488 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 263

appropriations, and other than funds received by the Coun-
ty Commissioners of each County and the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore from the Commissioner of Motor Ve-
hicles 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 Commissioner 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 bear to the total County or Baltimore City tax
rate; and provided further, that the County Board of
Education in each of the several Counties and the Board
of School Commissioners of Baltimore City eligible to share
in the Equalization Fund shall expend no less than twenty
per centum (20%) of the total budget, not including costs
of transportation, debt service and capital outlay, for pur-
poses other than teachers' salaries. But no such appro-
priation 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.

213. (a) The Board of Education of each County and
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall be entitled
to, and shall be paid, each year in the manner and subject
to the limitations hereinafter provided, Four Hundred
Dollars ($400. 00) or such sum in excess thereof as may be
provided in the budget, for each classroom unit in opera-
tion in such County or City, respectively, [for which a
full time teacher is employed, ] computed on a full-time
teacher basis. Provided, however, that for the school year
1955-1956 and continuing thereafter, the Board of Educa-
tion of each county and the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore shall be entitled to and shall be paid each year
in the manner and subject to the limitations hereinafter
provided, $600, or such sum in excess thereof as may be
provided in the Budget for each classroom, unit in operation
in such county or city, respectively, computed on a full-time
teacher basis, [provided that] The financial assist-
ance herein authorized shall not be available or given