EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 631

the end of said scholastic year, whose annual salary is less than
$600.00, shall, as additional compensation, receive from the
State one-half of the difference between such annual salary and
the sum of $600.00, provided that the additional compensation
so to be paid by the State shall not exceed the sum of $50.00 in
the case of any such teacher, and provided that any such teach-
er regularly employed for one month or more but less than
nine months and who is in service at the end of the said scho-
lastic year shall receive a proportionate part of said additional
compensation; but provided further that, notwithstanding any-
thing herein contained to the contrary, the actual amount of
such payments shall be subject to the provisions of Section 4
of this Act; and the several counties of this State and the City
of Baltimore are hereby requested, (without however, impos-
ing upon them any legal obligation so to do), to provide for
the payment to said teachers of an amount equal to the amount
paid by the State under this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That each teacher regu-
larly employed in, the public schools of this State for colored
children, during the scholastic year 1917-1918, for not less than
seven months, and in service at the end of said scholastic year,
and whose annual salary is less than $600.00, shall, as ad-
ditional compensation, receive from the State one-half of the
difference between such annual salary and the sum of $600.00,
provided that the additional compensation so to be paid by the
State shall not exceed the sum of $25.00 in the case of any
such teacher, and provided that any such teacher regularly em-
ployed for one month or more but less than seven months and
who is in service at the end of the said scholastic year shall re-
ceive a proportionate part of said additional compensation; but
provided further that, notwithstanding anything herein con-
tained to the contrary, the actual amount of such payments
shall be subject to the provisions of Section 4 of this Act; and
the several counties of this State and the City of Baltimore are
hereby requested, (without, however, imposing upon them any
legal obligation so to do), to provide for the payment to said
teachers of an amount equal to the amount paid by the State
under this Act.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That immediately upon
the close of the said 1917-1918 scholastic year, the several
County Superintendents of Schools1 and the Superintendent of
Public Instruction of Baltimore City shall certify to the State
Superintendent of Schools a list of all of the teachers, within