Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1865-05-04

any particular county, OF any school district,
shall be held in trust by tho State Boards Of
Education. for the benefit Of such county or
school district, and such requests shall be free
from oil State. County and school Taxes.
Section 5. Funds now invested and form
ing part of the Public school Fund Of any
connt; shall be inyiolatly appropriated 10 the
support If .he public SCHOOLS in aai1 corn-
ty. ana 7ach funes sh0il be Invested in The
states Bonds which are hereby vested in
the County Board of school Commissioners;
but such moneys as have been invested prior
to the passage Of this act, shall be excepted
from such reinves.ment, to be held in trust
for the benefit of the public schools of the
counties to which they belong. and shall be
exempt from State, County and local Taxa
ton.
Section g. As soon as the Comptroller shall
have received from the city of Baltimore and
the several counties return of the amount of
the state school Tax levied on each, he shall
certify the same and the sum thereof to the
state supcrinten lent of Public Instruction,
who shall Immediately thereafter apportion
the amount Of whole levy among the several
counties and the city of Baltimore in proper
ton TO their respective population between the
ages of FIVE and twenty years, and shall trans
NIT the whole apportionmcnt to the Camptrol-
Ter, and the amounts apportioned to each
county and the city of Baltimore to the Treas
urers Of the several Boards of school Commits
sioners Of the counties and the city of Balti-
more.
Section l. On the fifteenth day of June. the
first day of October, the first day of January
and the fifteenth day of March in each year.
the Comptroller shall apportion the am cunt Of
school tax received by the Treasurer, among
the several counties aud the etyt OF Baltimore
in proportion to the whole amount apportionel
to each by the state superintendent of Public
Instruction, and he shall notify the state SUI
pcrintendent Of Public Instruction aud the
| Treasurer of each of the several Boards of
school commissioners Of the counties and the
city OF Baltimore Of the amount of tax due to
each county and the city Of Baltimore and tho
Treasurer shall pay the several amouts within
ten days after said notification. upon the draft
of President and secretary of the several
Boards of school commissioners; also provided,
nevertheless, that no payment of said tax
shall be made to any county or to the city of
Baltimore until after the organization of the
several boards of school commissioners on the
second Tuesday of July. eighteen hundred
and sixty-five.
Section s. When the levy of any year shall
have been collected. the Comptroller srall APP
portion among the several counties and the
city OF Baltimore the amount allowed Oh the
levy for nsolvcncies and attachments, and
shall transmit a statement ofthe same to the
state superintendent, and to each county and
the city of Baltimore statement of the
amount apportioncd TO it,
Section 8. And J' Il enacted, That Fl ON and after
the first day Of January, eighteen hundred and sixty
seven all the sections OF the several articles OF the
Cole Of Public Local Laws relating TO the lcyying
OF taxes upon the taxable property of the several
counties and cities of the State for school purposes
be and the same are hereby repealed.
Section ls. 4ind he il enacted That all the sections
o the several articles Of the Code Of Public General
and Local Law, relating 10 schools, inconsistent
with the provisions Of this act and al Acts of As
sembly passed since the adoption Of said codes re-
lating to schools inconsistent with the provisions
Of this act, be and the same are hereby repeated.
| Section II. This law shall take effect from the
day OF its passage proridca neperhelesa that the
existing laws until the thirtich day of June, cigh-
teen hundred and sxty-iixe and the present county
! school authorities shall exercise all the powers
vested in them until Monday, the tenth day July
! eighteen hundred and sixty-hye'
Section IL The High Schools Of Baltimore city
shall have the same powers of comforting diploma;
| that they have had before, and which they have a.
the lime of the passage OF this act.