PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1335

have gained sufficient credits from summer school or special
training courses as may satisfy the State Department of Educa-
tion that said credits are equivalent to graduation from a normal
school, and that the instruction of such teacher is equal in value
and efficiency to that of a graduate of a normal school and so
certified by the State Department of Education to the Board
of County School Commissioners of the County where such
person is employed as teacher shall receive as a salary not less
than four hundred dollars ($400) per annum; and after hav-
ing taught for a period of three years in any of the public
schools of the State of Maryland shall receive as salary not
less than four hundred and fifty dollars ($450) per annum; if
such teacher has taught as above for a period of five years, he
or she shall receive as salary not less than five hundred dollars
($500) per annum; if such teacher has taught as above for a
period of eight years, he or she shall receive as salary not less
than five hundred and fifty dollars ($550) per annum; pro-
vided this Section shall apply only to teachers whose diplomas
of certificates are rated as first-class by the County Super-
intendent of the County in which the teacher is employed. The
County Commissioners of each County shall levy sufficient funds
to meet the increase of salaries provided for in this Section.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect August.
1, 1914.

Approved April 13th, 1914.

CHAPTER 760.

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
to condemn a strip of ground, not exceeding one hundred
feet in width, upon the western side of the property of the
Western Cemetery Company and along the east side of
Gwynns Falls, from Edmondson avenue to the old mill race
leading from the dam situate south of Edmondson avenue,,
for the purpose of continuing a highway to be constructed
over said mill race from Frederick Road to Franklin road.

WHEREAS, The Trustees of the Fayette Street Methodist
Episcopal Church are the owners of a large tract of land on
the east side of Gwynns Falls, containing 59 acres, more or less,
the larger portion of which is used as the Western Cemetery,
and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are the owners
of a strip of land on the west side of Gwynns Falls, including