708 ARTICLE 3.

2. All rewards, gifts, testimonials and emoluments that may be pre-
sented, paid or given, to any member of the Police Department on account
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
Police Department on account of absence for any cause, lost time, sick-
ness 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 Police De-
partment 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 Police Department of Bal-
timore 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 neces-
sary to raise such sum.

And the Treasurer of Baltimore County shall keep such special fund
separate under the name of the Policemen's Special Fund of Baltimore
County.

1920, ch. 164, sec. 438G. B. Co. C. (1928), sec. 530.

530. The County Commissioners of Baltimore County be and they
are hereby authorized to retire from office in the Police Department of
Baltimore County any permanent member thereof who has become per-
manently disabled while in the active performance of duty or has per-
formed faithful service in the department for a period of not less than
twenty consecutive years, and place the member so retired upon a pension
roll and 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, that no member of the Police Department of Bal-
timore County shall be so retired until he shall have been examined by
the Board of Examiners herein provided for and their findings as to the
disability assigned as reason for a retirement shall have been certified by
them to the County Commissioners of Baltimore County; and provided
that members in the service of the Police Department at the time of the
passage of this Act shall be credited with the amount of time which they
shall have served in said department to the same extent as though they
had served such period in said department after the passage of this Act.