ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 851

receive a salary of less than eighty dollars ($80) per month;
provided that if such teacher holds a high school teacher's
certificate of the first class and has taught in an approved high
school for colored children in the State of Maryland for a

period of three years, such teacher shall receive a salary of
not less than ninety dollars ($90) per month; provided, fur-
ther, if such teacher holds a high school teacher's certificate of
the first class and has taught in an approved high school for
colored children in the State of Maryland for a period of six
years, such teacher shall receive a salary of not less than
ninety-five dollars ($95) per month.

No principal regularly employed in an approved high school
for colored children in the State of Maryland shall receive a
salary of less than ninety-five dollars ($95) per month; pro-
vided that if such principal holds a high school principal's
certificate of the first class and has served as principal of an
approved high school for colored children in the State of Mary-
land for a period of three years, such principal shall receive
a salary of not less than one hundred and ten dollars ($110)
per month; provided, further, if such principal holds a high
school principal's certificate of the first class and has served as
principal of an approved high school for colored children in
the State of Maryland for a period of six years, such principal
shall receive a salary of not less than one hundred and twenty

dollars ($120) per month; and provided, further, if an ap-
proved high school for colored children employs six full-time
high school teachers and has maintained an average daily at-
tendance of one hundred pupils during the preceding year, the
principal of such school shall receive ten dollars ($10) per
month more than the foregoing schedule requires.

Principals and teachers in all high schools for colored chil-
dren, employed on provisional certificates, may be paid ten
dollars ($10) per month less than the foregoing schedule re-
quires, and in any county such principals and teachers shall
be paid at least ten dollars ($10) per month less than shall
be paid in such county to fully qualified principals and teach-
ers in high schols for colored children.

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 principal or teacher
regularly employed in the approved high schools for colored
children at the time this section (as re-enacted in 1922) goes
into effect shall be diminished by reason of any of its provi-
sions, but every such high school principal or teacher shall be