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PUBLIC LAW 193—OCT. 24, 1951

"SEC. 9. (a) Every teacher, librarian, research assistant, and instructor in the teachers colleges in the service of the Board of Education on June 30, 1947, shall be transferred and assigned either to group A or to group C in salary classes 1 to 8, inclusive, in accordance with the provisions of section 6 of this Act. Every teacher, librarian, research assistant, counselor, and instructor in the teachers colleges appointed on or after July 1, 1947, shall be assigned according to eligibility either to group A or to group C if the salary class to which he is appointed be divided into group A and group C. Every teacher, librarian, research assistant, and counselor transferred and assigned on July 1, 1947, to a group A, or appointed to group A on July 1, 1947, or thereafter shall be promoted to group C on the basis of documentary evidence establishing the attainment of a recognized master's degree: Provided, That after June 30, 1948, all promotions to group C shall be made on the first day of the month immediately following the date on which documentary evidence is submitted to the Board of Education establishing to the Board's satisfaction the attainment of a recognized master's degree. " (b) Notwithstanding any provision of this Act to the contrary, the Board of Education is authorized to promote school librarians in the service of the Board of Education on permanent tenure on July 1, 1950, to class 4, group C, without requiring such librarians to have a master's degree and to appoint or promote vocational high school shop teachers to class 5, group C, without requiring such teachers to have a master's degree." SEC. 8. Section 13 of such Act, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 13. There shall be appointed by the Board of Education, on the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, a chief examiner for the board of examiners for white schools and a chief examiner for the board of examiners for colored schools. All members of the respective boards of examiners shall serve without additional compensation." SEC. 9. Appropriations to carry out, after June 30, 1951, the purposes of sections 2, 4, and 5 of this Act, and so much of section 7 of this Act as relates to subsection (a) of section 9 of the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947, as amended, are authorized. The appropriations for general administration, general supervision and instruction, and vocational education, George-Barden program, under the caption "Public Schools" contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act of 1950, approved June 29, 1949, and in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act of 1951, approved July 18, 1950, are hereby made available for carrying out the purposes of such sections of this Act for periods prior to July 1, 1951. SEC. 10. Sections 2, 4, and 5 of this Act, and so much of section 7 of this Act as relates to subsection (a) of section 9 of the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947, as amended, shall take effect July 1, 1947. Approved October 24, 1951.

Public Law 193

Teachers colleges.

S c h o o l librariaas; vocational high schijol shop teachers. Promotions.

Appointment chief examiners.

Appropriations authorized.

Availability of prior appropriations.

63 Stat. 305. 64 Stat. 350.

Effective date of designated sections.

CHAPTER 542

AN ACT To authorize the improvement of East Pass Channel from the Gulf of Mexico into Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary

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October 24, 1951 {H. R. 2322]

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