1166 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 619

The State of Maryland shall pay, as hereinafter provided,
out of the General State School Fund to the treasurer of
the County Board of Education two-thirds of the annual
salaries of the supervising teachers or helping teachers
required by this section. County Boards of Education may
at their discretion, pay to a county supervising or helping
teacher an annual salary in excess of the schedule provided
in this section, but the State shall not share in the part-
payment of this excess. County Boards of Education are
free to employ as many additional supervising teachers or
helping teachers as in their judgment are necessary but
the State shall not share in the payment of their salaries.
The State of Maryland shall pay, as hereinafter provided,
to the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City
two-thirds of the annual salaries as provided in this sub-
section of the number of supervising teachers employed not
in excess of the number hereinbefore provided in relation
to the number of teachers employed. ]

[(e)] (c) There shall be appointed in each county and
in Baltimore City one supervisor of pupil[s] personnel I
or one supervisor of pupil personnel II, with the provision
that no supervisors of pupil personnel II shall be appointed
after July 1, 1953, whose duty it shall be to study the
causes of and work out solutions for irregular school
attendance and pupil maladjustment so that every child
may receive the benefits of education and juvenile delin-
quency may be reduced. In each county having under
5, 000 pupils enrolled in school there shall be appointed a
supervisor of pupil personnel [I and II]; in each county
having 5, 000 and fewer than 10, 000 pupils enrolled in
school there shall be appointed a supervisor of pupil per-
sonnel [I] and a visiting teacher; and for each additional
5, 000 pupils or fraction thereof enrolled, there shall be
appointed an additional visiting teacher, provided that the
appointment of any person as a supervisor of pupil per-
sonnel I, supervisor of pupil personnel II, [and] or as a
visiting teacher shall be invalid without the written
approval of the State Superintendent of Schools, [and pro-
vided, further, that no supervisor of pupil personnel I or
II, appointed under the provisions of this section or con-
tinued in office under the provisions of this section shall
be paid an annual salary of less than Three Thousand
Three Hundred Dollars ($3, 300) per year for the fifth
year of teaching and pupil personnel service; Three Thou-
sand Four Hundred Dollars ($3, 400) per year for the sixth
year of teaching and pupil personnel service; Three Thou-
sand Five Hundred Dollars ($3, 500) per year for the
seventh year of teaching and pupil personnel service;