HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 693

ployee of said Department or of said Commissioner on or before
October 1, 1941, may elect to remove himself from said Pension
Fund and may apply for and be admitted to membership in
said Employees' Retirement System as hereinafter provided;
and within 60 days after said Superintendent shall receive
written notice of election so to remove he shall, out of the
moneys held by him in said Pension Fund, pay to any em-
ployee or license examiner so electing to remove the total
amount of contribution theretofore made by him to said Fund,
without interest;

(3) Any civilian employee or license examiner of the Com-
missioner of Motor Vehicles who is removed or elects to re-
move himself from said Pension Fund shall be entitled to
membership in said Employees' Retirement System and may
at any time thereafter become a member thereof by filing with
the Board of Trustee of said System application on a form
prescribed by said Board. If any such application is made
before June 1, 1944, the applicant shall be admitted to mem-
bership in said System with the same prior service credit, and
shall be entitled to the same retirement allowances and other
benefits, as employees of the State of Maryland who became
members thereof as of October 1, 1941, and have remained
such in good standing since that date; provided, however,
that any such applicant shall, before being admitted into such
membership, pay to said Board of Trustees, a sum equivalent
to the total of all contributions made by him to the Pension
Fund of said State Police between October 1, 1941, and the
date of his removal or of his election to remove from said
Fund. No such person applying for membership in said Sys-
tem on or after June 1, 1944, shall be entitled to receive such
prior service credit;

(4) No civilian employee of said Department or license
examiner of said Commissioner who becomes an employee of
said Department or of said Commissioner on or after June 1,
1943, shall be entitled to contribute to, or be eligible to become
a member of, the Pension Fund of said Department, but shall
become a member of, and shall in every respect be subject to,
said Employees' Retirement System.

SEC. 2. And be it -further enacted., That Section 6 of Article
88B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition) be
and the same is hereby repealed; provided, however, that noth-
ing in this Section 2 shall be construed to remove from the
Department of Maryland State Police any of the employees or
other personnel, who were transferred to said Department in
accordance with Section 6 of Chapter 303 of the Acts of 1935,
or to affect in any way their privileges, rights or status under