PUBLIC EDUCATION. 985

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 prin-
cipal 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.

All salaries as hereinbefore set forth in this section shall be reduced for
the fiscal year beginning September 1, 1935, and ending August 31, 1936,
and for the fiscal year beginning September 1, 1936, and ending August
31, 1937, in accordance with the following annual scale of reductions,
any and all other provisions of this section notwithstanding:

Salaries under $1, 200 shall be reduced by 10%.

Salaries from $1, 200 to $1, 799 shall be reduced by 11%.

Salaries from $1, 800 to $2, 399 shall he reduced by 12%.

All provisions of this section creating any salary increase because of
length of teaching experience due to employment during one or more years
between September 1, 1932, and August 31, 1936, are suspended and
non-operative for the fiscal year beginning September 1, 1935, and ending-
August 31, 1936, and for the fiscal year beginning September 1, 193G,
and ending August 31, 1937, any and all other provisions of this section
to the contrary notwithstanding.

An Code, 1024, 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 day
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.
Provided, that not more than one high school shall be. granted State aid
under the provisions of this Article in the same village, town or city, unless