1502 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 790]

more than one regularly appointed teacher, subordinate to the
principal teacher, and there is an average attendance of forty
scholars for the first two teachers and forty for each additional
teacher, the minimum salary of such principal teacher shall be
as many hundred dollars in excess of five hundred ($500.00)
dollars per school year as there are additional regularly ap-
pointed subordinate teachers in excess of one; the salaries named
may, in the discretion of the Board of County School Commis-
sioners of Montgomery County, be increased, and in the event
there shall be a deficiency in any year in the revenues of the
said Board of County School Commissioners, the salaries of all
teachers in said county may, in the discretion of the said Board
of County School Commissioners, be reduced during the period
of such deficiency of revenues; provided, however, that nothing
in this act shall be construed so as to prevent said Board of
County School Commissioners from fixing the salary of a prin-
cipal teacher, from time to time at not less than nine hundred
($900.00) dollars per school year in schools in which there are
five or more regularly employed assistant teachers with the
appropriate average as aforesaid.

1908, ch. 48, sec. 2.

528. That for the purpose of this act the principal teacher
of a high school, in which there is a grammar school depart-
ment, shall be accounted a principal teacher; and all of the other
teachers, both in the high schools and in the grammar school
departments, who are subject to his authority as principal of
the whole school shall be accounted as teachers subordinate to
the high school principal teacher.

1906, ch. 437, sec. 3.

529. For the purposes .of this act manual training teachers
and teachers of similar courses shall not be included among the
"teachers subordinate to the principal teacher," unless they teach
in one school only and are as directly under the control and
supervision of the principal teacher of the school as are the
assistant teachers of the regular graded courses.
1906, ch. 437, sec. 4.

530. When during a school year it shall become necessary
to regularly appoint one or more additional teachers to the
corps of teachers of a school, or to decrease the number of
teachers assigned to a school, the salary of the principal teacher
or principal teachers connected with the school shall be corre-
spondingly increased or decreased in accordance with this act.
1908, ch. 229, sec. 1.

531. That the Board of County School Commissioners of
Montgomery County be and it is hereby, in its discretion,