1690                               Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 770

local and State funds, an amount for each resident of the county
which is not less than three dollars ($3.00) ONE DOLLAR AND
EIGHTY CENTS ($1.80). The State shall share in an expenditure of
three dollars ($3.00) ONE DOLLAR AND EIGHTY CENTS ($1.80)
per capita of approved public library service. Local tax sources shall
include all monies appropriated to the Public Library Fund by the
counties or participating municipalities.

Any county may provide an amount in excess of its share of the
cooperative program, but the State shall not share in the excess.

(d)    Of the entire cost of the cooperative program for approved
public libraries for the State as a whole, the State shall appropriate
approximately fifty percentum (50%) THIRTY PERCENTUM
(30%) of the cost of the minimum program. The counties participat-
ing in the program, in the aggregate, shall appropriate approximately
fifty percentum (50%) SEVENTY PERCENTUM (70%) of the
entire cost throughout the State. For an individual county, the per-
centage of local support for the cooperative program in which the
State shares in no event shall exceed seventy percentum (70%)
EIGHTY PERCENTUM (80%) and the percentage of State support
in no event shall be less than thirty per centum (30%) TWENTY
PERCENTUM (20%) of the cost of the minimum program.

(e)    The amount of a county's contribution to the cooperative
program is determined by the following computation:

taxable wealth per capita for the county
----------------------------------------------------- = X ratio

taxable wealth per capita for the State

which is multiplied by 50 70; and this product is the percentage of
the total cost which is to be paid by the county. The remaining per-
centage of the total cost is the State's share and shall be paid by the
State. The total cost in any county is the product of its population
multiplied by the appropriate amount per capita as provided in this
section. Any county may provide an amount in excess of its share of
the minimum program, but the State shall not share in the excess.

(f)    The appropriate officials of the several counties and of par-
ticipating municipalities may levy for and appropriate the necessary
monies as specified in this section. These monies plus the State's
contribution to that county shall be designated as thePublic Library
Fund UTILIZED SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUB-
TITLE.

(g)    The State Superintendent of Schools shall authorize the
payment to the county board of library trustees of any county in
which a library is established or operating under this subtitle, those
funds subject to its order to which the county and the library may be

entitled. These funds shall be added to the Public Library Fund

BOARD OF TRUSTEES IS ESTABLISHED OR OPERATING
UNDER THIS SUBTITLE OR TO THE COUNTY OR BALTI-
MORE CITY IN THOSE COUNTIES WHERE A BOARD IS NOT
CREATED. THESE FUNDS SHALL BE UTILIZED SOLELY
FOR LIBRARY PURPOSES. The State Superintendent of Schools
shall require that all such funds be used subject to any conditions
specified by the appropriating agency or imposed consistently with
this subtitle.