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of the Retirement and Pension System of the Maryland State
Police may select; and all such employees so eligible shall
furnish such other evidence affecting their application for
retirement as the Board of Trustees of the Retirement and
Pension System of the Maryland State Police may require.

If a member of the State Police becomes physically in-
capable of performing his duties and such disability is the
result of an accident or injury occurring in the course of
duty or is the result of sickness, accident or disease con-
tracted in the course of duty and if such member has been
in the Department for ten years or more, then he shall be
entitled to the same retirement pension as provided for in
Section 31, provided that such employee be found, after medi-
cal examination given by a medical Board of three physi-
cians, consisting of the Medical Examiner of the Depart-
ment of Maryland State Police and two other physicians to
be selected by the Board of Trustees of the Retirement and
Pension System of the Maryland State Police and acceptable
to the State Police Department employee concerned, to be
physically incapable of performing his duties.

If any member of the Department of Maryland State Police
dies either before or after retirement from the service on a
pension, leaving a widow or child or children under the age
of sixteen (16) years, the widow shall receive a pension from
said Fund in an amount not to exceed Sixty Dollars ($60. 00)
per month until her death or re-marriage, and each child
under the age of sixteen (16) years shall receive a pension
not to exceed Ten Dollars ($10. 00) per month until death
or reaching the age of sixteen (16) years. No widow, child
or children resulting from any marriage contracted sub-
sequent to retirement of the husband or father from the De-
partment shall receive any relief under the provisions of this
sub-title.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1949.

Approved April 22, 1949.

CHAPTER 351
(House Bill 370)

AN ACT to add two new sections to Article 20 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Somerset County", to be under sub-title "Crisfield", said