation", be and the same
are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

262. In order to provide for the vocational rehabilitation of
disabled persons, there is hereby established under the direc-
tion and control of the State Board of Education, a division for
the vocational rehabilitation and placement in remunerative
employment of persons whose capacity to earn a living is or
has been destroyed or impaired.

263. For the purpose of this sub-title the term disabled per-
sons means any person who, by reason of a defect or infirmity,