WHEREAS, Maren F. McDowell is employed by the Board of School Trustees at the William W. M. Henry Comprehensive High School, District 133-C, Dover, Delaware, as a school teacher; and
WHEREAS, the said Maren F. McDowell was so first employed for the school term beginning in September 1952 ; and
WHEREAS, the said Maren F. McDowell did at time of this employment hold a Master's degree; and
WHEREAS, through clerical error, the said Maren F. McDowell was paid during the school term 1952-53 only that salary prescribed in the laws of Delaware for a Bachelor's degree, a degree lower than a Master's degree; and
WHEREAS, the difference in the salaries assigned the Bachelor's and Master's degree is $200.00 for the school term of ten months ; and
WHEREAS, the said State Board of Education would have paid him the aforesaid additional salary if it had had funds available for that purpose; NOW, THEREFORE,
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware:
Section 1. The State Treasurer is directed to pay to Maren F. McDowell, within thirty (30) days, the sum of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) in payment of the additional salary to which he is entitled as a school teacher in the William W. M. Henry Comprehensive High School, District 133-C, Dover, Delaware, for the school term of 1952-53.