ART. 161] MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 923

entitled An Act regulating the qualifications of and salaries of
certain school teachers of the white public schools of Mont-
gomery county, Maryland, be and the same are hereby repealed
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the minimum salaries of principal teachers of the white -
public schools of Montgomery county, in schools where the aver-
age attendance is forty or more pupils and the corps of teachers
consist of a principal teacher and one regularly appointed
teacher, subordinate to the principal teacher, shall be five hun-
dred ($500.00) dollars for a school year, and in schools where
the corps of teachers consist of a principal teacher and more
than one regularly appointed teacher, subordinate to the prin-
cipal teacher, and there is an average 'attendance of forty
scholars for the first two teachers and forty for each addi-
tional teacher, the minimum salary of such principal teacher
shall be as many hundred dollars in excess of five hundred
($500.00) dollars per school year as there are additional regu-
larly appointed subordinate teachers in excess of one; the
salaries named may, in the discretion of the Board of County
School Commissioners of Montgomery county, be increased;
and in the event there shall be a deficiency in any year in the
revenues of the said Board of County School Commissioners,
the salaries of all teachers in said county may, in the discre-
tion of the said Board of County School Commissioners, be re-
duced during the period of such deficiency of revenues; pro-
vided, however, that nothing in this Act shall be construed so as
to prevent said Board of County School Commissioners from
fixing the salary of a principal teacher, from time to time at not
less than nine hundred ($900.00) dollars per school year in
schools in which there are five or more regularly employed as-
sistant teachers with the appropriate average as aforesaid

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of
this Act the principal teacher of a high school, in which there
is a grammar school department, shall be accounted a principal
teacher; and all of the other teachers, both in the high schools
and in the grammar school departments, who are subject to his
authority as principal of the whole school shall be accounted as
teachers subordinate to the high school principal teacher.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 3, 1908.

TAX ON MORTGAGES—See Chapter 283, page 242.