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ment Board) which shall consist of the Comptroller of the State of Mary-
land and the Clerk of the Court of Appeals of the State of Maryland and
the Treasurer of the State of Maryland for the time being, which said
^Retirement Board shall have charge of the administration of the General
Retirement System herein created and established; and the Clerk of the
Court of Appeals shall, in addition to his other duties as a member of said
Retirement Board, act as Secretary thereof. The members of said Retire-
ment Board shall serve without pay, but they and said Board shall be reim-
bursed out of and by the State Treasury for all necessary expenses which
the said Retirement Board, or its members may incur and sustain through
and by reason of services performed in administering this General Retire-
ment System for travel, rent, pay of witnesses, fees, costs, clerical help,
postage, packing, transportation and incidentals.

And said Retirement Board shall have the power (as hereinafter pro-
vided) to enforce its orders, to make by-laws, to employ such clerical help
as may be necessary, and to require the several Clerks of Courts of Record,
and the Registers of Wills of Maryland to furnish to it upon application,
free of cost, certified copies of any records or papers in their official custody
as, and when, necessary; and to require the attendance of witnesses and the
production of papers, under summons, subpoena or other process, before
said Retirement Board; for any purpose connected with the duties of said
Board ; and to administer the oath to -witnesses.

Said Board shall have the power to issue summons or process, when
sitting in any county or the City of Baltimore to the Sheriff of said
county or city; and such summons or process shall be served by said respec-
tive officers in the same manner as if the same was issued by a court of
Record having jurisdiction of the subject matter within such respective
jurisdiction. The officer making such service of process and likewise wit-
nesses, for their attendance and mileage, shall receive the same fees as are
now or may hereafter be provided in cases in Courts of Record.

Whoever shall wilfully fail or refuse to obey a summons, subpoena or
other process issued by said Board and duly served, or whoever shall
wilfully refuse to testify or wilfully ignore or disobey any order of said
Retirement Board shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars and not
exceeding one hundred dollars, for each offense.

1929, ch. 351, sec. 76.

76. Whenever any Chief Recorder of the Superior Court of Baltimore
City or any Chief Clerk, Chief Deputy, Deputy or Assistant of the Clerk
of any of the Courts of Baltimore City, or of the Clerk of any of the
Circuit Courts for the several counties of Maryland, or of the Clerk of the
Court of Appeals of Maryland or other employee, exclusive of the said
Clerk himself and of the Recorders in the Superior Court of Baltimore
City, employed in the performance of any of the duties pertaining to the
Clerk's Office of any of the said Courts, whose compensation is limited and
fixed by the Comptroller of the State of Maryland in accordance with