HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1163

ments for additional periods of time, and authorizing the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and of all other
municipal corporations in the State of Maryland, and the
governing bodies of any town or village having the taxing
power, and the County Commissioners of each county to
provide for such re-employment of and pension payments
for their respective employees in the military service.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That four new sections be and the same are hereby added
to Article 65 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edi-
tion), title "Militia", to be under a new sub-title "Re-employ-
ment of Persons in Military Service", said new sections to be
known as Sections 94, 95, 96 and 97, and to follow immediately
after Section 93 of said Article, and to read as follows:

94. Any person heretofore or hereafter inducted into the
land or naval forces of the United States for training and
service pursuant to the Act of Congress known as the Selective
Training and Service Act of 1940, or any subsequent Acts of
a similar nature, and any member of any reserve component
of the land or naval forces of the United States, who is on
active duty or service, or who may be ordered or assigned
to active duty or service, and who, because of such induction
or in order to perform such active duty or service, has left
or leaves a position, other than a temporary position, in the
employ of the State of Maryland, or of any department or
agency thereof, shall (1) if he receives a certificate of satis-
factory completion of such duty, (2) if he is still qualified
to perform the duties of such position, and (3) if he makes
application for re-employment within forty days after he is
relieved from such active duty or service, be restored to such
position or to a position of like seniority, status and pay.
Upon reinstatement, the time spent by such person in the
military service shall be added to his seniority, he shall be
entitled to the same pay which persons having the same
seniority and doing the same kind of work in the department
or service involved are receiving, and he shall be restored to
any merit system or civil service status held by him at the
time he entered such military service, just as though his
employment had not been interrupted.

95. The rights of any such person in any pension or retire-
ment fund or system, shall not be destroyed or impaired by
reason of his absence in such military service, or his failure
to contribute to such fund or system while he is in said
military service; such person shall have the right to make
the customary contributions or said contributions may be
made for him, but unless such contributions are actually made,