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1912, ch. 463, sec. 19. 1924, ch. 87.

604. There shall also be created and established by this Act a Teachers'
Relief Fund, which shall be collected and disbursed by the same Board
of Trustees as have been provided for the Retirement Fund.

The treasurer of the Board of School Commissioners is hereby empow-
ered and required to deduct and retain out of the monthly salary due each,
teacher, excepting August and September, twenty-five cents, and the sum
of such monthly assessments shall be immediately paid by the treasurer
of the School Board of Allegany County to the said Board of Trustees,

providing that no deductions be made before September, 1912.

Any teacher of the public schools who has been disabled or incapacitated
from performing regular school work for a period greater than twenty
consecutive school days shall be paid out of said Relief Fund $2.00 per
day for a period not greater than fifty days in any school year unless the
Board of Education should recommend to the Board of Trustees that relief
be extended for a longer period and for a greater amount herein provided
for.

And provided that each teacher shall furnish each month a certificate-
from his or her physician that he or she is incapacitated from regular duty
and provided that said Board of Trustees shall have the right to have
said teacher examined by some other physician at its discretion.

In case the assessment herein provided for should not be sufficient to
meet the needs of said Relief Fund, the Treasurer of the School Board
shall be empowered to deduct one dollar or any part thereof from the
salary of each teacher for the month of July, in addition to the twenty-
five cents already provided for, and said treasurer shall pay same to the
Board of Trustees, as heretofore provided for.

Should there be any surplus in the Relief Fund, it may at the discre-
tion of the Board of Trustees be transferred to the Retirement Fund.

Section 602 shall not apply to the Relief Fund, which shall be opera-
tive from September 30, 1912.

The terms "teacher" and "members of the teaching force of Allegany
County," as used in this Act, shall mean and include any superintendent,
principal, vice-principal, assistant superintendent, supervisor, assistant
supervisor, person in charge of any special department of instruction, and
any teacher or instructor regularly employed as such by the Board of
School Commissioners of said county.

1916, ch. 123.

605. The provisions of the foregoing sections of this Act shall apply to
any teacher employed at the Maryland State Normal School No. 2, lo-
cated at Frostburg, who was, at the time of the passage of said Act, as
teacher employed in any public school of Allegany County.