852 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 382

entitled to any increase in salary that may herein be granted,
from the time this section (as re-enacted in 1922) goes into
effect.

High schools for colored children shall be kept open not less
than one hundred and sixty (160) actual schools days in
each year; and such high schools shall be entitled to State aid
when approved by the State Board of Education as provided
for other high schools.

133. All money appropriaetd, subsequent to the enactment
of this section, by the General Assembly of the State of Mary-
land and the receipts from any State public school tax levied
by the General Assembly, to aid in support of public schools,
shall constitute what shall be known as the General State
School Fund. The Comptroller shall charge against and pay
as hereinbefore or hereinafter provided from the General State
School Fund, the annual appropriation made by the General
Assembly for the support of the State Department of Educa-
tion, including the expenses of the State Board of Education,
and the support and expenses of the office of the State Super-
intendent of Schools; the annual appropriation for the main-
tenance and support of the state normal school at Towson, of
the state normal school No. 2 at Frostburg, and of the state
normal school No. 3 at Bowie, the annual appropriation for
retired teachers' pensions; the annual appropriation for state
aid to approved high schols; the anunal appropriation for
state aid to approved colored industrial schools; the annual
appropriation for part payment by the State of the salaries
of county superintendents and of the Superintendent of Schools
of Baltimore City, and of supervising teachers or helping
teachers, in each of the several counties and the City of Balti-
more ; the annual appropriation for payment by the State
of the entire salary of one attendance officer in each of the
several counties and the City of Baltimore; the annual ap-
propriation for the purchase of textbooks, materials of instruc-
tion and school supplies; such special appropriations to be
known as an Equalization Fund, as may, from time to time,
be made by Budget Bill or Supplementary Appropriation
Bill, to the county boards of education of certain counties to

enable them to pay the minimum salaries prescribed in this
Article for county superintendents, supervising teachers and
helping teachers, high school and elementary school teachers,
and teachers in colored schools; provided, that the board of
county commissioners of each of the several counties sharing
in the Equalization Fund shall levy and collect an annual tax