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134. The auditor of public accounts, immediately upon receipt of the land and property books of the several commissioners of the revenue of the commonwealth, to make a calculation of the gross sum of all the funds applicable to public free school purposes for the ensuing year, of which amount he shall report ninety per centum thereof to the Superintendent of Public Instruction as an approximate basis for distribution, whereupon said Superintendent of Public Instruction shall at once make out and furnish to the auditor of public accounts a distributive statement of the amounts due the several counties and corporations in the state upon this approximate basis. Upon receipt of such statement, the auditor of public accounts shall issue his warrant upon the treasurer of the state in favor of the superintendent of each county or corporation, for the amount which each county or corporation'is entitled to receive under said statement, which warrant, when endorsed by said county or corporation superintendent to the treasurer of his county or corporation, as herein. after provided by the second section of this act, shall be paid by the treasurer of the state, or shall be accepted from such county or corporation treasurer as cash in all settlements for public revenue made by him with the auditor of public accounts, so far as paid by the warrants hereinafter provided for.

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