168                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 142

financing the construction of public school buildings and public school
facilities and have otherwise complied with the requirements of
this section, including the requirement in subsection (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 twelve 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 twenty-two
dollars ($22.00) 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 building, improving, or
maintaining any school buildings or facilities situated in said city
and in said counties, it being the intention of this section to limit
the aforesaid levy only for the purposes of participation by the
State in this incentive fund, provided, however, that such additional
amounts as may be made available under the provisions of this
section shall be expended solely for school building construction,
school facilities, and school land which will have been contracted for
after June 1, 1955.

(6)     As used in this section, the phrase "number of pupils
enrolled" shall mean the average number of pupils enrolled in public
schools in the month having the highest average pupil enrollment
in the current school year in which the payments provided for
herein are to be made.

(7)    As soon as possible after the beginning of the State school
year it shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of Schools to
determine which of the counties or Baltimore City are qualified to
participate in this incentive fund. In determining that any county
or Baltimore City is qualified to participate in this incentive fund,
the State Superintendent of Schools shall make the following finding
of fact: The number of pupils enrolled in public schools in each such
county and in Baltimore City; the taxable basis of each such
county and of Baltimore City; the total levy above that required
to pay the cost of the State minimum program of education made by
each such county and by Baltimore City; the amount of tax revenues
raised in each county and in Baltimore City; the amount of tax
revenues raised in each county and in Baltimore City by the afore-
said levy; and the fact that said tax revenues are being or are to
be dedicated by each county and by Baltimore City for the purpose
specified by subsection (2) of this section.

The State Superintendent of Schools shall certify to the Comp-
troller, on or before the last day of July and September, the tenth
day of December, the last day of January, March and May, one sixth
of the sum due the county board of education of each county
qualified to participate in this incentive fund and the City of
Baltimore if it is qualified to participate in this incentive fund.
Thereupon the Comptroller shall within five days of the above said
dates draw his warrant on the Treasurer of the State of Maryland
for the respective amounts due the City of Baltimore and due the
boards of education of each county entitled to receive the same, and
the Treasurer of the State of Maryland, upon receipt of said warrants
shall immediately pay the amount due to the City of Baltimore and
the respective boards of education.]