1660 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 968

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary
land, That Section 142 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Public, Education", sub-title
"The County Superintendent of Schools", be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

142. The county superintendent of schools, acting under
the rules and regulations of the county board of education, shall
be responsible for the administration of the office of the county
superintendent of schools. He shall nominate, for appointment
by the county board of education, all the professional, clerical,
statistical and stenographic assistants of the office;, he shall
recommend their removal for immorality, misconduct in office,
incompetency, insubordination, or wilful neglect of duty, and
he shall see that all regular appointees of the county board of
education devote their entire time to their duties. But the
qualification of all appointees, their tenure and compensation,
except as may hereinafter be provided, shall be determined by
the county board of education. The office of the county super-
intendent of schools shall, beginning with the school year 1922-
1923, be provided as follows with the professional, clerical,
statistical and stenographic assistants, provided that all pro-
fessional, clerical, statistical and stenographic assistants hold-
ing office at the time of the enactment of this section shall
continue to serve to the end of the terms for which they were
originally appointed, and until their successors qualify, unless
removed as herein provided; and provided, further, that they
shall be paid, beginning with the school year 1922-1923, on the
basis of the salaries herein specified:

(1) In each county employing less than eighty (80) teach-
ers in the white elementary schools, there shall be appointed
one supervising teacher or helping teacher; in each county em-
ploying eighty (80) but less than one hundred and twenty (120)
teachers in the white elementary schools, there shall be appoint-
ed two supervising teachers or helping teachers; in each county
employing one hundred and twenty (120) but not more than
one hundred and sixty (160) teachers in the white elementary
schools, there shall be appointed three supervising teachers or
helping teachers; in each county employing more than one hun-
dred and sixty (160) teachers in the white elementary schools,
there shall be appointed one supervising teacher or helping
teacher for each additional fifty (50) teachers or major frac-
tion thereof in the white elementary schools; and these super-
vising teachers or helping teachers shall receive such com-
pensation as the county board of education shall direct; pro-
vided that no person shall be eligible for appointment as super-
vising teacher or helping teacher who does not hold from the
State Superintendent of Schools a certificate in supervision as