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dition of the applicant in all cases in which the application is based upon
physical disability.

Thereafter if said Retirement Board find that any applicant is eligible
for retirement under any of the provisions of this sub-title, it shall be the
duty of the said Retirement Board to certify its findings of fact promptly
and in no case later than December 1 of any year, in the matter of every
application for retirement thereunder to the Governor of Maryland, and
state the amount of retirement allowance, if any, to which every applicant
is respectively entitled hereunder; and said Retirement Board shall on or
before December 1, 1929, and bi-ennially thereafter, submit to the Gov-
ernor an estimate of the sums required for present and past retirement
allowances, unpaid and unprovided for, as well as sums necessary to pay
future retirement allowances for the next two years, and which may be
anticipated, in accordance with the provisions of this sub-title (to the end
that applicants may in every instance receive the benefits of their retire-
ment allowance from the date of the certification of its favorably and
affirmative findings by said Retirement Board to the Governor) until the
next Budget Appropriation becomes operative, and likewise the sums
necessary to meet the requirements for costs, expenses, etc., as aforesaid
already made including the expenses of said Retirement Board and its
members, as aforesaid. And it shall be the duty of the Governor in his
Budget to allow for and recommend the appropriation of such amounts as
are necessary to meet and pay such retirement allowances, costs, expenses,
etc., and submit the same to the General Assembly. Provided, however,
the sum or sums necessary to meet the payments required for retirement
allowances and the said expenses of said Board under this said Retirement
System shall be paid out of the monies paid into the Treasury of the State
by the several said Clerks of the Courts and Registers of Wills for Balti-
more City and the counties of Maryland from their excess fees and collec-
tions; and provided, further, that retirement allowances hereunder shall
be paid monthly.

1929. ch. 351, sec. 78.

78. The said Retirement Board shall be vested with all the powers and
duties necessary or proper to enable it to carry out fully and effectually all
the purposes of this sub-title. A majority of said Retirement Board shall
constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business or for the exercise
of any power or duty, and may hold meetings of the said Retirement Board
at any time or place within the State. All hearings of said Retirement
Board shall be open to the public, and all documents or records in its pos-
session shall be public records, and open to the public for inspection at
reasonable times, and all hearings before said Retirement Board shall be
governed by rules to be adopted and prescribed by it, and said Retirement
Board shall not be bound by technical rules of evidence.¹

¹ Sec. 2 of ch 351 of the acts of 1929 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.