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of Baltimore County upon any member or members of the Fire Depart-
ment; and of

(2) All rewards, gifts, testimonials and emoluments that may be pre-
sented, paid or given to any member of the Fire Department on accoun

of service except such as said Commissioners allow said members to retain
and also all gifts or benefits which may be made to the said special fund

or to the said County Commissioners of Baltimore County.

(3) And all moneys, pay, compensation or salary or any part thereof
forfeited, deducted or withheld from any member or members of the Fire
Department on account of absence for any cause, lost time, sickness or

other disability, physical or moral.

(4) A sum of money not greater than four per centum of the semi-
monthly pay, salary or compensation of each member of the Fire Depart-
ment of Baltimore County entitled to participate in the special fund,
which sum shall be deducted every pay day from the pay, salary or com-
pensation of each and every member of said Fire Department of Balti-
more County by the Treasurer who shall deposit the same to the credit
of said special fund.

(5) In case the amount derived from the different sources mentioned
in this section and from the special fund shall not be sufficient to enable
the County Commissioners of Baltimore County at any time to pay in
full the salaries or pensions which may be hereafter granted and which

salaries shall at all times be a first charge on said fund, the said County
Commissioners of Baltimore County shall appropriate such sum as may
be necessary to meet such deficiency, and they are authorized to levy
such tax upon the assessable property of Baltimore County as may be
necessary to raise such sum.

And the Treasurer of Baltimore County shall keep such special fund
separate under the name of the Firemen's Special Fun

1922. ch. 290, sec. 216E. B. Co. C. (1928). sec. 245.

245. The County Commissioners of Baltimore County be and they are
hereby authorized to retire from office in the Fire Department of Bal-
timore County any permanent member thereof who has become perma-
nently disabled while in the active performance of duty, and place the
member so retired upon a pension roll and to allow to each pensioner
annually an amount equal to one-half the yearly amount received by him

at the time of his retirement, payable in monthly installments; said allow-
ance, however, shall be subject to increase or decrease in accordance with
the yearly amount paid members of the department doing similar work
to the member retired, and to be determined from time to time as said
yearly amounts paid might be increased or decreased by the County
Commissioners of Baltimore County. That no member of the Fire De-
partment of Baltimore County shall be so retired until he shall have been
examined by the Board of Examiners herein provided for and their find-