ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 989

tirement Board, " and to provide a system of retirement for
certain court employees.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That four new sections be and they are hereby added
to Article 17 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924 Edi-
tion), title "Clerks of Courts, " said new sections to be known
as Sections 75-78, inclusive, to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 74 of said Article, to be under the sub-title "Clerks and
Registers Retirement Board, " and to read as follows:

75. A Board is hereby created and established, to be
known as the "Clerks and Registers Retirement Board" (here-
inafter called the Retirement Board) which shall consist
of the Comptroller of the State of Maryland and the Clerk of
the Court of Appeals of the State of Maryland and the Treas-
urer of the State of Maryland for the time being, which said
Retirement Board shall have charge of the administration of
the General Retirement System herein created and established;
and the Clerk of the Court of Appeals shall, in addition to his
other duties as a member of said Retirement Board, act as
Secretary thereof. The members of said Retirement Board
shall serve without pay, but they and said Board shall be
reimbursed out of and by the State Treasury for all necessary
expenses which the said Retirement Board, or its members
may incur and sustain through and by reason of services per-
formed in administering this General Retirement System for
travel, rent, pay of witnesses, fees, costs, clerical help, postage,
packing, transportation and incidentals.

And said Retirement Board shall have the power (as here-
inafter provided) to enforce its orders, to make by-laws, to
employ such clerical help as may be necessary, and to require
the several Clerks of Courts of Record, and the Registers of
Wills of Maryland to furnish to it upon application, free of
cost, certified copies of any records or papers in their official
custody as, and when, necessary; and to require the attendance
of witnesses and the production of papers, under summons,
subpoena or other process, before said Retirement Board; for
any purpose connected with the duties of said Board; and to
administer the oath to witnesses.

Said Board shall have the power to issue summons or pro-
cess, when sitting in any county or the City of Baltimore to
the Sheriff of said county or city; and such summons or pro-