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regulations prescribed by the State Board of Education. State aid on ac-
count of any high school principal or teacher shall not exceed one-half of
the salary paid to such principal or teacher.

An. Code, 1924. sec. 198. 1912, sec. 129. 1910, ch. 386. sec. 123A (p. 231).
1916, ch. 506. sec. 129. 1927. ch. 121. sec. 198.

198. All certificates or diplomas issued to students having completed
a course of study in a county high school shall show the group to which said
high school belongs, the course taken by the students, and the number of
years of instruction given. Any State-supported or State-aided institution
of higher learning shall accept as a student any graduate of an approved
public high school who is certified by the high school principal as having
the qualifications to pursue a course of study in the particular institution
of higher learning, said qualifications being based upon standards deter-
mined, for graduates of the county high schools, by the State Board of
Education and for the graduates of the Baltimore City high schools, by the
Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City; or who shows, by pass-
ing examinations set by the particular State-aided or State-supported insti-
tution of higher learning, that he or she has the qualifications to pursue
a course of study in that institution.

Chapter 18. Schools for Colored Children.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 202. 1912, sec. 132A. 1918. ch. 81. sec. 132A. 1920, ch. 118,

sec. 132A. 1922, ch. 382. sec. 132A. 1933. ch. 224, sec. 202.

1935, ch. 477, sec. 202.

202. No teacher regularly employed in the public schools for colored
children in the State of Maryland shall receive a salary of less than forty
dollars ($40) per month; provided, that if such teacher holds a third
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 three years,
such teacher shall receive a salary of not less than forty-five dollars ($45)
per month.

No teacher regularly employed in the public schools for colored chil-
dren in the State of Maryland, holding a second grade certificate, shall
receive a salary of less than fifty dollars ($50) per mouth; provided, that
if such teacher holds a second grade certificate of the first class and has
taught in the public schools for colored children in the State of Mary-
land for a period of three years, such teacher shall receive a salary of
not less than fifty-five dollars ($55) per month; provided, further, if
such teacher holds a second 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 sixty dollars ($60) per month.

No teacher regularly employed in the public schools for colored chil-
dren in the State of Maryland, holding a first grade certificate, shall
receive a salary of less than sixty-five dollars ($65) per month; provided,