390 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 224

per month; provided, further, if such teacher holds a first
grade certificate of the first class and has taught in the
public schools for colored children in the State of Mary-
land for a period of five years, such teacher shall receive a
salary of not less than seventy-five dollars ($75) per
month; and provided, further, if such teacher holds a first
grade certificate of the first class and has taught in the
public schools for colored children in the State of Mary-
land for a period of eight years, such teacher shall receive
a salary of not less than eighty-five dollars ($85) per
month.

All elementary school teachers and principals in colored
schools employed on provisional certificates may be paid
five dollars ($5) per month less than the foregoing sched-
ule requires, and in any county such teachers and princi-
pals shall be paid at least five dollars ($5) per month less
than shall be paid in such counties to fully qualified ele-
mentary school teachers and principals in colored schools.

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 elementary school
teacher or principal regularly employed in the colored
schools 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 teacher and principal 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.

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scale are herewith repealed to the extent of their incon-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 $1800 to- $2399 shall be reduced by 12%
Salaries from $2400 to $2999 shall be reduced by 13%
Salaries from $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