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a high school principal's certificate of the first class and has
served as principal of an approved high school of the first
group in the State of Maryland for a period of one year, such
principal shall receive a salary of at least one thousand six
hundred and fifty dollars ($1, 650) per school year; provided,
such principal holding such certificate has served as principal
of an approved high school of the first group in the State of
Maryland for a period of three years, such principal shall
receive a salary of at least one thousand seven hundred and
fifty dollars ($1, 750) per school year; provided, if such prin-
cipal holding such certificate has served as principal of an
approved high school of the first group in the State of Mary-
land for a period of five years, such principal shall receive a
salary of at least one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars
($1, 850) per school year; provided, that if such principal hold-
ing such certificate has served as principal of an approved high
school of the first group in the State of Maryland for a period
of seven years, such principal shall receive a salary of at least
one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars ($1, 950) per school
year. And provided, further, if a high school of the first group
employs six full-time high school teachers and has maintained
an average daily attendance of one hundred pupils during the
preceding year, the principal of such high school shall receive
at least two hundred dollars ($200) more per school year than
the foregoing schedule requires; if a high school of the first
group employs ten full-time high school teachers and has main-
tained an average daily attendance of two hundred pupils
during the preceding year, the principal of such high school
shall receive at least four hundred dollars ($400) more per
school year than the foregoing schedule requires.

The principal of a high school of the second group
shall be paid at least one hundred dollars ($100) more per
school year than the minimum required for a regular high
school teacher.

High school principals and teachers employed on provisional
certificates may be paid two hundred dollars ($200) per school
year less than the foregoing schedule requires, and in any
county such principals and teachers shall be paid at least two
hundred dollars ($200) per school year less than shall be paid
in such county to fully qualified high school principals and
teachers.

The board of county commissioners of each county shall lew
sufficient funds to meet the scale of salaries provided for in this
section; and the salary of no high school teacher or principal
regularly employed at the time this section (as re-enacted in
1927) goes into effect shall be diminished by reason of
any of its provisions, but every high school teacher or prin-