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tions 106(k), 159(j), and 215(c) of said Article and Code, subtitles,
respectively, "Chapter 8. Teachers' Certificates, Salaries and Pen-
sions", "Chapter 12. County Superintendent of Schools", and "Chap-
ter 20. Source and Distribution of Income" be and they are hereby
repealed; and that new Sections 288(c-2), 288(k), 289(f-3) and
289 (f-4) be and they are hereby added to Article 81 of said Code
(1957 Edition and 1963 Supplement), title "Revenue and Taxes",
subtitle "Income Tax", to follow respectively after Sections 288
(c-1), 288(j), and 289(f-2) thereof, and all to read as follows:

Article 77
33.

The State Board of Education shall transmit to the Governor,
certified to by the State Superintendent of Schools, an annual State
public school budget as determined by existing laws, including the
appropriation for the State Department of Education, the retired
teachers' pensions, [State aid to approved high schools, State aid
to approved colored industrial schools, the part payment of the
salaries of county superintendents of schools, and of one supervisor
and one attendance officer in each of the counties and the superin-
tendent, one supervisor and one attendance officer in the City of
Baltimore, the free textbook fund, materials of instruction and
school supplies, and such other appropriations for special educa-
tional purposes as may from time to time be made by the General
Assembly,] and an estimate of the amount that will remain, after
all deductions for special purposes and activities, for apportionment
to the counties and the City of Baltimore; and the annual State
budget shall include the necessary costs of transporting pupils to
public schools when such transportation is approved by the State
Superintendent of Schools. It shall also be the duty of the State
Board of Education, on and with the advice of the State Super-
intendent of Schools, to prepare, from time to time, as it may be
deemed wise, bills, and to recommend the same to the Governor and
the General Assembly, providing for changes in the appropriation
for special educational purposes and activities and in the total
amount raised and contributed by the State for the encouragement
and support of public education.

92.

[On and after July 1, 1951, whenever an elementary school num-
bers more than thirty children in average enrollment, an assistant
may be employed by the county board of education, or Board of
School Commissioners of Baltimore City; and for every additional
thirty children, one teacher shall be appointed.]

The State Board of Education from time to time shall adopt
rules and regulations fixing as it may deem necessary the ratio of
elementary school teachers to pupils enrolled, within the overall
ratios establish ESTABLISHED in Section 159.

106.

(b) Beginning with the school year [1961-1962] 1964-1965 and
continuing thereafter subject to the other provisions of this section,
every teacher, with a degree, holding a [regular bachelor of science,
academic, special, vocational, or higher] standard professional or