BALTIMORE COUNTY. 783

716-722. Ch. 243, Acts of 1922 authorized the County Commissioners
to issue $3,000,000 of coupon bonds for the erection and equipment of
school buildings and for improving roads, and to levy taxes to pay the
interest on and to redeem said bonds.

Ch. 30, Acts of 1929, authorized the County Commissioners to issue coupon bonds
to the extent of $2,000,000 for erection and equipment of new school buildings and
the purchase of land necessary therefor and for the permanent improvement
of old school buildings and to levy taxes to pay the interest on and to redeem
said bonds.

TEACHERS' RETIREMENT FUND.

1912, ch. 83, sec. 376A. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 585. 1928, sec. 723.
723. There shall be a board to be known as the Board of Trustees of
the Teachers' Retirement Fund of Baltimore County to be composed of
nine persons, who shall serve without compensation for their duties as
members of said Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement Fund of
Baltimore County. The said Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retire-
ment Fund of Baltimore County shall be composed of the president of the
County Commissioners of Baltimore County, the county superintendent of
public education of Baltimore County, two members of the Board of
County School Commissioners of Baltimore County, to be elected by said
Board of County School Commissioners annually in the month of No-
vember, beginning in the year 1913, and the members so elected shall
become members of said Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement
Fund of Baltimore County on the fifteenth day of January next following
the date of their election, provided that as soon as practicable after the
passage of this Act the Board of County School Commissioners of Balti-
more County shall elect two of its members to serve as members of the said
Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement Fund of Baltimore County
until the members elected in November, 1913, shall become members of
said Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement Fund of Baltimore
County, and five members of the teaching force of Baltimore County, who
shall be elected in the following manner: On the third Saturday of No-
vember in each year, beginning in the year 1913, the members of the
teaching force of Baltimore County shall deposit with the said Board of
Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement Fund of Baltimore County a sealed
ballot containing the names of five teachers, representing his or her choice
for membership of the said Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement
Fund of Baltimore County. The Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Re-
tirement Fund of Baltimore County shall examine said ballots and give to
each teacher receiving a vote credit therefor, and the five teachers receiv-
ing the highest, number of votes under the said ballots shall become mem-
bers of the said Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement Fund of
Baltimore County on the fifteenth day of January next following the date
of their election. The Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement
Fund of Baltimore County shall publicly announce the result of said elec-
tion not later than the fifteenth day of December next following the date