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Any person who shall wilfully swear falsely in any oath or
affirmation in obtaining or procuring any share or payment
from said fund under the provisions of this Act shall be
guilty of perjury.

216D. The said special fund shall consist of:
1. All fines and forfeitures imposed by the County Com-
missioners of Baltimore County upon any member or mem-
bers of the Fire Department; and of

2. All rewards, gifts, testimonials and emoluments that
may be presented, paid or given to any member of the Fire
Department on account of service except such as said Com-
missioners allow said members to retain and also all gifts or
benefits which may be made to the said special fund or to the
said County Commissioners of Baltimore County;

3. And all monies, pay, compensation or salary or any part
thereof forfeited, deducted or withheld from any member or
members of the Fire Department on account of absence for
any cause, lost time, sickness or other disability, physical or
moral.

4. A sum of money equal to but not greater than two per
centum of the semi-monthly pay, salary or compensation of
each member of the Fire Department of Baltimore County en-
titled to participate in the special fund, which sum shall be
deducted every pay day from the pay, salary or compensation
of each and every member of said Fire Department of Balti-
more County by the Treasurer who shall deposit the same to
the credit of said special fund.

5. In case the amount derived from the different sources
mentioned in this section and from the special fund shall not
be sufficient to enable the County Commissioners of Baltimore
County at any time to pay in full the salaries or pensions
which may be hereafter granted and which salaries shall at
all times be a first, charge on said fund, the said County Com-
missioners of Baltimore County shall appropriate such sum
as may be necessary to meet such deficiency, and they are au-
thorized to levy such tax upon the assessable property of Bal-
timore County as may be necessary to raise such sum.

And the Treasurer of Baltimore County shall keep such
special fund separate under the name of The Firemen's Spe-
cial Fund of Baltimore County.

216E. That the County Commissioners of Baltimore
County be and they are hereby authorised to retire from office