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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 his 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:

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

See notes to Sec. 111.

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. 1939, ch. 514.

196. All money appropriated, subsequent to the enactment of this sec-
tion, 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 Gen-
eral 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 sup-
port 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 main-
tenance 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 teacher's 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 superintendents of schools of Baltimore
City, and of supervising teachers or helping teachers, in each of the several

¹Sec. 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 requested,
if any budget funds are available, to restore the schedule of teacher's salaries,
hereinbefore prescribed to the extent of cne half of the respective amount so specified.