ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 843
The board of county commissioners of each county shall lew

sufficient funds to meet the salaries provided for in this sec-
tion ; and the salary of no county superintendent regularly em-
ployed at the time this section (as re-enacted in 1922 ) goes into
effect shall be diminished by reason of any of its provisions,
but every county superintendent shall be entitled to any in-

crease in salary which may herein be granted at the time this
section (as re-enacted in 1922) goes into effect.

73. The county superintendent of schools, acting under the
rules and regulations of the county board of education, shall be
responsible for the administration of the office of the county
superintendent of schools. He shall nominate, for appoint-
ment by the county board of education, all the professional,
clerical, statistical and stenographic assistants of the office;
he shall recommend their removal for immorality, misconduct
in office, incompetency, insubordination, or wilful neglect of
duty, and he shall see that all regular appointees of the county
board of education devote their entire time to their duties.
But the qualifications of all appointees, their tenure and com-
pensation, except as may hereinafter be provided, shall be de-
termined by the county board of education. The office of the

county superintendent of schools shall, beginning with the
school year 1922-1923, be provided as follows with professional,
clerical, statistical and stenographic assistants; provided that
all professional, clerical, statistical and stenographic assistants
holding office at the time of the enactment of this section shall
continue to serve to the end of the terms for which they were
originally appointed, and until their successors qualify, unless
removed as herein provided; and provided, further, that they
shall be paid, beginning: with the school year 1922-1923, on the
basis of the salaries herein specified:

(1) In each county employing less than eighty (80) teachers
in the white elementary schools, there shall be appointed one
supervising; teacher or helping teacher; in each county em-
ploying eighty (80) but les? than one hundred and twenty
(120) teachers in the white elementary schools, there shall
be appointed two supervising teachers or helping teachers: in
each county employing one hundred and twenty (120) but not
more than one hundred and sixty (160) teachers in the white
elementary schools, there shall be appointed three supervising-
teachers or helping teachers; in each county employing more
than one hundred and sixty (160) teachers in the white ele-
mentary schools, there shall be appointed me supervising