ART. — .] PUBLIC EDUCATION.

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provide for taking the census of said county, and such
census shall be certified to by the comptroller on or
before the 25th day of June, 1868.

Census of Wico-
mico county.

2. The treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller,
shall pay as heretofore to each of the counties, and the
city of Baltimore, the proportion of the free school
fund to which such city or county is entitled under the
provisions of the laws and resolutions existing at the
time this article is adopted, and he shall pay the same
to the treasurer of the board of school commissioners
of Baltimore city, and of the several counties.

Payment of
free school
fund.

3. The several colleges and academies shall respect-
ively receive the donations granted to them by any
laws or resolutions of the general assembly, subject to
the conditions annexed thereto.

Donations to
colleges, &c.

4. Beal and personal estate, granted, conveyed, de-
vised or bequeathed for the 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 county or school district, and such

Real and per-
sonal estate
granted, &c.

grants and bequests shall be exempt from all state and
county taxes.

Exempt from
taxation.

5. Moneys invested prior to the passage of this ar-
ticle in trust for the benefit of the public schools of any

Money Invest-
ed.

county or city, shall be exempt from state, county or
local taxation.

Exempt from
taxation.

6. As soon as the comptroller shall have received
from the city of Baltimore and the several counties,
returns of the amount of state school tax levied in each
county and the city of Baltimore, he shall immediately

Duty of comp-
troller.

thereafter apportion the amount of the whole levy, to
the several counties and the city of Baltimore, in pro-
portion to their respective population between the ages
of five and twenty years, and the state treasurer shall,
upon the warrant of the comptroller, pay over the
amount of the whole levy to the proper officers in the
city of Baltimore and the several counties authorized
to receive the same.

Apportion-
ment.

7. On the fifteenth day of June, the first day of Oc-
tober, the first day of January, and the fifteenth day of

Time of appor-
tionment.