EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 597

taught three years in the high schools of Allegany County, such
principal shall receive a salary of not less than sixteen hundred
dollars ($1600.00) per school year. Provided, if such prin-
cipal holds a first-class State high school principal's certificate,
and has taught five years in the high schools of Allegany
County, such principal shall receive a salary of not less than
seventeen hundred dollars ($1700.00) per school year. Pro-
vided, if' such principal holds a first-class State high school
principal's certificate, and has taught eight years in the high
schools of Allegany County, such principal shall receive a sal-
ary of not less than eighteen hundred dollars ($1800.00) per
school year. Provided, if such principal holds a first-class
State high school principal's certificate, and has taught eleven
years in the high schools of Allegany County, such principal
shall receive a salary of not less than nineteen hundred dollars
($1900.00) per school year. Provided, if such principal holds
a first-class State high school principal's certificate, and has
taught fifteen years in the public high schools of Allegany
County, such principal shall receive a salary of not less than
two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per school year.

SEC. 8. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That no teacher of colored children regularly employed
in the public schools of Allegany County shall receive a salary
of less than four hundred dollars ($400.00) per school year.
Provided, if such teacher holds a third-grade State certificate
of the first class, and has taught three years in the public
schools of Allegany County, such teacher shall receive a salary
of not less than four hundred and fifty dollars ($450.00) per
school year. Provided, if such teacher holds a third-grade
State certificate of the first class, and has taught five years in
the public schools of Allegany County, such teacher shall re-
ceive a salary of not les,s than five hundred dollars ($500.00)
per school year. Provided, if such teacher holds a third-grade
State certificate of the first class, and has taught eight years in
the public schools of Allegany County, such teacher shall re-
ceive a salary of not less than five hundred and fifty dollars
($550.00) per school year. Provided, if such teacher holds
a third-grade State certificate of the first class, and has taught
eleven years in the public schools of Allegany County, such
teacher shall receive a salary of not less than six hundred dol-
lars ($600.00) per school year. Provided, if such teacher
holds a third-grade State certificate of the first class, and has
taught fifteen years in the public schools of Allegany County,