The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-12-25

O1 EddtimOT3 anu the several counties. Anu
the Comptroller in making the distribution
shall atiportion to Wicomico county such
portion of said fund as it will be entitled to
according to the several laws regulating the
distribution of said fund.- and the County
Commissioners of Wicomico are hereby au-
the ,rized and required to provide for taking
R,e census of said county, and such census
shall be certified to by the Comptroller on or
before the 25th day of June, 1868.
Sec. 2. The Treasurer, on the warrant OF
the Comptroller, shall pay as heretofore to
seach OF the counties and to the city of Balti-
more the proportion of the free school fund
ito which such city or county is entitled under
existing at the time this act is adopted, and
he shall pay the SAME to the Treasurer of the
Board of School Commissioners of Balti-
more city and the several counties.
Sec 3. The several colleges and academies
shall respectively receive the donations grant
ed them by any laws or resolutions OF the
General Assembly subject to the conditions
annexed thereto.
Sec. 4. Real and personal estate granted,
conveyed devised or bequeathed for use OF
any particular county or any school district,
shall be held in trust by the Board of County
School Commissioners for the benefit OF such
and requests shall be exempt from all State
and county taxes.
Sec 8. Moneys invested prior to the pas
sage of this Act in trust for the benefit of the
public schools of any county or city, shall
be exempt from State, county and local taxa
ton.
Sec. 6. As soon as the Comptroller shall
have received from Baltimore and the sever
al counties returns of the amount of State
school tax levied in each county and the city
Of Baltimore, he shall Immediately thereafter
apportion the amount of the whole levy, to
Il he several counties and the city of Balti-
10 !tion between the ages of five and twenty
ears And the State Treasurer, shall, upon
t. he warrant of the Comptroller, pay over
t he amount of the whole levy to the proper
Ulcers in the city of Baltimore and the sew
raj counties authorized to receive the
s anne.
Sec. z. On the fifteenth day of June, the
irst day of October, the first day of January
md the fifteenth day of March, in each year,
the Comptroller shall apportion the amount
of school tax received by the Treasurer
among the several counties and the city Of
Baltimore, in proportion to the whole amount
apportioned to each by the State Treasurer !;
and he shall notify the Board of Trustees, Of
I the State Normal School, and the Comptrol-
: Ter of each of the several Boards of School
I Commissioners of the counties and the city
, of Baltimore of the amount of tax due to
each county and the city of Baltimore on the
several days aforesaid, and the Treasurer
shall pay the several amounts within ten
days after said notification, upon the draft of
the President and Secretary of the several
Boards of School Commissioners aforesaid );
provided, that no payment of said tax shall
be made to any county or the city of Balti-
more until after the organization Of the sever
al Boards of County School Commissioners
under this law.
Sec. 8. When the levy of any year shall
have been collected, the Comptroller shall ap-
portion among the several counties and the
city of Baltimore the amount allowed on the
levy for insolvencies and attachments, and
shall transmit statement of the same to the
trustees of the State Normal School.
Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That all the Sec
tions of the several Articles of the Code of
Public General and Local Laws relating to
schools, inconsistent with the provisions of
this Act, and all Acts of Assembly passed
since the adoption of said volumes OF the
Code relating to schools, inconsistent with
the provisions of this Act, be and the same
are hereby repealed.
Sec. 10. And be it enacted That this law
shall take effect on the first Jay of April, in
the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight {;
provided, nevertheless, that the schools now
in operation may be continued under existing
authorities until their successors are duly ap-
pointed and qualified
. Approved 30th March, 1868.
THOMAS SWAMI,
ju31 Governor.