1264 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 592

shall exceed a total of one dollar a day, or be less than the
minimum required to provide a reasonable subsistence com-
patible with decency and health.

3. An old age pension may be granted only to an appli-
cant who:

(1) Has attained the age of sixty-five years or up-
wards.

(2) Has been a citizen of the United States for at
least fifteen years before making application for a pension.

(3) Has resided in the State for at least five years with-
in the ten years immediately preceding the date of appli-
cation; provided, that absence in the service of the State of
Maryland or of the United States shall be deemed to consti-
tute residence in the State if a domicile be not acquired out-
side of the State.

(4) Is not at the date of making application an inmate
of any prison, jail, workhouse, insane asylum, or any public
correctional institution.

(5) During the period of ten years immediately pre-
ceeding such date has not been imprisoned for a felony.

(6) If a husband, has not, without just cause, failed
to support his wife and his children under the age of sixteen
years for six months or more during the fifteen years
preceding the date of application for a pension.

(7) Has not, within one year preceding such applica-
tion for a pension been a habitual tramp or beggar.

(8) Has no child or other person responsible, under the
laws of this State, for his or her support and able to sup-
port him or her: provided that if such child or other person
is partially able to support the applicant, such partial sup-
port shall be taken into consideration in fixing the amount
of any pension that may be granted.

4. No old age pension shall be paid to a person:

(1) While or during the time he or she is an inmate of
and receives the necessities of life from any institution,
wholly maintained by the State or any of the political sub-
divisions of the State.

(2) Who has deprived himself or herself, directly or
indirectly, of any property for the purpose of qualifying
for an old age pension.

5. An applicant for a pension shall file his or her
application in writing with the Local Board of the County
in which he or she resides or with the Department of Wel-