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diminished by reason of any of the provisions of said section
or such re-enactment, but every teacher or school principal
shall be entitled to any increase in salary that may herein be
granted, from the time said section or any such re-enactment
goes into effect.

72. The county board of education of each county shall
appoint during the month of May a superintendent of schools
for a term of four years, from the first day of August next
succeeding his appointment, and he shall hold office until his
successor qualifies. No person shall be eligible for appoint-
ment to the office of county superintendent of schools who does
not hold from the State Superintendent of Schools a certificate
in administration and supervision as provided for in Section
55 of this Article, nor shall the appointment of any person by
the county board of education to the position of county super-
intendent of schols be valid without the written approval of
the State Superintendent of Schools. Provided that all county
superintendents of schools holding office at the time when this
Act shall take effect, shall continue to serve to the end of the
term for which they were originally appointed, and until their
successors qualify, unless removed, as hereinafter provided,
and shall also be eligible for reappointment; and provided,
further, that all county superintendents of schools shall be paid,
beginning with the school year 1922-1923, on the basis of the
salaries hereinafter specified. The salary of the county super-
intendent of schools shall not be diminished during his term
of office. The county superintendent of schools shall devote
his entire time to public school business and shall receive such
compensation as the county board of education shall direct,
provided that no county superintendent of schools appointed
to office under the provisions of this section, or continuing in
office under the provisions of this section, shall be paid an
annual salary of less than two thousand five hundred dollars
($2,500), and if the county has less than one hundred and fifty
teachers in all the schools, the county superintendent of such
county may be paid, in the discretion of the county board of
education, an annual salary up to and including; two thousand
nine hundred and forty dollars ($2,940) ; and in any county
Laving one hundred and fifty teachers but less than two hundred
teachers in all the schools, the county superintendent of such
county shall in no case be paid an annual salary of less than
two thousand nine hundred and forty dollars ($2,940) ; and if
the county superintendent of such county has acted as county
superintendent in the State of Maryland for a period of four