844 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 382

teacher or helping teacher for each additional fifty (50)
teachers or major fraction thereof in the white elementary
schools; and these supervising teachers or helping teachers
shall receive such compensation as the county board of educa-
tion shall direct; provided that no person shall be eligible for
appointment as supervising teacher or helping teacher who
does not hold from the State Superintendent of Schools a cer-
tificate in supervision as provided for in Section 55 of this
Article; nor shall the appointment of any person by a county
board of education as supervising teacher or helping teacher
be valid without the written approval of the State Superin-
tendent of Schools. And provided, further, that no supervis-
ing teacher, appointed under the provisions of this section or
continued in office under the provisions of this section, shall
be paid an annual salary of less than two thousand and forty

dollars ($2,040), and if he or she has acted as supervising
teacher in the State of Maryland for a period of four years,
he or she shall be paid an annual salary of not less than two
thousand three hundred and forty dollars ($2,340) ; and if he
or she has acted as supervising teacher in the State of Mary-
land for a period of seven years, he or she shall be paid an
annual salary of not less than two thousand six hundred and
forty dollars ($2,640). With the approval of the State Super-
intendent of Schols, county boards of education may employ
helping teachers under the conditions for supervising teachers

prescribed in this section at an annual salary of six hundred
dollars ($600) less than that paid to supervising teachers. The
State of Maryland shall pay, as hereinafter provided, out of
the General State School Fund to the treasurer of the county
board of education two-thirds of the annual salaries of the su-
pervising teachers or helping teachers required by this section.
County boards of education are free to employ as many addi-
tional supervising teachers or helping teachers as in their judg-
ment are necessary, but the State shall not share in the pay-
ment of their salaries. The State of Maryland shall pay, as
hereinafter provided, to the Board of School Commissioners
of Baltimore City two-thirds of the annual salaries of not more
than ten supervising teachers.

(2) There shall be appointed in each county at least one
attendance officer, whose duty it shall be to compel the regular
attendance of children at school. Such person shall receive
such compensation as the county board of education shall di-
rect ; provided that the appointment of any person as an attend-