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nesses, for their attendance and mileage, shall receive the same fees as are
now or may hereafter be provided in cases in Courts of Record.

Whoever shall wilfully fail or refuse to obey a summons, subpoena or
other process issued by said Board and duly served, or whoever shall
wilfully refuse to testify or wilfully ignore or disobey any order of said
Retirement Board shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars and not
exceeding one hundred dollars, for each offense.

1929, ch. 351, sec. 76.

76. Whenever any Chief Recorder of the Superior Court of Baltimore
City or any Chief Clerk, Chief Deputy, Deputy or Assistant of the Clerk
of any of the Courts of Baltimore City, or of the Clerk of any of the
Circuit Courts for the several counties of Maryland, or of the Clerk of the
Court of Appeals of Maryland or other employee, exclusive of the said
Clerk himself and of the Recorders in the Superior Court of Baltimore
City, employed in the performance of any of the duties pertaining to the
Clerk's Office of any of the said Courts, whose compensation is limited and
fixed by the Comptroller of the State of Maryland in accordance with
Article 17, Section 18, of Bagby's Annotated Code of the Public General
Laws of Maryland, Edition of 1924, or whose salary is fixed by statute, or
whose appointment is subject to the approval of the Judges of the Court of
Appeals in accordance with said Article 17, Section 47 of Bagby's Anno-
tated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, Edition of 1924; and
likewise whenever any Chief Deputy, Deputy Register of Wills or Assist-
ant Register of Wills or other employee, exclusive of the Register himself,
employed in the performance of any of the duties pertaining to the office
of the Registers of Wills of the City of Baltimore and any of the several
counties of Maryland, whose compensation is limited and fixed by the
Comptroller of Maryland in accordance with Article 93, Section 289 of
Bagby's Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, Edition
of 1924, shall have served, in any one or more of said capacities, twenty-
five years and shall have attained the age of sixty years when in office or
having served as aforesaid twenty-five years and thereafter upon attaining
the age of sixty years, he or she shall be eligible for retirement, and may
upon his or her application be retired, and thereafter shall be entitled to,
and shall be paid, an annual retirement allowance equal to the result
obtained by multiplying the average salary paid to him or her for the five
years next preceding his or her retirement or discontinuance in office by
the number of years of his or her service, ascertained as aforesaid, and
divided by the number seventy.

And whenever any of said parties in this section shall break down physi-
cally, or because of any illness or casualty become permanently disabled or
disqualified for the further proper performance of the duties of his or her
position, while in the service of any such Clerk of the Court or Register of
Wills, as aforesaid, after having served a total of fifteen years in one or
more of said capacities, as aforesaid, he or she shall likewise be eligible