654 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 463]
- CHAPTER 463.
AN ACT concerning the retirement from regular duty of public
school teachers in Allegany county and providing salaries for
teachers retired; providing for a fund out of which said
salaries be paid; and creating the Board of Trustees of the
Teachers' Retirement Fund of Allegany county for the man-
agement and distribution of such fund.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That there shall be a board to be known as the Board of
Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement Fund of Allegany County,
to be composed of five persons, who shall serve without com-
pensation for their duties as members of said board. The said
Board of Trustees shall be composed of the County Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, and the President of the Board
of School Commissioners, and three members of the teaching
force of Allegany county who shall be elected in the following
manner: On the third Monday in November in each year, begin-
ning in the year 1912, the members of the teaching force of
Allegany county shall deposit with the said Board of Trustees
a sealed containing the names of three teachers, at least one
of whom shall be a male principal, representing his or her choice
for membership of the said Board of Trustees. The Board of
Trustees shall examine said ballots and give to each teacher
receiving a vote credit therefor, and the three teachers receiv-
ing the highest number of votes under the said ballots shall
become members of the said Board of Trustees on the fifteenth
day of January next following the date of their election. The
Board of Trustees shall publicly announce the result of said
election not later than the fifteenth day of December next fol-
lowing the date said ballots were deposited. Provided, how-
ever, that on the third Monday of May, 1912, three members
of the teaching force of Allegany county shall be elected in the
manner provided, except the said ballots shall be deposited
with the Board of School Commissioners, which board shall
examine said1 ballots and give to each teacher receiving a vote
credit therefor, and the three teachers receiving the highest
number of votes under said ballots shall be members of said
Board of Trustees until the members elected in November, in
the year 1912, shall become members of said Board of Trustees.
The Board of School Commissioners shall publicly announce the
result of said election not later than June 15, 1912. As soon
as practicable after the passage of this act the president of the
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