990 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 488

1916, Chapter 506, be and the same is hereby repealed and.
re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows:

Section 138. After all deductions are made from the Gen-
eral State School Fund as provided for in Section 138 of this-
Article, the Comptroller shall next apportion the sum of $15,-
000.00, or so much thereof as may be necessary, as State aid
to such third group of high schools, as may be established by
the State Board of Education, the same to be in addition to
the two groups provided for in Section 126 of this Article, and
high schools included within such third group shall fulfill the
following minimum requirements: (a) they shall have an
enrollment of not less than twenty-five pupils, and an average
daily attendance of not less than twenty pupils; (b) they shall
employ not less than two regular academic teachers; (c) and
in other respects they shall fulfill the minimum requirements
prescribed by Section 126 of this Article for high schools of
the second group, except the requirements set forth in sub-
division (e) therefor. The said sum of $15,000.00 apportioned
as State aid to the third group of high schools, shall be dis-
tributed among the schools in said group as follows: A sum
equal to one-half the salary of the principal teacher, but not
to exceed the sum of $500.00, and a sum equal to one-half the-
salary of the second teacher, but not to exceed the sun of
$400.00. After provision has thus been made for such third
group of high schools as may be established as aforesaid, then
the Comptroller shall apportion on or before the last day of
September, the remainder of the General State School Fund
of each year to the several counties and the City of Baltimore,
as follows: Two-thirds shall be apportioned on the basis of the
population between the ages of six and fourteen years as given
by the latest available biennial school census required by Sec-
tions 21B, 25M and 75 of this Article; provided, that the lat-
est Federal Census shall be employed until the biennial school
census becomes available; and one-third shall be apportioned
upon the basis of the aggregate days of school attendance dur-
ing the preceding school year as certified to by the State Super-
intendent of Schools, provided that the attendance of pupils
in a State-aided high school shall not be counted in apportion-
ing the General State School Fund.

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

Approved April 10th, 1918.