1052 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 502
CHAPTER 502.
(House Bill 391)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 90 and 195 of Article 77 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1935 Supplement), title
"Public Education", sub-titles "Chapter 8—Teachers' Cer-
tificates, Salaries and Pensions", and "Chapter 17—High
Schools", and to enact in lieu thereof a new section to be
known as Section 90 of said Article, establishing a minimum
salary schedule for white teachers and principals in both
elementary and high schools in the several counties of the
State based on preparation and experience, and providing
that the County Commissioners of the several counties shall
levy sufficient funds to pay the scale of salaries herein
established.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 90 and 195 of Article 77 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1935 Supplement), title "Public Educa-
tion", sub-titles "Chapter 8—Teachers' Certificates, Salaries
and Pensions" and "Chapter 17—High Schools", be and the
same are hereby repealed, and that a new section be and it is
hereby enacted in lieu thereof, said new section to be known
as Section 90 of said Article and to read as follows:

90. No white teachers or principals regularly employed in
public schools in the counties of the State of Maryland shall
receive salaries less than the amounts provided for in the
following schedule for varying amounts of training and suc-
cessful experience; provided that white teachers and principals
having eight years' or less experience prior to the effective
date of this schedule shall receive the salary in the new sched-
ule corresponding with their years of experience, and white
teachers and principals having more than eight years⁷ experi-
ence prior to the effective date of this schedule shall receive
only one salary increment for experience in any two-year
budgetary period; but no teacher or principal whose certificate
is rated by the county superintendent as second class, as pro-
vided in Section 88 of Article 77, shall receive any salary incre-
ment based on experience. No white teacher, without degree,
holding a regular first grade or higher certificate, shall receive
a salary of less than $1, 000 per school year during the first
and second years of service; $1, 050 per school year for the
third and fourth years of service; $1, 100 per school year for
the fifth and sixth years of service; $1, 150 per school year for
the seventh and eighth years of service; $1, 250 per school year
for the ninth and tenth years of service; $1, 350 per school year