814 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77

school and so certified by the State Department of Education to the
Board of County School Commissioners of the County where such
person is employed as a teacher shall receive as a salary not less than
four hundred dollars ($400) per annum; and after having taught for a
period of three years in any of the public schools of the State of Mary-
land shall receive as salary not less than four hundred and fifty dollars
($450) per annum; if such teacher has taught as above for a period
of five years, he or she shall receive as salary not less than .five hundred
dollars ($500) per annum; if such teacher has taught as above for a
period of eight years, he or she shall receive as salary not less than five
hundred and fifty dollars ($550) per annum.* provided this Section
shall apply only to teachers whose diplomas or certificates are rated as
first-class by the County Superintendent of the County in which the
teacher is employed. The County Commissioners of each County shall
levy sufficient funds to meet the increase of salaries provided for in this
Section, +

3904, art. 77, sec. 58. 1902, ch. 196, sec. 53A and see. 2. 1904, ch. 584. 1906, ch.
475 1/2. 1908. ch. 605. 1912, ch. 135. 1914. ch. 736.

62. Whenever any person in this State has taught in any of the
public or normal schools thereof twenty-five years, and has reached the
age of sixty years, and his or her record as such teacher has been with-
out reproach, and by reason of physical or mental disability or infirmity
is unable to teach longer, and who, moreover, is without the means of
comfortable support, the said teacher may lay his or her case before the
State Board of Education, supported in all cases by the recommenda-
tion of the Board of County School Commissioners of the County in
which said teacher has last taught, and the said board shall proceed
to consider the same, and if the facts are found as above stated the said
teacher shall be placed on a list, a record of which shall be kept by the
said board, to be known as the "Teachers' Retired List," and every
person so placed on said retired list shall be entitled to receive a pen-
sion from the State of two.hundred dollars per annum, to be paid quar-
terly by the Treasurer of the State Board of Education, so long as such
pensioner is without other means of comfortable support, and the State
Board of Education may in extraordinary cases waive the age limit as
herein provided; provided, however, the applicant has all the other
qualifications as provided herein. The Treasurer of the State Board
of Education shall on or before the twentieth day of the month of
September, December, March and June of each year, certify to the
Comptroller the sum of money necessary for the payment of said pen-
sions for the current quarter as provided by this Section, and the Comp-
troller shall, on or before the first day of the months of October, Janu-
ary, April and July issue his warrant-on the Treasurer of the State in
favor of the Treasurer of the State Board of Education for the amount

*The punctuation of this line is just as it appears in the act.
+ In effect August 1, 1914.