988 ARTICLE 77.
if such teacher holds a first 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 seventy dollars ($70) per month; provided, further, if such
teacher hold a first 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
seventy-five dollars ($75) per month; and provided, further, if such
teacher holds a, first 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 eight years, such teacher shall receive a salary of not less than eighty-
five dollars ($85) per month.
All elementary school teachers and principals in colored schools em-
ployed on provisional certificates may be paid five dollars ($5) per mouth
less than the foregoing schedule requires, and in any county such teachers
and principals shall be paid at least five dollars ($5) per month less than
shall be paid in such counties to fully qualified elementary school teachers
and principals in colored schools.
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 elementary school teacher or principal regularly employed in
the colored schools 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
teacher and principal 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.
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 salary scale of reduc-
tions, any and all other provisions of this section to the contrary notwith-
standing.
Salaries under $1, 200 shall be reduced by 10%.
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, 1936, and
ending August 31, 1937, any and all other provisions of this section to the
contrary notwithstanding.
An. Code, 1924. sec. 203. 1920. ch. 118, sec. 132B. 1922, ch. 382. sec. 132B.
1933. ch. 224. sec. 203. 1935. ch. 477. sec. 203.
203. No teacher regularly employed in an approved high school for
colored children in the State of Maryland shall receive a salary of less
than eighty dollars ($80) per month; provided, that if such teacher holds
a high school teacher's certificate of the first class and has taught in an
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