850 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 382

for a period of three years, such teacher shall receive a salary
of not less than fifty-five dollars ($55) per month; provided,
further, if such teacher holds a second grade certificate of the
first class and has taught in the public schools for colored chil-
dren in the State of Maryland for a period of five years, such
teacher shall receive a salary of not less than sixty dollars
($60) per month.

No teacher regularly employed in the public schools for
colored children in the State of Maryland, holding a first
grade certificate, shall receive a salary of less than sixty-five
dollars ($65) per month; provided, if such teacher holds a
first 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 seventy dollars ($70) per month; provided,
further, if such teacher holds a first 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 five years,
such teacher shall receive a salary of not less than seventy-
five dollars ($75) per month; and provided, further, if such
teacher holds a first 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 eight years, such teacher shall
receive a salary of not less than eighty-five dollars ($85) per
month.

All elementary school teachers and principals in colored
schools employed on provisional certificates may be paid five
dollars ($5) per month less than the foregoing schedule re-
quires, and in any county such teachers and principals shall
be paid at least five dollars ($5) per month less than shall be
paid in such counties to fully qualified elementary school
teachers and principals in colored schools.

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 elementary school teacher or prin-
cipal regularly employed in the colored schools at the time this
section (as re-enacted in 1922) goes into effect shall be dimin-
ished by reason of any of its provisions, but every such teacher
and 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.

132B. No teacher regularly employed in an approved high
school for colored children in the State of Maryland shall