134 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 81

"Teachers, " as the said section was repealed and re-enacted
with amendments by Section 62 of Chapter 506 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland of the Session of 1916.

(Vetoed. )

CHAPTER 81.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 77 of the An-
notated Code of Maryland, title "Public Education. " sub-
title "Schools for Colored Children, " to follow immediately
after Section 132 of said Article and sub-section, to be
known as Section 132-A, and the same providing minimum
and average salaries for teachers in public schools for colored
children in this State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That an additional section be and the same hereby
is added to Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title
"Public Education, " sub-title "Schools for Colored Children, "
to follow immediately after section 132 of said Article and
sub-section, to be known as section 132-A, and the same to read
as follows:

132-A. No teacher regularly employed in the public schools
for colored children in the State of Maryland shall receive a
salary of less than thirty dollars ($30. ) per month; provided
that any such teacher holding a second grade certificate shall
receive a salary of not less than thirty-five dollars ($35. ) per
month; and provided, further, that any such teacher holding
a first grade certificate shall receive a salary of not less than
forty dollars ($40. ) per month.

The average of the annual salaries paid all teachers regularly
employed in the public schools for colored children in any
county of this State having a seven months' school term for
colored children, shall not be less than two hundred and fifty
dollars ($250) in any such county.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from and after June 1, 1918.

April 2nd, 1918.