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further, if such teacher holds a high school teacher's certificate of the first
class, and has taught in an approved high school of the State of Maryland
for a period of five years, such teacher shall receive a salary of not less
than one thousand three hundred dollars ($1, 300) per school year; and
provided, further, if such teacher holds a high school teacher's certificate
of the first class and has taught in an approved high school of the State of
Maryland for a period of seven years, such teacher shall receive a salary
of not less than one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars ($1, 350) per
school year.

No white principal of a first group high school shall receive a salary of
less than one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars ($1, 550) per school
year; provided, that if such principal holds a high school principal's cer-
tificate of the first class and has served as principal of an approved high
school of the first group in the State of Maryland for a period of one year,
such principal shall receive a salary of at least one thousand six hundred
and fifty dollars ($1, 650) per school year; provided, such principal hold-
ing such Certificate has served as principal of an approved high school of
the first group in the State of Maryland for a period of three years, such
principal shall receive a salary of at least one thousand seven hundred and
fifty dollars ($1, 750) per school year; provided, if such principal holding
such certificate has served as principal of an approved high school of the
first group in the State of Maryland for a period of five years, such prin-
cipal shall receive a salary of at least one thousand eight hundred and fifty
dollars ($1, 850) per school year; provided, that if such principal holding
such certificate has served as principal of an approved high school of the
first group in the State of Maryland for a period of seven years, such prin-
cipal shall receive a salary of at least one thousand nine hundred and fifty

dollars ($1, 950) per school year. And provided, further, if a high school
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.