848 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 382

High school principals and teachers employed on provisional
certificates may be paid two hundred dollars ($200) per school
year less than the foregoing schedule requires, and in any
county such principals and teachers shall be paid at least two
hundred dollars ($200) per school year less than shall be paid
in such county to fully qualified high school principals and
teachers.

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 high school teacher or prin-
cipal 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 every high school teacher or principal
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.

128. Each county high school in the first group shall
receive State aid on the basis of the cost of instruction, and
in the following manner: The sum of nine hundred dollars
($900) on account of the principal, and the sum of six hun-
dred dollars ($600) on account of each of the first two assist-
ants employed for full-time academic high school work; the
sum of four hundred and fifty dollars ($450) on account of
each of the first two full-time special teachers; the sum of
four hundred and fifty dollars ($450) on account of the next
full-time assistant teacher employed for regular (academic)
high school work, and the sum of one hundred and fifty dol-
lars ($150) on account of each additional full-time high
school teacher, provided the total amount does not exceed the
sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000). For high schools in
Baltimore City the amount on account of each of the senior
high schools shall be six thousand dollars ($6,000). In this
Chapter the term "Special Teacher" shall be construed to mean
a teacher of commercial, manual, or industrial training, home
economics, agricultural branches, music, physical education,
fine or applied arts. Each county high school in the second
group shall receive State aid on the basis of the cost of instruc-
tion, and in the following manner: One-half the salary of
the principal not exceeding the sum of seven hundred dollars
($700), and the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) on
account of one assistant teacher. Each high school of the
third group shall receive State aid on the basis of the cost of
instruction, and in the following manner: One-half the salary