172 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 121

cipal shall be entitled to any increase in salary that may herein
be granted, from the time this section (as re-enacted in 1927)
goes into effect.

197. Each county high school in the first group shall receive
State aid on the basis of the cost of instruction and in the
following manner: The sum of nine hundred dollars ($900) on
account of the principal, and the sum of six hundred dollars
($600) on account of each of the first two assistants employed
for full-time academic high school work; the sum of four hun-
dred and fifty dollars ($450) on account of each of the first
two full-time special teachers; the sum of four hundred and fifty
dollars ($450) on account of the next full-time assistant teacher
employed for regular (academic) high school work, and the
sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) on account of each
additional full-time high school teacher, provided the total
amount does not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars
($5, 000). For high schools in Baltimore City the amount on
account of each of the senior high schools shall be six thousand
dollars ($6, 000). In this Chapter the term ''Special Teacher"
shall be construed to mean a teacher of commercial, manual, or
industrial training, home economics, agricultural branches,
music, physical education, fine or applied arts. Each high
school of the second group shall receive State aid on
the basis of the cost of instruction, and in the following manner:
One-half the salary of the principal, not exceeding six hundred
and fifty dollars ($650).

State aid shall not be allowed for the second academic
assistant employed in any first group high school unless such
high school has an enrollment of at least fifty-five
bona fide high school pupils and an average daily attendance
of at least forty-eight pupils; and State aid shall not
be allowed for the third academic assistant employed
in any first group high school unless such high school has an
enrollment of at least ninety bona fide high school
pupils, and an average daily attendance of at least
eighty high school pupils; and State aid shall not be
allowed for the fourth academic assistant employed in
any first group school unless such high school has an enrollment
of at least one hundred and twenty-five bona fide high school
pupils and an average daily attendance of at least one hun-
dred and ten pupils; and State aid shall not be allowed for
the fifth, or any additional academic assistant, unless for each of
such additional assistants there are thirty-five additional pupils
enrolled. State aid shall be allowed for part-time special teachers
employed in any approved first group high school under rules
and regulations prescribed by the State Board of Education,
State aid on account of any high school principal or teacher