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salaries prescribed, and such teachers and principals shall
be paid at least one hundred dollars ($100) less than fully
qualified teachers.

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 em-
ployed at the time this section goes into effect shall be di-
minished by reason of any of its provisions, but every teacher
or school principal shall be entitled to any increase in salary
that may herein be granted, from the time this section goes
into effect.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 126 of
Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Public
Education," sub-title "High Schools," as the same was re-
pealed and re-enacted by Chapter 105 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland of 1918, be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to. read as
follows:

126. For the encouragement of secondary education in
Maryland, the State shall extend aid to such groups of high
schools in such amounts and in such manner as hereinafter
designated and described. All high schools of the counties of
the State of Maryland receiving State aid shall be arranged
by the State Board of Education into three groups, to be
designated first group, second group and third group, accord-
ing to the number and average daily attendance of pupils en-
rolled, teachers employed, and number of years and quality
of instruction given. High schools of the first group shall
fulfill the following minimum requirements: (a) They shall
have an enrollment of not less than forty bona fide high school
pupils, and an average daily attendance of not less than
thirty pupils; (b) they shall employ not less than three full-
time teachers for the high school work: (c) they shall provide
a four years' course of instruction of not less than one hun-
dred and eighty actual school days in each year, the same to
conform to the standard required by the State Board of Edu-
cation. High schools of the .second group shall fulfill the
following minimum requirements: (a) They shall have an
enrollment of not less than twenty-five bona fide high school
pupils, and an average daily attendance of at least twenty-
pupils; (b) they shall employ not less than two full-time
teachers; (c) they shall provide a three years' course of in-