ART. 77] PUBLIC EDUCATION. 813

Chapter 8. Teachers.

1904, art. 77, sec. 52. 1888, art. 77, sec. 48. 1872, ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584.

1914, ch. 85.

53. No person shall be employed as a teacher under this Article
unless such person shall hold a certificate of qualification (a) issued by
the superintendent of the County in which he or she proposes to teach;
(b) a diploma of a State Normal School of Maryland, or of the normal
department of Washington College; (c) a diploma of a standard nor-
mal school of another State, which has been endorsed by the State
Superintendent of Public Education; (d) a diploma of a reputable
college or university maintaining a department of pedagogy or educa-
tion, which has been approved by the State Superintendent of Public
Education of Maryland; (e) in the case of high school teachers, the
diploma of a standard college the work of which included instruction
in pedagogy satisfactory to the State Superintendent of Public Educa-
tion; or (f) a certificate from the State Board of Education; as herein
provided, and after June 1, 1915, no person who has not been pre-
viously regularly employed as a teacher shall be appointed a teacher
without having had special pedagogic training of at least five weeks in
an approved summer school, or its equivalent.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 2 of the Anno-
tated Code.

Ibid. sec. 57. 1888, art. 77, sec. 53. 1872, ch. 377. 1904, ch. 584.
1912, ch. 138.

59. The salaries of the teachers of each county shall be fixed by the
Board of County School Commissioners, subject to the provisions of
any public local law or public general law now in force or hereafter
to be passed, provided, that no whit© teacher regularly employed in a
public school of the State of Maryland, having an average attendance
of ten or more pupils, shall receive as salary less than three hundred
dollars per school year, provided Garrett county shall be exempted from
the provisions of this section.*

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 2 of the Anno-
tated Code.

1914, ch. 759.

60A. Any white teacher regularly employed as a teacher in the
public schools of Maryland, holding a diploma of a standard normal
school or a diploma of the department of pedagogy or education of a
standard college or university which has the approval of the State
Superintendent of Education, or who shall have gained sufficient credits
from summer school or special training courses as may satisfy the
State Department of Education that said credits are equivalent to
graduation from a normal school, and that the instruction of such
teacher is equal in value and efficiency to that of a graduate of a normal

*The act of 1912. chapter 138, went into effect August 1, 1912.