1732 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77

1904, art. 77, sec. 57. 1888, art. 77, sec. 53. 1872, ch 377. 1904, ch. 584.

59. The salaries of the teachers of each county shall be fixed by
the board of county school commissioners; provided, that no white
teacher regularly employed in a public school of the State of Mary-
land, having an average attendance of fifteen pupils or more, shall
receive as salary less than three hundred dollars per school year.

A teacher who has been wrongfully removed and holds herself in readiness
to teach, is entitled to compensation if she was unable to obtain other
employment. Underwood v. School Commissioners, 103 Md. 190.

1908, ch. 635, sec. 122 1/2E. 1910, ch. 420, sec. 122 1/2 E (p. 226).

60. All white teachers regularly employed, holding a first-class
teacher's certificate and having taught for a period of three years in
any of the public schools of the State of Maryland, shall receive as
salary not less than three hundred and fifty dollars ($350) per annum;
and provided further, that if such teacher hold a first-class teacher's
certificate and has taught in the public schools of Maryland for a period
of five years, he or she shall receive an annual salary of not less than
four hundred dollars ($400); and provided further, that if a teacher
holds a first-class teacher's certificate and has taught in the public
schools of Maryland for a period of eight years, he or she shall receive
as an annual salary not less than four hundred and fifty dollars ($450) ;
and provided, further, that if a teacher holds a aecond-class teacher's
certificate and has taught in the public schools of the State of Mary-
land for a period of eight years, he or she shall receive as an annual
salary not less than three hundred and fifty dollars ($350). The county
commissioners of each county shall levy a sufficient amount to meet the
increase of salaries provided for in this section.

Section 122 1/2 E of the act of 1908, ch. 635, held not to be invalid under
article 3, section 29, of the state constitution. The duty of the county
commissioners to levy taxes under said section, is enforceable by the county
school commissioners by mandamus, and the right to the writ is not defeated
by the appeal from the county commissioners provided by article 5, section
84. Worcester County v. School Commissioners, 113 Md. 307.

1910, ch. 420, sec. 122 1/2 F (p. 227).

61. On or before the first day of October of each year the county
superintendent shall submit to the county school board a list of all
teachers employed, together with a classification of their certificates. In
determining the class of the certificates the following points are to
be considered: (a) scholarship; (b) executive ability; (c) personality,
and (d) teaching power. The county superintendent may add such
other requirements as may be approved by the state board of education
See sec. 73.

1904, art. 77, sec. 58. 1902, ch. 196, sec. 53 A and sec. 2. 1904, ch. 584.
1906, ch. 475 1/2. 1908, ch. 605.

62. Whenever any person in this State has taught in 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 with-