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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

49. Principal teachers shall be appointed by the Board of

Principal

District School Trustees, subject to confirmation by the Board

teachers.

of County School Commissioners; and said teachers may be

removed at any time said Board of District School Trustees

may think proper, after thirty days' notice in writing ; provided

further, that the said Board of District School Trustees shall

furnish, in writing, when required by the teacher so notified,

the reasons for dismissal ; provided further, that the right of

appeal shall lie to the Board of County School Commissioners,

whose action in confirming or rejecting the action of the dis-

trict trustees shall be final.

52. Any person holding a first-class teacher's certificate, or

Life certifi-
cates.

a diploma of a respectable college, or of a State Normal School,.

who has been a teacher for seven years, of which five shall

have been spent in the State of Maryland, may apply to the

State Board of Education for a Life Certificate, which, if

granted, shall exempt him or her from any further examina-

tions ; said certificate may be annulled by said board at any

time on account of immoral or unprofessional conduct.

53. The salaries of the teachers of each county shall be

Salaries of
teachers.

fixed by the Board of County School Commissioners; provided.

that no white teacher regularly employed in a public school

of the State of Maryland, having an average attendance of fif-

teen pupils or more, shall receive as salary less than three

hundred dollars per school year.

Age limit of

53A. Whenever any person in this State has taught in

teaching.

any of the public or normal schools thereof twenty-five years,

and has reached the age of sixty years, and his or her record

as such teacher has been without reproach, and by reason of

physical or mental disability or infirmity is unable to teach

longer, the said teacher may lay his or her case before the

State Board of Education, and the said board shall proceed to

consider the same, and if the facts are found as above stated,

the said teacher shall be placed upon a list, a record of which

shall be kept by the said board, to be known as the "Teachers'

Retired List," and the names upon the teacher's retired list

shall be regularly certified to by said board to the Comptroller

of the Treasury of this State, and every person so placed upon

Pension.

the said "Retired List" shall be entitled to receive a pension

from this State of two hundred dollars per annum, to be paid

quarterly by the Treasurer of this State upon the warrant

of the Comptroller.