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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 195.

of Elmore Owens, deceased, and being also the same lot of
land which is described in a deed from certain George Eddie-
man and wife to certain Margaret J. Owens and others, dated
the eleventh day of December, 1894, and recorded in Liber
J. T. G. No. 5, folio 597, one of the land record books of said
Cecil county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Right
granted.

Maryland, That the right is hereby granted to the said T.
Morgan Owens, his heirs and assigns, to construct and main-
tain a wharf on the aforesaid lot of land into the Susquehanna
river, to the low water mark of said river.
SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.

CHAPTER 196.
AN ACT to add an additional Section to Article 77 of the
Code of Public General Laws, title "Public Education,"
sub-title "Teacher," to be known as Section 53 A, and to
follow Section 53, and to read as follows :
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

New section
added.

Maryland, That an additional section be added to Article 77
of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Public Education,"
sub-title "Teacher," to be known as section 53 A, to follow
section 53, and to read as follows :
53 A. Whenever any person in this State has taught in any

Pension
given
to persons
placed on
retired list.

of the public or normal schools thereof twenty-five years, and
has reached the age of sixty years, and his or her record ae
such teacher has been without reproach, and by reason of
physical or mental disability or infirmity is unable to teach
longer, the said teacher may lay his or her case before the
State Board of Education, and the said board shall proceed to
consider the same, and if the facts are found as above stated
the said teacher shall be placed upon a list, a record of which
shall be kept by the said board, to be known as the "Teachers'
Retired List," and the names upon the said "Teachers' Retired
List" shall be regularly certified by said board to the Comp-
troller of the Treasury of this State ; and every person so
placed upon the said "Retired List," shall be entitled to receive
a pension from this State of two hundred dollars per annum,
to be paid quarterly by Treasurer of this State upon the
warrant of the Comptroller.

Appropria-
tion.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the sum of ten thousand
dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not