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colored children employs six full-time high school teachers and has main-
tained an average daily attendance of one hundred pupils during the pre-
ceding year, the principal of such school shall receive ten dollars ($10)
per month more than the foregoing schedule requires.

Principals and teachers in all high schools for colored children, em-
ployed on provisional certificates, may be paid ten dollars ($10) per month
less than the foregoing schedule requires, and in any county such princi-
pals and teachers shall be paid at least ten dollars ($10) per month less
than shall be paid in such county to fully qualified principals and teachers
in high schools for colored children.

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 high school principal or teacher regularly employed in the
approved high schools for colored children 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 high school principal or teacher 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.

High schools for colored children shall be kept open not less than one
hundred and sixty (160) actual schools days in each year; and such high
schools shall be entitled to State aid when approved by the State Board
of Education as provided for other high schools.

Chapter 19. Source and Distribution of Income.

An. Code, sec. 133. 1904, sec. 126. 1888. sec. 98. 1872, ch. 377. 1902, ch. 306. 1904, ch. 584.
1916, ch. 506, sec. 133. 1922, ch. 382, sec. 133.

204. All money appropriated, subsequent to the enactment of this
section, by the General Assembly of the State of Maryland and the re-
ceipts from any State public school tax levied by the General Assembly, to
aid in support of public schools, shall constitute what shall be known as
the General State School Fund. The Comptroller shall charge against
and pay as hereinbefore or hereinafter provided from the General State
School Fund, the annual appropriation made by the General Assembly
for the support of the State Department of Education, including the ex-
penses of the State Board of Education, and the support and expenses of
the office of the State Superintendent of Schools; the annual appropria-
tion for the maintenance and support of the state normal school at Towson,
of the state normal school No. 2 at Frostburg, and of. the state normal
school No. 3 at Bowie, the annual appropriation for retired teachers' pen-
sions; the annual appropriation for state aid to approved high schools;
the annual appropriation for state aid to approved colored industrial
schools; the annual appropriation for part payment by the State of the
salaries of county superintendents and of the Superintendent of Schools
of Baltimore City, and of supervising teachers or helping teachers, in
each of the several counties and the City of Baltimore; the annual appro-
priation for payment by the State of the entire salary of one attendance
officer in each of the several counties and the City of Baltimore; the annual
appropriation for the purchase of textbooks, materials of instruction and