1868

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 522

(1)  Such amounts as he deems necessary from time
to time to provide for payment of refunds under this
subtitle.

(2)  AFTER THE DEDUCTION PROVIDED FOR IN
PARAGRAPH (1) OF THIS SUBSECTION, 3/13 OF THE BALANCE
REMAINING SHALL BE PAID INTO THE GENERAL FUNDS OF THIS
STATE.

[(2)] (3) Such amounts as may be required from
time to time to pay the salaries and expenses of
administering the provisions of this subtitle, to be paid
into the general funds of the State as reimbursement for
funds budgeted for this purpose.

[(3)] (4) After the deductions provided for in
paragraphs (1) and [(2)] (3) of this subsection AND THE
DISTRIBUTION TO THE STATE, AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (2) OF
THIS SUBSECTION, [seventy] 70 per centum of the balance
remaining shall be paid into the general funds of this
State.

[(4)] (5) After the deductions provided for in
paragraphs (1) and [(2)] (3) of this subsection and the
distribution to the State, as provided in [paragraph (3)]
PARAGRAPHS (2) AND (4) of this subsection, the remainder
shall be paid and distributed quarterly to each county and
the City of Baltimore, to be credited into the general funds
of each such political subdivision. The amount to be paid to
each political subdivision shall be a pro rata share of the
remainder, in the same ratio from time to time as the
population of the political subdivision is to the population
of the State. In no event, however, shall a political
subdivision be paid under this distribution for any State
fiscal year a sum of money less than that political
subdivision received during the calendar year of 1960 as the
net collection, after the deduction of administrative and
collection expenses, from a cigarette tax then imposed and
collected by that political subdivision. If an extra payment
is made to any political subdivision under the workings of
this paragraph, in the amount necessary to assure that its
payments equal its net collections in 1960, as specified,
the amount of the payment first computed for that political
subdivision plus the extra payment to it then shall be
deducted from the total amount distributable to the several
other political subdivisions; and the amount then
distributable to each of the other political subdivisions
shall be recalculated, as a pro rata share of the remainder,
in the same ratio from time to time as the population of the
respective political subdivision is to the total population
of these several other political subdivisions. Population
figures for the purpose of these computations from time to
time shall be the population records of the State Department
of Health as of January 1 and July 1 of each and every year.