226 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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

Approved April 8, 1908.

CHAPTER 605.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section 58 of
article 77 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland of
1904, title "Public Education. "

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

SEC. 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 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 Commis-
sioners 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 the 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 pen-
sioner is without other means of comfortable support, provided
that after October 1, 1907, any person whose name is placed on
said list for the first time shall receive pay from the date of
approval of application by the State Board of Education. That
the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars per annum, or so 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.