Section 5-510. Payment of certain moneys from general fund

For the purpose
  of adjusting the reductions heretofore or hereafter made in  the  amount
  of  taxes receivable by reason of the operation of the provisions of the
  tax law providing for the deduction  from  special  franchise  taxes  of
  payments  made  in  the  nature  of  a  tax,  it shall be lawful for the
  comptroller and commissioner of finance to transfer at any time from the
  moneys in the general fund to the credit of the appropriate  account  or
  accounts, a sum or sums equivalent to but not exceeding such deductions.