EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 58 of Article 77 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland of 1904 be and the same is^:
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to
read as. follows :

Section 58. Whenever any person in this State has taught
in any of the public or normal schools thereof twenty-five
years, and has reached the age of sixty years, and his or her

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Repeal and
re-enact.

record as such teacher has been without reproach, and by
reason of physical or mental disability or infirmity is unable
to teach longer, and who, moreover, is without the means of
comfortable support, the said teacher may lay his or her case
before the State Board of Education, supported in all cases
by the recommendation of the board of county school com-
missioners of the county in which said teacher has last
taught, 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 on 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 "Teachers' Retired
List" shall be, on or before the first day of October of each
and every year, certified to by said board to the Comptroller
of the Treasury of this State; and every person so placed
upon said retired list shall be entitled to receive a pension
from the State of two hundred dollars per annum, to be paid
quarterly by the Treasurer of this State, upon the warrant of
the Comptroller, so long as the said pensioner is without
other means of comfortable support; that the sum of

Teachers
retiring
list.

twenty-five thousand dollars per annum, or as much thereof .
as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any
moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry
into effect the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1906.

Appropriation