The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-09-17

Senator Friend Cites the Law Govern
ing the Payment of Funds from
the County Treasurer to the School
Board.
To The Editor of The Republican:
l invite the Attention of all Teachers,
Janitors, Bus Operators to the fol-
lowing:
During the past week 1 have re-
ceived letters from school teachers in
different sections of the County in
reference to a law passed during the
regular session of the Maryland Leg
islature in the year 1885.
1t seems that at the teachers meet
ing held at Oakland on Tuesday, Sep
TENDER 9Th, our superintendent of
schools circulated or caused to be cir
culated among the teachers copies of
the law STIMULATING the manner in
which the county funds levied to the
schools are to be paid over to the
school authorities by the County
Treasurer. And that the teachers, bus
drivers, janitors are now laboring
under a false impression that on ac-
count of a recent law they can in the
future be paid only four times per
year.
The law as it is and was is as fol-
lows, with that portion of the law
which is new printed in heavy type.
Chapter 534
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact
with amendments Section 1o5 of Arti;
Gle IL of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, 1880 Edition)
title Garrett County," subtitle
County Treasurer" pertaining to the
County Treasurer's payment of monies
collected from taxes levied for public
schools in Garrett County.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Cen
eral Assembly of Maryland, that Sec
ton 105 of Article IL of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, 1880
Edition), title Garrett County," SUBJ
title County Treasurer" be and it
is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments to read as follows:
105. That said treasurer shall at
the close of each week, deposit in a
bank to be designated by the comp
troller of the treasury of Maryland,
all State taxes and money due the
State which may have come into his
hands during the week to the credit of
the comptroller of the State Treasury,
and shall receive therefor from said
bank a certificate of deposit which he
shall Immediately forward to the COM
ptroller, showing the amount placed
to his credit; and said treasurer shall
in like manner deposit all money in
his hands at the end of each week re-
ceived for county taxes and dues, in
such bank as he may see fit, to the
rett County, which money shall be
drawn only by the treasurer making
such deposit, and only for claims
which may have been levied and
ordered paid by the county commits
sioners; he shall reserve out of the
money collected by him for county
purposes generally and public schools,
| sufficient sum to pay the amount
levied in each current year by said
commissioners for public schools, and
shall pay the same over to the board
of county school commissioners of
said county, as follows: one-fourth on
or before the first day of November
next succeeding the date of the levy;
one-fourth on or before the first day
of February next thereafter; one
fourth on or before the first day of
April next thereafter and the remain
ing one-fourth on or before the first
day of July next thereafter, provided
however, that at each of said dates
said treasurer shall not pay over to
said Board of county school commits
sioners more than One-fOurth of such
proportion of the monies collected as
the amount of taxes levied for public
schools bears to the aggregate amount
of taxes levied for all purposes"
From the above it can readily be
seen that the change in the law does
not have anything whatever to dc
with the teachers pay. Before the law
was changed the treasurer could pay
over to the school board one-fourth
of the moneys levied for school pur.
poses on November LIST, another
fourth on or before February LIST, q
fourth on or before April LIST, and a
fourth on July LIST. This portion of the
law was not changed, the only change
being in the last part of the law which
stipulates that if one-fourth of the
total levy has not been collected in
any quarter then only that portion
that IS due the school out of the
monies collected can no maid oper. e.