1664 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 968

tenance of the same and annually report to the county board
of education and the county commissioners and explain what-
ever items in the budget as may be required of him so that
the county board of education and the county commissioners
may be fully advised of the nature of each item of the budget as
submitted by the board of education. Said supervisor of school
property shall have such jurisdiction over all things herein
mentioned that the board of education or the treasurer thereof
shall not approve or pay any bill for anything in relation
thereto unless said account, bill or statement shall have en-
dorsed thereon the approval for payment of said supervisor of
school property. Any employee appointed by the Supervisor of
School property may be removed for cause by the County Board
of Education after public hearing before the County Board of
Education held with reasonable notice to the employee in
question. The County Commissioners for Montgomery County
are hereby empowered, authorized and directed to levy for and
pay the salary, traveling and proper expenses of the said
supervisor of school property and his assistant, and to provide
pay and levy for all the employees under his supervision. When
the County Commissioners shall have levied a definite amount
for the functions assigned in this section to the primary juris-
diction of the Supervisor of School Property, such amounts
cannot be diverted to other activities of the County Board of
Education without a concurrent resolution of the Board of
County Commissioners approving such transfer of funds.

(4) And such other clerical, statistical and stenographic
assistants and other professional assistants, assistant superin-
tendents, supervising teachers, helping teachers, attendance of-
ficers, medical inspectors and school nurses as the county board
of education shall authorize; provided that 110 professional as-
sistant shall be appointed who does not hold the appropriate
certificate issued by the State Superintendent of Schools, and
the appointment of no professional assistant shall be valid with-
out the written approval of the State Superintendent of
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 shall not deny any part of the amount re-
quested for any one school year by the county board of educa-
tion to be raised by local taxation for the payment of the sal-
aries of the professional and clerical assistants of the county
superintendent; and the salary of no supervising teacher, help-
ing teacher, or attendance officer, regularly employed at the
time this section (as re-enacted in 1922) goes into effect, shall
be diminished by reason of any of its provisions, but they shall
be entitled to any increase in salary that may herein be grant-