952 ARTICLE 4.

in each year the members of the teaching force of Baltimore City shall

deposit with the said board of, trustees a sealed ballot containing the names
of three teachers 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 therefor, 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 fif-
teenth day of December next following the date said ballots were deposited.

1908, ch. 78.

102B. The members of the said Board of Trustees shall hold office
until their successors are elected and become members as provided by the
preceding section. In case of a vacancy in said Board of Trustees by
reason of death, resignation, or through any other cause, of a member
of the teaching force, the Board of Trustees shall elect a member of said
teaching force as a member of said Board of Trustees for the unexpired
term of the person who has ceased to be such; in case of a vacancy on said
Board of Trustees by reason of death, resignation or through any other

cause, of a member of the Board of School Commissioners, the said
Board of School Commissioners shall forthwith elect one of its members
us a member of said Board of Trustees for the unexpired term of the
person who has ceased to be such.

1908, ch. 78.

102C. A majority of said Board of Trustees shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of all business, and the said Board shall have full
power to make and enforce all by-laws, rules and orders that it may deem
necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this sub-division of
this Charter, and said Board of Trustees may take by gift, grant, devise
or bequest, any money, personal property, real estate or any interest
therein, and any such gift, grant, devise or bequest may be absolute, or
upon the condition that only the rents, profits and income arising from
the same shall be applied to the uses and purposes of the Teachers' Retire-
ment Fund, hereinafter mentioned, and said Board shall be authorized
to take such gift, devise or bequest under and by the style of the Board
of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement Fund of Baltimore City, and to
hold the same, or assign, transfer or sell the same, whenever proper and
necessary, under and by such name.

1908, ch. 78.

102D. Said Board of Trustees shall elect from its members a presi-
dent, and shall appoint a secretary and a treasurer, both of which offices
may be held by the same person, and the said Board of Trustees shall
have power to appoint such other employees as it may from time to time
deem necessary to carry ont the purposes of this subdivision of this Char-