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struction has been so extended to a four-year course, the gradu-
ates shall receive the same recognition as graduates of schools
of the first group. No promotions of high school pupils from
one grade to another, or graduation, shall be made without the
approval of the principal and the county superintendent.

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

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 106.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 60
of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title
"Public Education, " sub-title "Teachers' Certificates, Sala-
ries and Pensions, " as the same was repealed and re-enacted
by Chapter 506 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland passed in the year 1916, so as to provide increases
in the minimum salaries of white teachers in the public
schools of this State, and so as to provide minimum salaries
for white elementary school principals.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 60 of Article 77 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, title "Public Education, " sub-title "Teach-
ers' Certificates, Salaries and Pensions, " as the same was re-
pealed and re-enacted by Chapter 506 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland passed in the year 1916, be and
the same hereby is repealed and re-enacted with amendments,
so as to read as follows:

60. No white teacher regularly employed in a public school
of the State of Maryland shall receive a salary of less than
four hundred dollars ($400) per school year. Provided, if
such a teacher holds a third grade certificate of the first class
and has taught in the public schools of the State of Maryland
for a period of three years, such teacher shall receive a salary
of not less than four hundred and twenty-five dollars ($425)
per school year. Provided, further, if such a teacher holds a
third grade certificate of the first class and has taught in the
public schools of Maryland for a period of five years, such
teacher shall receive a salary of not less than four hundred
and fifty dollars ($450) per school year. Provided, that no
white teacher regularly employed in a public school of the
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