928 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 774

this State all advantages available under the Wagner-
Peyser Act, as amended, the Social Security Act, as amend-
ed, and the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, as amended.
Any person who was in the employ of the Maryland
State Employment Service at the time that the said Ser-
vice and its personnel were taken over by the United States
Employment Service and who has remained in the employ
of the United States Employment Service and has not
withdrawn his accumulated contributions to the Employees'
Retirement System of the State of Maryland shall be re-
stored to active membership in the said System when the
operation of the Maryland State Employment Service shall
be resumed, without loss of creditable service which had
accrued up to January 1, 1942. Any person who, under
the aforegoing provision, is restored to active membership
in the said System, shall receive credit for membership ser-
vice for the period during which the personnel of the Mary-
land State Employment Service was taken over by the
United States Employment Service; provided that, within
such time or times after return to the State service as the
Board of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement System of
Maryland may by rule provide, such employee makes up
the contributions which would have been paid by the em-
ployee if such employee had remained continuously in the
State service; and provided further that such contribution
as shall be determined by the Board of Trustees of the
Employees' Retirement System of the State of Maryland
is made to the Employees' Retirement System of the State
of Maryland to cover the employer's liability for such pe-
riod, by transfer to the Employees' Retirement System of
the State of Maryland of contributions made by the United
States to any retirement s/stem of which the employee was
a member during the period of employment by the United
States, or otherwise, or by the State of Maryland, on such
terms and conditions as shall be prescribed by the Board
of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement System of the
State of Maryland. Any former employee who is eligible
for reinstatement in the Employee's Retirement System of
the State of 'Maryland, under the other provisions of this
Section, but who withdrew his accumulated contributions
after the Maryland State Employment Service was taken
over by the United States Employment Service, shall be
restored to active membership in the Employees' Retirement
System of the State of Maryland, upon paying to said Sys-
tem the total amount of contributions withdrawn plus inter-
est at the rate of four per cent. (4%) per annum from
the date of withdrawal to the date or dates on which such
contributions are repaid, provided the total amount of such
contributions, with interest, are repaid within such period