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an average daily attendance of one hundred pupils and State
aid shall not be allowed for the sixth, or any additional
teacher, unless for each of such additional teachers there are
twenty-five additional pupils in average daily attendance.
State aid on account of any high school principal or teacher
shall not exceed one-half of the salary paid to such principal
or teacher.

SECTION 5. And be it further enacted, That Section 132-A
of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Pub-
lic Education," sub-title "Schools for Colored Children,"
as the same was repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 81 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1918, be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so
as to read as follows:

132-A. No teacher regularly employed in the public schools
for colored children in the State of Maryland shall receive a
salary of less than forty dollars ($40) per month; provided
that any such teacher holding a second grade certificate shall
receive a salary of not less than fifty ($50) dollars per month ;
and provided, further, that any such teacher holding a first-
grade certificate shall receive a salary of not less than sixty-
five dollars ($65) per month; provided, that teachers in col-
ored schools employed on provisional certificates may be paid
five dollars a month less than fully qualified teachers.

SECTION 6. And be it further enacted, That a new section
is hereby added to Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land, to be known a.s Section 132-B of Article 77 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland, title "Public Education." sub-title
"Schools for Colored Children." said new section to follow
immediately after Section 132A of said Article, and to read
as follows:

132-B. No assistant teacher regularly employed in an ap-
proved high school for colored children in the State of Mary-
land shall receive a salary less than seventy-five dollars ($75)
per month. No principal regularly employed in an approved
high school for colored children in the State of Maryland
shall receive a. salary of less than ninety dollars ($90) per
month. Provided that principals and assistant teachers in
all high schools for colored children, employed on provisional
certificate's, may be paid ten dollars ($10) per month less than
the foregoing schedule requires. High schools for colored
children shall be kept open not less than one hundred and