1032 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 506

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
fifty dollars ($450) per school year. Provided, further, if
such a teacher holds a first 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
five hundred dollars ($500) per school year. And provided,
further, if such a teacher holds a first grade certificate of the
first class and has taught in the public schools of the State of
Maryland for a period of eight years, such a teacher shall re-
ceive a salary of not less than five hundred and fifty dollars
($550) per school year.

The boards of county commissioners of each county shall levy
sufficient funds to meet the scale of salaries provided for in this
section; and the salary of no teacher regularly employed at the
time this section goes into effect shall be diminished by reason
of any of its provisions, but every teacher shall be entitled to
any increase in salary that may herein be granted, from the
time this section goes into effect.

62. Whenever any person in this State has taught in any
of the public or normal schools thereof twenty-five years, and
has reached the age of sixty years, and his or her record as such
teacher has been without reproach, and by reason of physical
or mental disability or infirmity is unable to teach longer, and
who, moreover, is without the means of comfortable support,
such person may lay his or her case before the state superin-
tendent of schools, supported by the recommendation of the
county board of education of the county in which such person
has last taught, and the state superintendent of schools shall
proceed to consider the same, and if the facts are found as
above stated such person shall be placed on a list, to be known
as the "Teachers' Retired List, " and every person so placed on
this list shall be entitled to receive a pension from the State of
two hundred dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly by the
Treasurer of. the State Board of Education, so long as such
pensioner is without other means of comfortable support, and
the state superintendent of schools may in extraordinary cases
waive the age limit as herein designated. Provided, however,
the applicant has all the other qualifications as herein specified.
The treasurer of the state board of education shall, on or be-
fore the last day of September, December, March and June of
each year, certify to the Comptroller the sum of money neces-