1004 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 477

dollars ($100) per school year less than the foregoing
schedule requires, and in any county such teachers shall
be paid at least one hundred dollars ($100) per school
year less than shall be paid in such county to fully quali-
fied elementary school teachers of that grade.

Elementary school teachers employed on provisional cer-
tificates of the second grade may be paid one hundred and
fifty dollars ($150) per school year less than the fore-
going schedule requires, and in any county such teachers
shall be paid at least one hundred and fifty dollars ($150)
per school year less than shall be paid in such county to
fully qualified elementary school teachers of that grade.

Elementary school teachers employed on provisional
certificates of the first grade and elementary school prin-
cipals employed on provisional certificates may be paid two
hundred dollars ($200) per school year less than the fore-
going schedule requires, and in any county such teachers
and principals shall be paid at least two hundred dollars
($200) per school year less than shall be paid in such
county to fully qualified elementary school teachers of that
grade and to fully qualified elementary school principals.

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 teacher regularly
employed at the time this section or any re-enactment
thereof, to and including the re-enactment of 1922, goes
into effect shall be diminished by reason of any of the pro-
visions of said section or such reenactment, but every
teacher or school principal shall be entitled to any increase
in salary that may herein be granted, from the time said
section or any such reenactment goes into effect.

All salaries as hereinbefore set forth in this section shall
be reduced for the fiscal year beginning September 1, 1935,
and ending August 31, 1936, and for the fiscal year begin-
ning September 1, 1936, and ending August 31, 1937, and
in accordance with the following annual scale of reductions,
any and all other provisions of this section notwith-
standing:

Salaries under $1, 200 shall be reduced by 10%
Salaries from $1, 200 to $1, 799 shall be reduced by 11%
All provisions of this section creating any salary increase
because of length of teaching experience due to employ-
ment during one or more years between September 1, 1932,
and August 31, 1936, are suspended and non-operative for
the fiscal year beginning September 1, 1935, and ending
August 31, 1936, and for the fiscal year beginning Septem-