PUBLIC EDUCATION. 989

approved high school for colored children in the State of Maryland for
a period of three years, such teacher shall receive a salary of not less than
ninety dollars ($90) per month; provided, further, if such teacher holds
a high school teacher's certificate of the first class and has taught in an
approved high school for colored children in the State of Maryland for a
period of six years, such teacher shall receive a salary of not less than
ninety-five dollars ($95) per month.

No principal regularly employed in an approved high school for colored
children in the State of Maryland shall receive a salary of less than
ninety-five dollars ($95) per month; provided, that if such principal
holds a high school principal's certificate of the first class and has served
as principal of an approved high school for colored children in the State
of Maryland for a period of three years, such principal shall receive a
salary of not less than one hundred and ten dollars ($110) per month;
provided, further, 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 for colored children in the State of Maryland for a period of six
years, such principal shall receive a salary of not less than one hundred
and twenty dollars ($120) per month; and provided, further, if an
approved high school for colored children employs six full-time high
school teachers and has maintained an average daily attendance of one
hundred pupils during the preceding year, the principal of such school
shall receive ten dollars ($10) per month more than the foregoing schedule
requires.

Principals and teachers in all high schools for colored children, em-
ployed on provisional certificates, may be paid ten dollars ($10) per
month less than the foregoing schedule requires, and in any county such
principals and teachers shall be paid at least ten dollars ($10) per month
less than shall be paid in such county to fully qualified principals and
teachers in high schools for colored children.

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 principal or teacher regularly employed in the
approved high schools for colored children 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 such high school principal or teacher 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.

High schools for colored children shall be kept open not less than one
hundred and sixty (160) actual school days in each year, and such high
schools shall be entitled to State aid when approved by the State Board
of Education as provided for other high schools.

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: