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the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its pas-
sage.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 87.

AN ACT to repeal Section 19 of Chapter 463 of the Acts of
Assembly of the State of Maryland of 1912 concerning the
Teachers' Retirement Fund of Allegany County and re-
enacting the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 19 of Chapter 463 of the Acts of the
Assembly of the State of Maryland of 1912 concerning the
Teachers' Retirement Fund of Allegany County be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 19. There shall also be created and established by this
Act a Teachers' Relief Fund, which shall be collected and dis-
bursed by the same board of trustees as have been provided
for the Retirement Fund.

The treasurer of the Board of School Commissioners is here-
by empowered and required to deduct and retain out of the
monthly salary due each teacher, excepting August and Sep-
tember, twenty-five cents, and the sum of such monthly assess-
ments shall be immediately paid by the treasurer of the School
Board of Allegany County to the said board of trustees, pro-
viding that no deductions be made before September, 1912.

Any teacher of the public schools who has been disabled or
incapacitated from performing regular school work for a period
greater than twenty consecutive school days shall be paid out
of said Relief Fund $2. 00 per day for a period not greater
than fifty days in any school year unless the Board of Educa-
tion should recommend to the Board of Trustees that relief be
extended for a longer period and for a greater amount herein
provided for.

And provided that each teacher shall furnish each month a
certificate from his or her physician that he or she is inca-
pacitated from regular duty and provided that said Board of
Trustees shall have the right to have said teacher examined by
some other physician at its discretion.

In case the assessment herein provided for should not be
sufficient to meet the needs of said Relief Fund, the Treasurer