PUBLIC EDUCATION. 2489

attendance officers as in their judgment are necessary, subject to the ap-
proval of the State Superintendent of Schools, but the State shall not
share in the payment of their salaries. Provided that the State Board of
Education in its discretion may excuse any county from employing an
attendance officer and may designate the county superintendent of schools,
the supervising teacher or the helping teacher to perform the duties of
the attendance officer, and when so designated the amount allowed each
county for such work shall be used for general school purposes.

(3) There shall be employed in each county at least one statistical and
stenographic clerk.

(4) And such other clerical, statistical, and stenographic assistants
and such other professional assistants, assistant superintendents, super-
vising teachers, helping teachers, attendance officers, medical inspectors
and school nurses as the county board of education shall authorize; pro-
vided that no professional assistant shall be appointed who does not hold
the appropriate certificate issued by the State Superintendent of Schools,
and the appointment of no professional assistant shall be valid without
the written approval of the State Superintendent of Schools.

The board of county commissioners of each county shall levy sufficient
funds to meet the scale of salaries provided for in this section and shall
not deny any part of the amount requested for any one school year by
the county board of education to be raised by local taxation for the pay-
ment of the salaries of the professional and clerical assistants of the
county superintendent; and the salary of no supervising teacher, help-
ing teacher, or attendance officer, regularly employed at the time this
section (as re-enacted in 1922) goes into effect, shall be diminished by
reason of any of its provisions, but they shall be entitled to any increase
in salary that may herein be granted from the time this section (as re-
enacted in 1922) goes into effect.

A by-law adopted by the state board under sec. 11, construed in connection with
this section. School Commissioners v. Wagaman, 84 Md. 161.

An. Code, sec. 74. 1904, sec. 70. 1888, sec. 64. 1872, ch. 377. 1894, ch. 378.
1916, ch. 506, sec. 74. 1922, ch. 382, sec. 74.

146. The county board of education shall provide the office of the
county superintendent of schools with ample, convenient, and comfor-
table quarters, and with adequate clerical equipment; and the county
superintendent of schools and his professional assistants shall be pro-
vided with such means of transportation as are necessary for the effective
and efficient performance of their official duties. They shall be reimbursed
for all actual and necessary traveling and other expenses and disburse-
ments incurred or made by them in the performance of their official
duties, and no part of the traveling or personal expenses of the county
superintendent and his professional assistants incurred in the perform-
ance of their official duties shall be included in or counted as a part of
their annual salary.

The board of county commissioners of each county shall not deny any
part of the amount requested for any one school year by the county board