WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1119

appropriations to be known as an incentive fund for the
purpose of granting State aid to the counties and to the
City of Baltimore to finance the construction of school
buildings and school facilities, as may from time to time
be made by budget bill or supplementary appropriation
bill, to the boards of education of each county and to the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore; and such special
appropriations to be known as an Equalization Fund, as
may from time to time, be made by budget bill or supple-
mentary appropriation bill, to the county boards of edu-
cation of certain counties and to the Mayor and City
Council of the City of Baltimore, to enable them to pay
the minimum salaries prescribed in this Article for high
school and elementary school teachers and the necessary
costs of transporting pupils to public schools when such
transportation is approved by the State Superintendent of
Schools, and provided, that the Board of County Commis-
sioners of each of the several counties and the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore eligible to share in the Equaliza-
tion Fund shall levy an annual tax for the schools of not
less than sixty-five cents (65c) on each One Hundred
Dollars ($100) of assessable property, 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 and the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore may be authorized to expend
for schools, other than State appropriations, and other
than funds received by the County Commissioners of each
county and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore from
the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles on account of the
license fees on motor vehicles, Classes A to J, inclusive, as
more particularly set forth hereinbelow, 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
Commissioners and by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, irrespective of the source or sources from
which such funds may be derived; provided, further, that
the county commissioners of each county and the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore shall allocate and credit to
the school funds of said county or the City of Baltimore
the percentage of the amounts received from the Com-
missioner of Motor Vehicles on account of the license fees
on motor vehicles, Classes A to J, inclusive, which the
school tax rate in said county or in the City of Baltimore
bears to the total county or Baltimore City tax rate; and
provided, further, that the county board of education in