HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 651
CHAPTER 599.
(House Bill 630)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
620A of Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws (1930
Edition), title "Allegany County", sub-title "Teachers
Salaries", as enacted by Chapter 344 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of 1939, establishing and in-.

t creasing the minimum salary schedule for teachers in both
elementary and high schools and for principals in elementary
schools in Allegany County, based on preparation and ex-
perience, and providing that the County Commissioners of
Allegany County 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 Section 620A of Article 1 of the Code of Public
Local Laws (1930 Edition), title "Allegany County", sub-title
"Teachers; Salaries", as the same was enacted by Chapter 344
of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1939, be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, so as to read as follows:

620A. No teacher regularly employed in either the ele-
mentary or the high schools of Allegany County, and no prin-
cipal regularly employed in the elementary schools of said
County shall receive salaries less than the amount provided
for in the following schedule for varying amounts of training
and successful experience, provided that such teachers and
principals having thirteen years, or. less experience prior to
the effective date of this schedule shall receive the salaries in
the new schedule corresponding with their actual years of ex-
perience, and such teachers and principals having more than
thirteen years, experience prior to the effective date of this
schedule shall for the school year 1945-1946 receive the salaries
as hereinafter provided in that schedule applicable to said
teacher or principal for the fourteenth year of the schedule and
thereafter the successive amounts as provided for in said
schedule; but no such teacher or principal whose certificate is
rated by the County Superintendent of Schools of Allegany
County as second class, as provided in Section 88 of Article 77
of the Annotated Code of Maryland, shall receive any salary
increment based on experience. No teacher, without degree,
holding a regular first class or higher certificate shall receive
a salary of less than $1, 300. 00 per school year for the first year
of service; $1, 300. 00 per school year for the second year of
service; $1, 400. 00 per school year for the third year of service;
$1, 450. 00 per school year for the fourth year of service;