HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1261

system of. the State and to salaried State employees receiving
annual salaries of less than Three Thousand Dollars ($3, 000)
per year, and to certain other employees of the State Roads
Commission, the Unemployment Compensation Board, and
the offices of the Registers of Wills and Clerks of the Courts.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That every teacher (including supervisors, principals and
attendance officers) employed in the public school system of
this State, the Maryland School for the Deaf and every salaried •
State employee, receiving an annual salary of less than Three
Thousand Dollars ($3, 000) on July 1, 1943, shall receive, in
addition to his regular salary, a payment of Two Hundred
Dollars ($200) from funds appropriated for that purpose in the
budget. Regular employees of the State Roads Commission
who are paid on a daily or hourly basis and who have been
regularly employed by the State Roads Commission for the
five years immediately preceding July 1, 1943, and expressly
including State Roads Commission employees engaged in work
on the maintenance of County roads under the supervision of
the said Commission, shall be considered State employees for
the purposes of this Act. All employees of the State Roads;
Commission entitled to the payments provided by this Act
shall be paid such increases from State Roads funds as pro-
vided in the Budget, and all other employees entitled to such
payments who are paid from Speciial Funds shall also be paid
such increases fi Funds from which their
customary compe e payment in the case of
said teachers sha ten installments of Twenty
Dollars ($20) per beginning July 1, 1943, and in the
case of State emp in installments of One Hundred Dol-
lars ($100) on July, 1, 1943 and August 1, 1943, but an j
teacher employed subsequent to July 1, 1943, shall be paid such-
payments of Twenty Dollars ($20) per school month from
said funds up to May 1, 1944, provided such total payments
shall not exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200) and the total
annual salary, including such payments, to any such teacher
shall not exceed Three Thousand Dollars ($3, 000). Pro-
vided, however, that such payments shall only be paid to such
teachers and State Employees who are actually employed in
such capacities at the times such payments are due, and pro-
vided further, that if any teacher's or employee's salary, plus
the Two Hundred Dollars ($200) herein provided for, would
amount to more than Three Thousand Dollars ($3, 000), then
he shall receive only that portion of Two Hundred Dollars
($200) which, when added to his salary, gives him a total
annual compensation of Three Thousand Dollars ($3, 000).
Provided, further, that if in the period between July 1, 1942
and January 1, 1945, any County or Baltimore City shall have