600 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of the board of trustees to be first obtained, any teacher who
has been such for a period of forty years at the time such
application is made, and the teacher so retired, provided he or
she shall be entitled to the advantages of this Act under sec-
tion 102B or 102F hereof, shall receive for life the salary pro-
vided for by section 102o. Every teacher who is such at the
time of the passage of this Act, for the purposes of retirement
under this section or the next succeeding section, after service
of twenty years as a member of the teaching force of Balti-
more city, shall be entitled to full credit for his or her years
of service as a public school teacher elsewhere.

102I. The Board of School Commissioners shall retire from
regular duty, upon his or her own application, any teacher who
has been such for a period of twenty years at the time such,
application is made, and who is disabled or incapacitated from
performing regular duty, provided the board of trustees shall
find such teacher so disabled or incapacitated after an examina-
tion made by a physician appointed by said board of trustees,
the examination fee or charge to be paid by the teacher exam-
ined, and the teacher so retired, provided he or she shall be
entitled to the advantages of this Act under sections 102B and
102p hereof, shall receive for life a salary of as many fortieths
of that provided for by section 102O, as he or she may have
served years at the time of such retirement, and if the Board
of School Commissioners shall deem any teacher who has been
such for a period of twenty years at the time the notices herein
provided for are given, to be disabled or incapacitated from
performing regular duty, the said Board of School Commis-
sioners shall serve written notice to that effect upon the said
teacher, and the president or secretary of the board of trustees,
and proceedings shall then be had, after the notice pro-
vided for in section 102K, in accordance with the provisions
of said section. If the board of trustees after such proceed-
ings are had, shall find the said teacher to be incapacitated
from performing regular duty, the Board of School Commis-
sioners may retire such teacher from regular duty, and such
teacher, if so retired, shall be entitled to a salary in the same
manner and amount as if he or she had been retired upon his
or her own application under this section.

102J. Unless teachers who may be retired under the two
preceding sections, shall have paid into said Teachers' Retire-
ment Fund, by way of assessment or otherwise, an amount
equal at least to that which he or she shall be entitled to re-
ceive as a salary for the first year of retirement, the said
board of trustees shall deduct .one-fifth of the deficiency thereof