478 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 263

tion), title "Public Education, " sub-title "Chapter 8.
Teachers Certificates and Salaries, " be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

102. (a). No teachers or principals regularly employed
in public schools in the counties and in Baltimore City [of
the State of Maryland] shall receive salaries less than the
amounts provided for in the following schedules for varying
amounts of training and successful experience; [provided
that teachers and principals having twelve years' or less
experience prior to September 1, 1947 shall receive the
salary in the new schedule corresponding with their years
of experience, and teachers and principals having more
than twelve years' experience prior to September 1, 1947
shall be placed on the new schedule corresponding with the
twelfth year of experience; each subsequent year thereafter
they shall receive one increment on the salary schedule; ]
but no teacher or principal whose certificate is rated by
the county superintendent as second class, as provided in
Section 100 shall receive any salary increment based on
experience.

[(1) No teacher, without a degree, holding a regular
first grade or higher certificate shall receive a salary of
less than $2, 000 per school year during the first year of
service; $2, 100 per school year for the second year of ser-
vice; $2, 200 per school year for the third year of service;
$2, 300 per school year for the fourth year of service;
$2, 400 per school year for the fifth year of service; $2, 500
per school year for the sixth year of service; $2, 600 per
school year for the seventh year of service; $2, 700 per
school year for the eighth year of service; $2, 800 per school
year for the ninth year of service; $2, 900 per school year
for the tenth year of service; $3, 000 per school year for
the eleventh year of service; $3, 100 per school year for
the twelfth year of service; $3, 200 per school year for the
thirteenth year of service; $3, 300 per school year for the
fourteenth year of service; $3, 400 per school year for the
fifteenth year of service; $3, 600 per school year for the
sixteenth year and each succeeding year of service there-
after. ]

(b) Beginning with the school year 1955-1956, and con-

tinuing thereafter, subject to the other provisions of this

Act, every teacher, without a degree, holding a regular

first grade certificate or higher certificate shall receive
a salary of not less than the amount specified in the follow-
ing schedule, for the year of teaching applicable to him or

her: