THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1163

tively, that during the particular year it will pay the
supervising teacher, supervisor of pupil personnel, or visit-
ing teacher therein according to a salary schedule which
is not less in any particular than that paid by the political
sub-division as of December 1, 1952. If the Board of.
Education of any County or the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore during the school years 1953-54 and 1954-55
shall pay its supervising teachers, supervisors of pupil
personnel, or visiting teachers according to a salary sched-
ule which is less in any particular than that paid as of
December 1, 1952, after having received from the State
Treasury in either year any such excess funds under the
provisions of this Act, the amount so paid shall be de-
ducted and withheld from the next subsequent payment or
payments of such excess of funds to the Board of Educa-
tion of any County or the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore under the provisions of this Act, until the
amount paid is equaled by the amount deducted and with-
held. The amount deducted and withheld shall be returned
to the general funds of the State.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That during the
school years 1953-54 and 1954-55, being respectively in the
State fiscal years ending on June 30, 1954, and June 30,
1955, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951
Edition, as amended), if the Board of Education of any
County or the Mayor and City Council of the City of Balti-
more shall be required by reason of the provisions of
Section 1 or Section 2 of this Act to pay its supervising
teachers, supervisors of pupil personnel, and visiting
teachers according to a salary scale which is greater in
any particular than the salary scale paid as of December
1, 1952, the State shall pay out of the General School Fund
to the Board of Education of any County or the City of
Baltimore an amount of money equal to two-thirds of the
net aggregate of such payments in excess of the salary
scale in effect at December 1, 1952, in any such county or
the City of Baltimore.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That sub-sections
(b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (1),
(m), and (n) of Section 153 of Article 77 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Public Edu-
cation", sub-title "Chapter 11. County Superintendent of
Schools", be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows: