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to any increase in salary that may herein be granted, from the time said
section or any such re-enactment goes into effect.

Sec. 122 1/2E of act of 1908, ch. 635, held not to be invalid under art. 3, sec. 29, of
the state Constitution. The duty of county commissioners to levy taxes under said
section is enforceable by county school commissioners by mandamus, and the right
to the writ is not defeated by appeal from county commissioners provided by art. 5,
sec. 90. Worcester County v. School Commissioners, 113 Md. 307; Ruehl v. State,
130 Md. 196.

1924, ch. 233.

91. It shall be unlawful for the State Superintendent of Schools or
any of his assistants, and for the Board of School Commissioners of Balti-
more City, or for any superintendent or assistant employed by said Com-
missioners, and for any superintendent or commissioner of public educa-
tion in any of the counties or municipal corporations of the State of Mary-
land, and for any assistants employed by them or either of them, to make
any distinction or discrimination in favor of or against any teacher who
may be employed in any of the public schools of this State, or of the City
of Baltimore, or of the various counties or municipal corporations of this
State, on account of sex, it being the intent and purpose of this Act that
the provisions thereof shall apply with reference to the appointment, as-
signment, compensation, promotion, transfer, dismissal and all other mat-
ters pertaining to the employment of teachers in the public schools of the
State of Maryland, the City of Baltimore and the various counties and
municipal corporations of the State of Maryland.

An. Code, sec. 62. 1904, sec. 58. 1902, ch. 196, sec. 53A and sec. 2. 1904, ch. 584.

1906, ch. 4754. 1908, ch. 605. 1912, ch. 135. 1914, ch. 736.

1916, ch. 506, sec. 62. 1920, ch. 447.

92. 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 without re-
proach, 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, such person may lay his or her case before the State Superinten-
dent of Schools, supported by the recommendation of the County Board
of Education of the county in which such person has last taught, and the
State Superintendent of Schools shall proceed to consider the same, and
if the facts are found as above stated such person shall be placed on a list
to be known as the "Teachers' Retired List," and every person so placed
on this list shall be entitled to receive a pension from the State of four
hundred dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly by the Treasurer of the
State Board of Education, so long as such pensioner is without other
means of comfortable support, and the State Superintendent of Schools
may in extraordinary cases waive the age limit as herein designated; pro-
vided, however, the applicant has all the other qualifications as herein speci-
fied. The Treasurer of the State Board of Education shall, on or before
the last day of September, December, March and June of each year, certify
to the Comptroller the sum of money necessary for the payment of said