566 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 541

the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported;
by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the
two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1945.

CHAPTER 541.
(Senate Bill 248)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-section
1 of Section 142 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1943 Supplement), title "Public Education", sub-
title "Chapter 11. County Superintendent of Schools. "

SECTION 1. Be U enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sub-section 1 of Section 142 of Article 77 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1943 Supplement), title "Public
Education", sub-title "Chapter 11. County Superintendent of
Schools", be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, so as to read as follows:

142. (1) In each county employing fewer than thirty
(30) teachers in the white elementary schools there shall be
appointed one part-time supervising or helping teacher; in
each county employing thirty (30) and fewer than eighty (80)
teachers in the white elementary schools, there shall be ap-
pointed one supervising teacher or helping teacher; in each
county employing eighty (80) but fewer than one hundred
twenty (120) teachers in the white elementary schools,
there shall be appointed two supervising teachers or helping
teachers; in each county employing one hundred twenty (120)
but not more than one hundred sixty (160) teachers in the
white elementary schools, there shall be appointed three super-
vising teachers or helping teachers; in each county employing
more than one hundred sixty (160) teachers in the white ele-
mentary schools, there shall be appointed one supervising
teacher or helping teacher for each additional fifty (50) teach-
ers or major fraction thereof in the white elementary schools;
and these supervising teachers or helping teachers shall receive
such compensation as the county board of education shall
direct; provided that no person shall be eligible for appoint-
ment as supervising teacher or helping teacher who does not
hold from the State Superintendent of Schools a certificate in
supervision as provided for in Section 88 of this Article; nor