WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1859

shall be eligible for teaching positions in the State regardless
of their ability to become members of the Retirement System.

SEC. 2. And 1)6 it further enacted., That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1949.

Approved May 6, 1949.

CHAPTER 755

(House Bill 684)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
127A of Article 41 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition and 1947 Supplement), title "Governor—Executive
and Administrative Departments", sub-title "Hall of Rec-
ords Commission", and to add two new sections, said new
sections to be known as Sections 127B and 127C, and to
follow immediately after Sections 127A of said Article, pro-
viding for the disposal of certain types of records, for a
definition of "record" and for the scheduling of periodic
destruction of certain types of records.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 127A of Article 41 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1939 Edition and 1947 Supplement), title
"Governor — Executive and Administrative Departments",
sub-title "Hall of Records Commission", be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and that two new
sections be and they are hereby added, said new sections to
be known as Sections 127B and 127C, to follow immediately
after Section 127A of said Article, and to read as follows:

127A. If the Commission shall decline to accept any original
papers, official books, records, documents or files offered to it
under the provisions of Section 127, then the custodian
thereof, with the written approval of the Board of Public
Works, is authorized and empowered to destroy the same.
After such records are destroyed, the custodian thereof shall
file with the Hall of Records a list of all papers, books, docu-
ments and files destroyed and a certificate of destruction.
Such lists shall be retained in the custody of the Archivist and
shall be available at reasonable times to inspection by the
members of the public. Nothing in this section shall authorize
the destruction of (a) papers, books, documents or files
which have been in custody for a period of less than three