392 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 224

of the first class and has served as principal of an approved
high school for colored children in the State of Maryland
for a period of six years, such principal shall receive a
salary of not less than one hundred and twenty dollars
($120) per month; and provided, further, 'if an approved
high school for colored children employs six full-time high
school teachers and has maintained an average daily at-
tendance of one hundred pupils during the preceding year,
the principal of such school shall receive ten dollars ($10)
per month more than the foregoing schedule requires.

Principals and teachers in all high schools for colored
children, employed on provisional certificates, may be paid
ten dollars ($10) per month less than the foregoing sched-
ule requires; and in any county such principals and teach-
ers shall be paid at least ten dollars ($10) per month less
than shall be paid in such county to fully qualified princi-
pals and teachers in high schools for colored children.

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 prin-
cipal or teacher regularly employed in the 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 its 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 sec-
tion (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 October 1, 1933,
and ending September 30th, 1934, and for the fiscal year
beginning October 1, 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 pro-
visions of this section or any other section of this Article,
inconsistent with the salaries as determined by this scale
are herewith repealed to the extent of their inconsistency
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%

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