10                                LAWS OF MARYLAND                          [CH. 1

budget, for each classroom unit in operation in such county or city,
respectively, computed on a full-time teacher basis.

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The financial assistance herein authorized shall not be available or
given to any county or to Baltimore City wherein any teacher re-
ceives a salary lower than that established by Section 102 of this
Article.

(b) The State Superintendent of Schools shall certify to the Comp-
troller on or before the last day of July, [and] September [, the tenth
day of December,] and November, the last day of January, March
and May, one-sixth of the annual sum due the county board of educa-
tion of each county and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
hereunder, and thereupon the Comptroller shall within five days of
the above said dates draw his warrant on the Treasurer of the State
of Maryland for the respective amounts due to the said boards of
education and to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and the
Treasurer of the State of Maryland, upon receipt of said warrants
shall immediately pay the amount due on said dates to said respective
boards of education and to the city of Baltimore.

(C) PROVIDED FURTHER THAT NO COUNTY OR THE CITY
OF BALTIMORE MAY DECREASE THE AMOUNT AP-
PROPRIATED FROM LOCAL FUNDS FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR
1956-57 FOR TEACHERS' SALARIES IN EXCESS OF THE
STATE MINIMUM SCHEDULE. SUCH LOCAL FUNDS AS
REFERRED TO ABOVE SHALL BE USED TO PROVIDE IN-
CREASED TEACHERS' SALARIES ABOVE THE NEW STATE
MINIMUM SCHEDULE AS PROVIDED BY THIS ACT AND
ACCORDING TO A LOCAL SALARY SCHEDULE TO BE ES-
TABLISHED BY THE COUNTY BOARDS OF EDUCATION OR
THE BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS OF BALTIMORE
CITY.

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