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of the first group 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 high school shall receive at least two
hundred dollars ($200) more per school year than the foregoing schedule
requires; if a high school of the first group employs ten full-time high
school teachers and has maintained an average daily attendance of two
hundred pupils during the preceding year, the principal of such high school
shall receive at least four hundred dollars ($400) more per school year
than the foregoing schedule requires.

The principal of a high school of the second group shall be paid at least
one hundred dollars ($100) more per school year than the minimum re-
quired for a regular high school teacher.

High school principals and teachers employed on provisional certificates
may be paid two hundred dollars ($200) per school year less than the fore-
going schedule requires, and in any county such principals and teachers
shall be paid at least two hundred dollars ($200) per school year less than
shall be paid in such county to fully qualified high school principals and
teachers.

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 teacher or principal regularly employed at the time
this section (as re-enacted in 1927) goes into effect shall be diminished by
reason of any of its provisions, but every high school teacher or principal
shall be entitled to any increase in salary that may herein be granted,
from the time this section (as re-enacted in 1927) goes into effect.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 196. 1912, sec. 127. 1908, ch. 635, sec. 122B. 1910, ch. 386,

sec. 122 (p. 229). 1916, ch. 506, sec. 127. 1920, ch. 118, sec. 127.

1929, ch. 519.

196. It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of Schools, or
an assistant designated by him, to make an annual inspection of all high
schools receiving State aid, and also such other schools as make applica-
tion, through their respective county superintendents, to receive said State
aid. The State Superintendent of Schools shall, on or before the last clay
of February of each year, prepare a list of high schools, designating the
group to which each belongs, the amount of said State aid to which each is
entitled, and to whom the same shall be paid. The preparation of this list
shall be based on information obtained through inspection, supervision,
written reports of the principal or county superintendent, or other reliable
sources. He shall certify this list to the Comptroller of the Treasury, on
or before the last day of February of each year, and the Comptroller of
the Treasury shall issue his warrant upon the Treasury of the State in
equal quarterly installments in each and every year at the time when the
general State school fund is now, or may hereafter be, distributed, payable
to the orders of the treasurers of the respective county boards of education,
or the Board of Commissioners of the Public Schools of Baltimore City,
for such sum or sums as they are entitled to receive under the provisions
of this Article, and shown by the certified list of high schools as aforesaid.