170 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 121

from an approved high school without the approval of the
State Superintendent of Schools. Regulations regarding the
size and arrangement of the building, and its fitness for high
school work, the amount and character of equipment ana
supplies, and the necessary library and laboratories, shall be
made by the State Board of Education; and State aid shall
not be allowed on account of the employment of any teacher
unless the department to which such teacher is assigned is
adequately equipped and the quality of instruction is satis-
factory.

No person shall be employed in any approved high school as
principal or assistant teacher who does not hold the appro-
priate certificate as provided for in Chapter 8, Section 83, of
this Article.

Nothing in this section shall prevent the organization of
junior high schools comprising the higher elementary grades
and one or two of the high school grades; and such. schools when
organized according to regulations of the State Board of Edu-
cation, and satisfactorily administered, may receive State aid on
the basis of the amount of high school instruction given.

195. No white high school teacher regularly employed in the
public high schools of the State of Maryland shall receive a salary
of less than eleven hundred and fifty dollars ($1, 150) per school
year, provided that if such teacher holds a high school teacher's
certificate of the first class, and has taught in an approved high
school of the State of Maryland for a period of one year, such
teacher shall receive a salary of not less than twelve hundred
dollars ($1, 200) per school year; provided, further, if such
teacher holds a high school teacher's certificate of the first class,
and has taught in an approved high school of the State of Mary-
land for a period of three years, such teacher shall receive a
salary of not less than one thousand two hundred and fifty
dollars ($1, 250) per school year; provided, further, if such
teacher holds a high school teacher's certificate of the first class,
and has taught in an approved high school of the State of Mary-
land for a period of five years, such teacher shall receive a salary
of not less than one thousand three hundred dollars ($1, 300)
per school year; and provided, further, if such teacher holds
a high school teacher's certificate of the first class and has
taught in an approved high school of the State of Maryland
for a period of seven years, such teacher shall receive a salary
of not less than one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars
($1, 350) per school year.

No white principal of a first group high school shall receive a
salary of less than one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars
($1, 550) per school year; provided, that if such principal holds