LAWS OF MARYLAND OF 1956

MARYLAND, Sct:

At a Session of the General Assembly of Maryland, begun and held
in the City of Annapolis on the First day of February,
1956, and ending on the First day of March, 1956, the
Honorable Theodore R. McKeldin, being Governor of the
State, the following Laws were enacted, to wit:

CHAPTER 1
(Senate Bill 340)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 215 (5)
of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition),
title "Public Education", sub-title "Chapter 19. Source and Dis-
tribution of Income", relating to the amount of the Incentive
Fund for the construction of Public school buildings and public
school facilities which may be distributed to the several County-
Boards of Education and to the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 215 (5) of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1951 Edition), title "Public Education", sub-title "Chapter 19.
Source and Distribution of Income", be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, and to read as follows:

215.

(5) If the County Commissioners of each County and the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore have levied a minimum of five cents
on each One Hundred Dollars of their taxable basis for the purpose
of financing the construction of public school buildings and public
school facilities and have otherwise complied with the requirements
of this section, including the requirements in Sub-section (3) hereof,
there shall be paid from the State General Fund to each such County
and to the City of Baltimore an additional amount of Ten Dollars
multiplied by the number of pupils enrolled respectively in each
such County or the City of Baltimore. The maximum participation
by the State in the Incentive Fund created and established by this
section shall be limited to an amount necessary to provide [Ten
Dollars ($10.00)] Twenty Dollars ($20.00) multiplied by the number
of pupils enrolled in the City of Baltimore or in the said counties
each year, as the case may be. Provided, however, that nothing herein
contained shall be taken to limit in general the total levy which the
City of Baltimore and each county may make for the purpose of

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