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"merit" increases and also for supplemental increases for the extra
services, for teachers selected on the basis of comparative excellence.

106.

(f) Teachers with second and third grade certificates. For the
school year [1957-58] 1961-1962 and thereafter, the salary of a
teacher holding a regular second grade certificate shall be [$2,300.00]
$2,700.00; and the salary of a teacher holding a regular third grade
certificate shall be [$2,100.00] $2,500.00.

215. General State school fund; equalization fund.

(c) Local tax prerequisite to sharing in equalization fund. The
board of county commissioners of each of the several counties and
the mayor and city council of Baltimore to be eligible to share in
the equalization fund shall levy an annual tax for the schools of not
less than [sixty-five cents (65¢) on each one hundred dollars ($100)
of assessable property, exclusive of the amount levied for debt serv-
ice and capital outlay for the schools, provided, however, that begin-
ning as of July 1, 1955 and continuing thereafter, the board of
county commissioners of each of the several counties and the mayor
and city council of Baltimore City, to be eligible to share in the
equalization fund, shall levy an annual tax for the schools of not
less than 75¢] eighty-seven cents (87¢) on each $100 of assessable
property, exclusive of the amount levied for debt service and capital
outlay for the schools.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That Section 222 (5) of said
Article 77 (1957 Edition), sub-title "Chapter 20. Source and Dis-
tribution of Income", be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments; and a new Section 222A be and the same
is hereby added to said Article 77 (1957 Edition), to follow imme-
diately after Section 222 thereof and to be under the sub-title
"Chapter 20. Source and Distribution of Income", and also to read
as follows:

222. Incentive Fund.

(5) Additional payment in event of minimum levy of five cents;
maximum participation by State. If the county commissioners of
each county and the mayor and city council of Baltimore have levied
a minimum of five cents on each one hundred dollars of their taxable
basis for the purpose of financing the construction of public school
buildings and public school facilities and have otherwise complied
with the requirements of this section, including the requirement in
sub-section (3) hereof, there shall be paid from the State general
fund to each such county and to the City of Baltimore an additional
amount of [ten] twelve dollars multiplied by the number of pupils
enrolled respectively in each such county or the City of Baltimore.
The maximum participation by the State in the incentive fund
created and established by this section shall be limited to an amount
necessary to provide [twenty dollars ($20.00)] twenty-two dollars
($22.00) multiplied by the number of pupils enrolled in the City of
Baltimore or in the said counties each year, as the case may be.
Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be taken to
limit in general the total levy which the City of Baltimore and each
county may make for the purpose of building, improving, or main-
taining any school buildings or facilities situated in said city and
in said counties, it being the intention of this section to limit the