2950 ARTICLE 77

entire time to their duties. But the qualification of all appointees, their
tenure and compensation, except as may hereinafter be provided, shall be
determined by the county board of education. The office of the county
superintendent of schools shall, beginning with the school year 1922-1923,
be provided as follows with the professional, clerical, statistical and steno-
graphic assistants, provided that all professional, clerical, statistical and
stenographic assistants holding office at the time of the enactment of this
section shall continue to serve to the end of the terms for which they were
originally appointed, and until their successors qualify, unless removed
as herein provided; and provided, further, that they shall be paid, be-
ginning with the school year 1922-1923, on the basis of the salaries herein
specified:

(1) In each county employing less than eighty (80) teachers in the
white elementary schools, there shall be appointed one supervising teacher
or helping teacher; in each county employing eighty (80) but less than
one hundred and twenty (120) teachers in the white elementary schools,
there shall be appointed two supervising teachers or helping teachers; in
each county employing one hundred and twenty (120) but not more than
one hundred and sixty (160) teachers in the white elementary schools,
there shall be appointed three supervising teachers or helping teachers;
in each county employing more than one hundred and sixty (160) teachers
in the white elementary schools, there shall be appointed one supervising
teacher or helping teacher for each additional fifty (50) teachers or major
fraction thereof in the white elementary schools; and these supervising
teachers or helping teachers shall receive such compensation as the county
board of education shall direct; provided that no person shall be eligible
for appointment as supervising teacher or helping teacher who does, not
hold from the State Superintendent of Schools a certificate in supervision
as provided for in Section 88 of this Article; nor shall the appointment
of any person by a county board of education as supervising teacher or
helping teacher be valid without the written approval of the State Super-
intendent of Schools. And provided, further, that no supervising teacher,
appointed under the provisions of this section or continued in office under
the provisions of this section, shall be paid an annual salary of less than
two thousand and forty dollars ($2,040), and if he or she has acted as
supervising teacher in the State of Maryland for a period of four years,
he or she shall be paid an annual salary of not less than two thousand
three hundred and forty dollars ($2,340); and if he or she has acted as
supervising teacher in the State of Maryland for a period of seven years,
he or she shall be paid an annual salary of not less than two thousand
six hundred and forty dollars ($2,640). With the approval of the. State
Superintendent of Schools, county boards of education may employ helping
teachers under the conditions for supervising teachers prescribed in this
section at an annual salary of six hundred dollars ($600) less than that
paid to supervising teachers. The State of Maryland shall pay, as here-
inafter provided, out of the General State School Fund to the treasurer
of the county board of education two-thirds of the annual salaries of the
supervising teachers or helping teachers required by this section. County
boards of education are free to employ as many additional supervising
teachers or helping teachers as in their judgment are necessary, but the
State shall not share in the payment of their salaries. The State of Mary-
land shall pay, as hereinafter provided, to the Board of School Commis-