MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                        955

(6)    The State Superintendent of Schools shall approve for each
county and Baltimore City expenditures of funds for school con-
struction under the terms of subparagraphs (1) and (2) of this
subsection before including such amounts in the calculation of funds
due each county and Baltimore City.

(7)    The State Superintendent of Schools shall certify to the
Comptroller on or before the last day of July and September, the

tenth day of December, and the last day of January, March, and

TEN (10) DAYS BEFORE THE END OF JULY, SEPTEMBER,
NOVEMBER, JANUARY, MARCH, AND May, one-sixth each of
the sum due the county board of education of each county quali-
fied to participate in this school building construction aid pro-
gram and the City of Baltimore if it is so qualified. There-
upon the Comptroller within five days of the above said dates
shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer of the State of Maryland
for the respective amounts due the boards of education of each
county and due the City of Baltimore, and the Treasurer of the State
of Maryland, upon receipt of said warrants shall immediately pay
the amounts due to the City of Baltimore and the respective boards
of education.

If for any year the appropriation for the school building con-
struction fund is insufficient to pay all costs due therefrom, all
eligible projects shall be reduced proportionately and any such re-
duction shall be included in the next State appropriation and any
payments so withheld shall be made.

(c) References to incentive fund for school buildings to mean
school building construction aid program.—Wherever reference is
made in any public general or public local law to the incentive fund
for school building, this reference after July 1, 1967, shall mean the
school building construction aid program established under this
section.

131.    Withholding funds for failure to comply with Article.

The Comptroller shall withhold from any county or from the City
of Baltimore any installment from the general State school fund on
notification from the State Superintendent of Schools that said county
or City of Baltimore is not complying with the provisions of the
State Foundation Program of Public Education.

132.    Effect of participation of counties or Baltimore City in Gen-
eral Public School Construction Loan of 1956 or similar acts.

The indebtedness of any county or the City of Baltimore shall not
be considered to be increased by reason of the receipt by said county
or by said city, after January 1, 1958, of money from participation
by such political subdivision in the General Public School Construc-
tion Loan of 1956 authorized by Chapter 80 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of 1956, or any similar Act passed or to be hereafter
passed. No county nor the City of Baltimore shall be required to levy
ad valorem taxes upon its taxable basis for the purpose of repaying
to the State any such money