1014 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 477

ceive a salary of not less than sixty dollars ($60) per
month.

No teacher regularly employed in the public schools for
colored children in the State of Maryland, holding a first
grade certificate, shall receive a salary of less than sixty-
five dollars ($65) per month; provided, if such teacher
holds a first grade certificate of the first class and has
taught in the public schools for colored children in the State
of Maryland for a period of three years, such teacher shall
receive a salary of not less than seventy dollars ($70) per
month; provided, further, if such teacher hold a first grade
certificate of the first class and has taught in the public
schools for colored children in the State of Maryland for
a period of five years, such teacher shall receive a salary
of not less than seventy-five dollars ($75) per month; and
provided, further, if such teacher holds a first grade cer-
tificate of the first class and has taught in the public
schools for colored children in the State of Maryland for
a period of eight years, such teacher shall receive a salary
of not less than eighty-five dollars ($85) per month.

All elementary school teachers and principals in colored
schools employed on provisional certificates may be paid
five dollars ($5) per month less than the foregoing sched-
ule requires, and in any county such teachers and principals
shall be paid at least five dollars ($5) per month less than
shall be paid in such counties to fully qualified elementary
school teachers and principals in colored schools.

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 elementary school
teacher or principal regularly employed in the colored
schools at the time this section (as re-enacted in 1922) goes
into effect shall be diminished by reason of any of its provi-
sions, but every teacher and principal shall be entitled to
any increase in salary that may herein be granted from the
time this section (as re-enacted in 1922) 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, in
accordance with the following annual salary scale of reduc-
tions, any and all other provisions of this section to the con-
trary notwithstanding:

Salaries under $1, 200 shall be reduced by 10%.

All provisions of this section creating any salary increase
because of length of teaching experience due to employment
during one or more years between September 1, 1932, and