ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 839

and has taught in the public schools of the State of Maryland
for a period of five years such teacher shall receive a salary
of not less than eight hundred and fifty dollars ($850) per
school year.

No white teacher regularly employed in a public school of
the State of Maryland, holding a first grade certificate, shall
receive a salary of less than nine hundred and fifty dollars

($950) per school year. Provided, 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 three
years, such teacher shall receive a salary of not less than one
thousand and fifty dollars ($1,050) per school year. Pro-
vided, 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 five years, such teacher shall
receive a salary of not less than eleven hundred dollars ($1,-
100) 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 the State of Maryland for a period of
eight years, such teacher shall receive a salary of not less than
eleven hundred and fifty dollars ($1,150) per school year; and
provided, further, that such teacher holding a first grade cer-
tificate, and serving as principal of a one or two teacher school,
shall receive at least one hundred dollars ($100) a year more
than the amount required for such teacher by the foregoing
schedule.

No white elementary school principal holding an elementary
school principal's certificate, and serving as principal of a
school having three or more teachers, including the principal,
shall receive a salary of less than eleven hundred and fifty dol-
lars ($1,150) per school year; provided, that if such principal
holds an elementary school principal's certificate of the first
class, and has taught in the public schools of the State of
Maryland for a period of three years, such principal shall re-
ceive a salary of not less than twelve hundred and fifty dol-
lars ($1,250) per school year; provided, further, that if such
principal holds an elementary school principal's certificate of
the first class, and has taught in the public schools of the
State of Maryland for a period of five years, such principal
shall receive a salary of not less than thirteen hundred dollars
($1,300) per school year; and provided, further, that if such
principal holds an elementary school principal's certificate of
the first class, and has taught in the public schools of the State
of Maryland for a period of eight years, such principal shall