ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 849

of the principal, not exceeding six hundred and fifty dollars

($650).

State aid shall not be allowed for the third assistant em-
ployed in any high school unless such high school has an
enrollment of at least sixty-five bona fide high school pupils
and an average daily attendance of at least fifty pupils; and
State aid shall not be allowed for the fourth assistant em-
ployed in any high school unless such high school has an
enrollment of at least ninety-five bona fide high school pupils,
and an average daily attendance of seventy-live pupils; and
State aid shall not be allowed for the fifth assistant employed
in any high school unless such high school has an enrollment
of one hundred and twenty-five bona fide high school pupils
and an average daily attendance of one hundred pupils; and
State aid shall not be allowed for the sixth, or any additional
teacher, unless for each of such additional teachers there are
twenty-five additional pupils in average daily attendance.
State aid on account of any high school principal or teacher
shall not exceed one-half of the salary paid to such principal
or teacher.

131. It shall be the duty of the county board of education
to establish one or more public schools in each election district
for all colored youths, between six and twenty years of age, to
which admission shall be free, and which shall be kept open
not less than one hundred and sixty (160) actual school days
or eight months in each year; provided, that the colored popu-
lation of any such district shall, in the judgment of the county
board of education, Warrant the establishment of such a school
or schools.

132A. No teacher regularly employed in the public schools
for colored children in the State of Maryland shall receive a
salary of less than forty dollars ($40) per month; provided
that if such teacher holds a third grade certificate of the first
class and has taught in the public schools for colored children
in the State of Maryland for a period of three years, such
teacher shall receive a salary of not less than forty-five dollars
($45) per month.

No teacher regularly employed in the public schools for
colored children in the State of Maryland, holding a second
grade certificate, shall receive a salary of less than fifty dollars
($50) per month; provided that if such teacher holds a
second grade certificate of the first class and has taught in the
public schools for colored children in the State of Maryland