990 ARTICLE 77.

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. ¹

Chapter 19. Source and Distribution of Income.

An. Code. 1924, sec. 204. 1912, sec. 133. 1904. sec. 126. 1888, sec. 98. 1872, ch. 377.

1902, ch. 306. 1904. ch. 584. 1916, ch. 506, sec. 133.

1922. ch. 382, sec. 133. 1933, ch. 261.

204. All money appropriated, subsequent to the enactment of this
section, by the General Assembly of the State of Maryland and the receipts
from any State public school tax levied by the General Assembly, to aid
in support of public schools, shall constitute what shall be known as the
General State School Fund. The Comptroller shall charge against and
pay as hereinbefore or hereinafter provided from the General State School
Fund, the annual appropriation made by the General Assembly for the
support of the State Department of Education, including the expenses of
the State Board of Education, and the support and expenses of the office
of the State Superintendent of Schools; the annual appropriation for the
maintenance and support of the State normal school at Towson, of the
State normal school No. 2 at Frostburg, and of the State normal school
No. 3 at Bowie, the annual appropriation for retired teachers' pensions;
the annual appropriation for State aid to approved high schools; the
annual appropriation for State aid to approved colored industrial schools;
the annual appropriation for part payment by the State of the salaries of
county superintendents and of the superintendent of schools of Baltimore
City, and of supervising teachers or helping teachers, in each of the several
counties and the City of Baltimore; the annual appropriation for payment
by the State of the entire -salary of one attendance officer in each of the
several counties and the City of Baltimore; the annual appropriation for
the purchase of text books, materials of instruction and school supplies;
such special appropriations to be known as an Equalization Fund, as may
from time to time, be made by Budget Bill or Supplementary Appropria-
tion Bill, to the county boards of education of certain counties to enable
them to pay the minimum salaries prescribed in this Article for county

i Sec. 6, ch. 477, acts of 1935, reads as follows: The Governor and/or the Board of
Public Works are hereby authorized, empowered and requested to pay out of any of
the contingent funds in the budget, the cost of the bus transportation for the public
schools of Maryland, the said payment to be made into the "'Equalization Fund, "
and to be distributed through it as now provided by statute. And the Governor
and/or the Board of Public Works are further authorized, empowered and re-
quested, if any budget funds are available, to restore the schedule of teacher's
salaries, hereinbefore prescribed to the extent of one half of the respective amount
so specified.