ART. 4.] CITY OF BALTIMORE. 599

acceptance of the provisions of this Act and amendments there-
to, under section 102E, and assessments upon the salary of each
and every teacher who may be appointed after the date of the
passage of this Act, as follows: one per centum per annum (but
not more than $ 14.40) upon the salary of every teacher who
shall not have been engaged in excess of ten years in the public
schools of Baltimore city; one and one-half per centum per
annum (but not more than $21.60) upon the salary of every
teacher who shall have been engaged in excess of ten years but
not more than twenty years in said public schools; and two
per centum per annum (but not more than $28.80) upon the
salary of every teacher who shall have been engaged longer
than twenty years in said public schools, and the secretary of
the Board of School Commissioners shall prepare monthly a
roll of assessments and place opposite the name of each and
every teacher liable thereto one-twelfth of the amount of the
annual assessment payable by him or her, and shall furnish
forthwith a copy of such roll to the City Register, and the said
City Register shall deduct and retain out of the monthly
salary due to such teacher the amount of such monthly assess-
ment, and the sum of such monthly assessments shall be imme-
diately paid by the City Register to the said board of trustees.
Second: Sums received from the Mayor and Council as follows:
In case the board of trustees shall deem it expedient to have an
additional sum to defray its expenses, to pay the salaries pro-
vided for herein or to add to the Teachers' Retirement Fund,
the said board of trustees shall each year, in due time, prepare
a full and detailed statement of the assets of said Teachers' Re-
tirement Fund, and the additional sum which is required to de-
fray said expenses, to pay said salaries or to add to the Teachers'
Retirement Fund, and send the same to the Board of Estimates,
as other estimates are sent to it in connection with the annual
ordinance of estimates, and the Board of Estimates is hereby
empowered, in its discretion, to insert such an appropriation
in said ordinance for said purposes as it may deem proper, and
when said appropriation has been received the same shall be
paid over to the board of trustees, and the unexpended balance
remaining at the end of each fiscal year shall be added to the
permanent fund in accordance with section 102M of this Act.
Third: All money, property of any kind or securities that may
come into the hands of said board of trustees for the purposes
of said Teachers' Retirement Fund by gift, grant, devise, be-
quest or otherwise.

102H. The Board of School Commissioners may retire from
regular duty, upon its motion, and shall retire from regular
duty, upon his or her own motioji, in either case the approval