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shall have given meritorious service as such employee for a period of twenty
years, of which the last ten years shall have been continuous, or who shall
reach the age of sixty-four years, such employee shall be forthwith retired
by the Board of Correction whether or not the employee in question files an
application for retirement, but the Board of Correction may, in its discre-
tion, delay such retirement for such time as it may deem proper, and in all
retirements made under the provisions of this section the employee in ques-
tion shall receive the same rate of pay as provided in Section 793 hereof.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 708. 1924, ch. 408, sec. 660.

795. It shall be the duty of the Director of Correction to notify the Gov-
ernor promptly of all retirements under the provisions of this sub-title, and
all such retirements shall be subject to revocation by the Governor at any
time. In case of revocation by the Governor, he shall notify the Board of
Correction, and thereupon the retirement and all payments on account shall
cease. The Board of Correction shall also have power to revoke such retire-
ments at any time and for any cause which it may deem sufficient.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 709. 1924, ch. 408, sec. 661.

796. All applicants for retirement under the provisions of this sub-title
and all employees eligible for retirement under Section Y94 hereof shall be
subject to medical examination by the regular physicians of the Maryland
House of Correction or the Maryland Penitentiary, or by any other phy-
sician the Board of Correction may select, and all such applicants shall
furnish such other evidence affecting their application for retirement as
the Board of Correction may require.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 710. 1924, ch. 408, sec. 662.

797. It shall be the duty of the Director of Correction not later than the
first day of December, 1926, and biennially thereafter, to certify to the
Governor of the State a full record of all persons retired under the pro-
visions of this sub-title, whose retirements have not been revoked by the
Governor, and the rate of pay respectively awarded them, and also an esti-
mate of the sum required for future retirements in accordance with the
provisions of this sub-title until the next budget appropriation becomes
operative, and the items required to meet the requirements already made,
together with such further sum as the Governor may deem necessary to
meet said future retirements, shall be included in the budget submitted by
the Governor to the General Assembly. Payments to retired employees
under the provisions of this sub-title shall be paid as other salaries are paid,
but the Board of Correction shall not make retirements that will require the
expenditures of any money in excess of the appropriation duly authorized
for that purpose.

Convicts Becoming Insane.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 711. 1912, sec. 676. 1912, ch. 496.

798.¹ Whenever any convict confined in any jail in any city or county
in this State shall become insane or lunatic, the warden of such jail, or any
person on behalf of such convict, may file a petition, either during the ses-

¹ Apparently it was not the intention of act of 1916, ch. 556, to repeal sec. 711, although
the matter is not entirely clear.