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(4) Is not at the date of making application an inmate of any prison,
jail, workhouse, infirmary, insane asylum, or any other public correctional
institution;

(5) During the period of ten years immediately preceding such date has
not been imprisoned for a felony.

(6) If a husband has not without just cause failed to support his wife
and his children under the age of sixteen years for six months or more
during the fifteen years preceding the date of application for a pension.

(7) Has not, within one year preceding such application for pension
been a habitual tramp or beggar;

(8) Has no child or other person responsible under the law of this State
for his support and able to support him.

1927, ch. 538, sec. 4.
4. No old age pension shall be granted or paid to a person:

(1) While or during the time he is an inmate of and receives the neces-
sities of life from any charitable institution maintained by the State or
any of the political subdivisions of the State, or of a private charitable,
benevolent or fraternal institution or home for the aged.

(2) If the value of his property or the value of the combined property
of husband and wife living, together exceeds three thousand dollars.

(3) Who has deprived himself, directly or indirectly, of any property
for the purpose of qualifying for old age relief.

1927, ch. 538, sec. 5.

5. The annual income of any property which is not so utilized as to
produce a reasonable income, shall be computed at five per cent, of its
value.

1927, ch. 538, sec. 6.

6. On the death of a person pensioned under this Article, or of the
survivor of a married couple, both of whom were so pensioned, the total
amount paid as pension together with simple interest at three per cent,
annually, shall be allowed and deducted from the estate of such person
or persons, by the court having jurisdiction to settle the estate. The
amount so recovered shall be paid into the treasuries of the State, county,
town, village or city in the proportion in which they respectively contrib-
uted toward the total of the pensions received by the deceased or by the
married couple of which the deceased was the survivor.

1927, ch. 538, sec. 7.

7. (1) If the judge of the Circuit Court for the County (or of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City) deems it necessary, he may require as
a condition to the grant of a pension certificate, that all or any part of the
property of an applicant for a pension be transferred to the County Com-
missioners or to the Supervisors of City Charities of Baltimore City. Such