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than seventy dollars ($70) per month; provided, further, if such teacher
holds a first grade certificate of the first class and has taught in the public
schools for colored children in the State of Maryland for a period of five
years, such teacher shall receive a salary of not less than seventy-five dol-
lars ($75) per month; and provided, further, if such teacher holds a
first grade certificate of the first class and has taught in the public schools
for colored children in the State of Maryland for a period of eight years,
such teacher shall receive a salary of not less than eighty-five dollars ($85)
per month.

All elementary school teachers and principals in colored schools em-
ployed on provisional certificates may be paid five dollars ($5) per month
less than the foregoing schedule requires, and in any county such teachers
and principals shall be paid at least five dollars ($5) per month less than
shall be paid in such counties to fully qualified elementary school teachers
and principals in colored 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 the
salary of no elementary school teacher or principal regularly employed
in the colored schools at the time this section (as re-enacted in 1922) goes
into effect shall be diminished by reason of any of its provisions, but every
such teacher and principal 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.

1920, ch. 118, sec. 132B. 1922, ch. 382, sec. 132B.

203. No teacher regularly employed in an approved high school for
colored children in the State of Maryland shall receive a salary of less
than eighty dollars ($80) per month; provided that if such teacher holds
a high school teacher's certificate of the first class and has taught in an
approved high school for colored children in the State of Maryland for a
period of three years, such teacher shall receive a salary of not less than
ninety dollars ($90) per month; provided, further, if such teacher holds
a high school teacher's certificate of the first class and has taught in an
approved high school for colored children in the State of Maryland for
a period of six years, such teacher shall receive a salary of not less than
ninety-five dollars ($95) per month.

No principal regularly employed in an approved high school for colored
children in the State of Maryland shall receive a salary of less than ninety-
five dollars ($95) per month; provided that if such principal holds a
high school principal's certificate of the first class and has served as prin-
cipal of an approved high school for colored children in the State of Mary-
land for a period of three years, such principal shall receive a salary of
not less than one hundred and ten dollars ($110) per month; provided,
further, if such principal holds a high school principal's certificate of the
first class and has served as principal of an approved high school for colored
children in the State of Maryland for a period of six years, such princi-
pal shall receive a salary of not less than one hundred and twenty dollars
($120) per month; and provided, further, if an approved high school for