388 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 224

dollars ($400) more per school year than the foregoing
schedule requires.

The principal of a high school of the second group shall
be paid at least one hundred dollars ($100) more per
school year than the minimum required for a regular high
school teacher.

High school principals and teachers employed on pro-
visional certificates may be paid two hundred dollars
($200) per school year less than the foregoing schedule
requires, and in any county such principals and teachers
shall be paid at least two hundred dollars ($200) per
school year less than shall be paid in such county to fully
qualified high school principals and teachers.

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 teacher
or principal regularly employed at the time this section
(as re-enacted in 1927) goes into effect shall be diminished
by reason of any of its provisions, but every high school
teacher or principal shall be entitled to any increase in
salary that may herein be granted, from the time this sec-
tion (as re-enacted in 1927) goes into effect.

All salaries as hereinbefore set forth in this section shall
be reduced for the fiscal year beginning October 1st, 1933,
and ending September 30th, 1934, and for the fiscal year
beginning October 1st, 1934, and ending September 30th,
1935, in accordance with the following annual salary scale
of reduction, any and all other provisions of this section
to the contrary notwithstanding; and any and all other
provisions of this section or any other section of this Arti-
cle, inconsistent with the salaries as determined by this
scale are herewith repealed to the extent of their incon-
sistency during the fiscal years as herein set forth:
Salaries under $1200 shall be reduced by 10%
Salaries from $1200 to $1799 shall be reduced by 11%
Salaries from S; i800 to $2399 shall be reduced by 12%
Salaries from 152400 to $2999 shall be reduced by 13%
Salaries from i>3000 to $3599 shall be reduced by 14%
Salaries of $3600 and over shall be reduced by 15%
The reductions in salaries provided by the above scale
shall be computed upon the salary schedule of the school
year beginning as of September, 1932, and ending as of
June, 1933. All provisions of the above section creating
any salary increase because of length of teaching experi-
ence, service, employment, or for any other reason, are sus-
pended and non-operative for the fiscal year beginning
October 1st, 1933, and ending September 30th, 1934, and