212 ARTICLE 1.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 1. sec. 225. 1884. ch. 39.

585. There shall not be expended in any one year more than the sum of
three thousand dollars for the maintenance of such schools; and if the
county school commissioners shall not have a sufficient surplus, after pay-
ing all necessary expenses of the ordinary public schools of the said county,
to meet such expenditures, the County Commissioners shall levy the same
as other county taxes are levied.

TEACHEES—PENSIONS.*
1912, ch. 463, sec. 1.

586. 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 compensation for their duties as members
of said board. The said Board of Trustees shall be composed of the Coun-
ty Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the President of the Board
of School Commissioners, and three members of the teaching force of Alle-
gany County who shall be elected in the following manner: On the third
Monday in November in each year, beginning in the year 1912, the mem-
bers 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 there-
for, and the three teachers receiving 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 following the date said
ballots were deposited. Provided, however, 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 said
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 practi-
cable after the passage of this Act the president of the School Board of
Allegany County shall call a meeting of said Board of Trustees.

1912, ch. 463, sec. 2.

587. The members of the said Board of Trustees shall hold office until
their successors are elected and become members as provided by the preced-

*Ch. 463, 1912, has apparently been superseded by the State Teachers' Retirement
System. See ch. 344, Acts 1927 (1929 Supplement to Annotated Code, Art. 77, secs.
92-105).