992 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 351

every applicant is respectively entitled hereunder; and said
Retirement Board shall on or before December 1, 1929, and bi-
ennially thereafter, submit to the Governor an estimate of the
sums required for present and past retirement allowances, un-
paid and unprovided for, as well as sums necessary to pay
future retirement allowances for the next two years, and which
may be anticipated, in accordance with the provisions of the
Act (to the end that applicants may in every instance receive
the benefits of their retirement allowance from the date of
the certification of its favorably and affirmative findings by
said Retirement Board to the Governor) until the next Budget
Appropriation becomes operative, and likewise the sums neces-
sary to meet the requirements for costs, expenses, etc., as
aforesaid already made including the expenses of said Retire-
ment Board and its members, as aforesaid. And it shall be the
duty of the Governor in his Budget to allow for and recom-
mend the appropriation of such amounts as are necessary to
meet and pay such retirement allowances, costs, expenses, etc.,
and submit the same to the General Assembly. Provided, how-
ever, the sum or sums necessary to meet the payments required
for retirement allowances and the said expenses of said Board
under this said Retirement System shall be paid out of the
monies paid into the Treasury of the State by the several said
Clerks of the Courts and Registers of Wills for Baltimore City
and the counties of Maryland from their excess fees and col-
lections; and provided, further, that retirement allowances
hereunder shall be paid monthly.

78. The said Retirement Board shall be vested with all the
powers and duties necessary or proper to enable it to carry out
fully and effectually all the purposes of this Act. A majority
of said Retirement Board shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of any business or for the exercise of any power or
duty, and may hold meetings of the said Retirement Board at
any time or place within the State. All hearings of said Re-
tirement Board shall be open to the public, and all documents
or records in its possession shall be public records, and open
to the public for inspection at reasonable times, and all hearings
before said Retirement Board shall be governed by rules to be
adopted and prescribed by it, and said Retirement Board shall
not be bound by technical rules of evidence.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts and parts
of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, in so far