840 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 382

receive a salary of not less than one thousand three hundred
and fifty dollars ($1,350) per school year. And provided, fur-
ther, if an elementary school employs six full-time teachers
and has maintained an average daily attendance of two hun-

dred pupils during the preceding year, the principal of such
elementary school shall receive at least two hundred dollars
($200) more per school year than the foregoing schedule re-
quires; if an elementary school employs ten full-time teachers
and has maintained an average daily attendance of three hun-
dred and sixty pupils during the preceding year, the principal
of such elementary school shall receive at least four hundred
dollars ($400) more per school year than the foregoing sched-
ule requires. And provided, further, that all increments with
service are compulsory only for teachers and principals whose
certificates are rated as first class by the county superintendent.

Elementary school teachers employed on provisional certifi-
cates of the third grade may be paid one hundred dollars
($100) per school year less than the foregoing schedule re-
quires, and in any county such teachers shall be paid at least
one hundred dollars ($100) per school year less than shall be
paid in such county to fully qualified elementary school teach-
ers of that grade.

Elementary school teachers employed on provisional certifi-
cates of the second grade may be paid one hundred and fifty
dollars ($150) per school year less than the foregoing schedule
requires, and in any county such teachers shall be paid at least
one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) per school year less than
shall be paid in such county to fully qualified elementary school
teachers of that grade.

Elementary school teachers employed on provisional certifi-
cates of the first grade and elementary school principals em-
ployed on provisional certificates may be paid two hundred
dollars ($200) per school year less than the foregoing schedule
requires, and in any county such teachers and principals shall
be paid at least two hundred dollars ($200) per school year
less than shall be paid in such county to fully qualified ele-
mentary school teachers of that grade and to fully qualified
elementary school principals.

The board 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 or any re-enactment thereof, to and
including the re-enactment of 1922, goes into effect shall be