846 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 382

superinteudent; and the salary of 110 supervising teacher, help-
ing teacher, or attendance officer, regularly employed at the
time this section (as re-enacted in 1922) goes into effect, shall
be diminished by reason of any of its provisions, but they shall
be entitled to any increase in salary that may herein be granted

from the time this section (as re-enacted in 1922) goes into
effect.

74. The county board of education shall provide the office
of the county superintendent of schools with ample, conveni-
ent, and comfortable quarters, and with adequate clerical
equipment; and the county superintendent of schools and his
professional assistants shall be provided with such means of
transportation as are necessary for the effective and efficient
performance of their official duties. They shall be reimbursed
for all actual and necessary traveling and other expenses and
disbursements incurred or made by them in the performance
of their official duties, and no part of the traveling or personal
expenses of the county superintendent and his professional as-
sistants incurred in the performance of their official duties
shall be included in or counted as a part of their annual salary.

The board of county commissioners of each county shall not
deny any part of the amount requested for any one school year
by the county board of education to be raised by local taxation
in order to carry out the provisions of this section.

126B. No white high school teacher regularly employed
in the public high schools of the State of Maryland shall re-
ceive a salary of less than eleven hundred and fifty dollars
($1,150) per school year, provided that if such teacher holds
a high school teacher's certificate of the first class, and has
taught in an approved high school of the State of Maryland
for a period of one year, such teacher shall receive a salary of
not less than twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) per school year;
provided, further, if such teacher holds a high school teacher's
certificate of the first class, and has taught in an approved high
school of the State of Maryland for a period of three years,
such teacher shall receive a salary of not less than one thou-
sand two hundred and fifty dollars ($1,250) per school year;
provided, further, if such teacher holds a high school teacher's
certificate of the first class, and has taught in an approved high
school of the State of Maryland for a period of five years,
such teacher shall receive a salary of not less than one thou-
sand three hundred dollars ($1,300) per school year; and pro-