1062                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 639

that any elected judge who has retired or who hereafter voluntarily
retires from active service after reaching the age of sixty years and
before reaching the age of seventy years, and resumes the practice
of law, shall not be entitled to the increases in salary or pension
provided by this Act, but shall be paid the salary or pension at the
rate provided before the passage of this Act. In the event that a
retired judge engaged in the practice of law should thereafter re-
linquish such practice and notify the Governor and Comptroller of the
State of such fact, then, from and after the date of such notification
the judge shall be entitled to all the benefits provided by this Act. In
the case of an elected judge who may serve on the. Court of Appeals
subsequent or prior to service as a Circuit Court judge for any of the
counties or of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, the amount of
pension per annum shall be calculated according to the total years of
active service not exceeding twenty at the pension rate fixed herein.
This section shall apply to all elected judges already retired from
active service except as provided herein. Any former judge who
accepts any salaried public office or position, municipal, county, State
or Federal, shall not be paid any pension or salary so long as he
remains in such office or position. The Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore and the County Commissioners of the several counties are
hereby expressly authorized to levy for and pay additional pensions
or salaries to such former judges of the Court of Appeals, the
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City and the Circuit Courts of the
counties who served or may hereafter serve in the judicial circuits
in which the City of Baltimore or any county exercising the authority
conferred herein is located; and any such provision heretofore made
is hereby ratified and confirmed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a new section be and it is
hereby added to Article 26 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951
Edition), title "Courts," sub-title "Pensions for Judges," said new
section to be known as Section 48A 49A, to follow immediately after
Section 48 49 and to read as follows:

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49A. THE WIDOW OF EVERY ELECTED JUDGE WHO
DIES IN ACTIVE SERVICE SHALL BE PAID ONE-HALF OF
THE PENSION OR SALARY TO WHICH SUCH JUDGE WOULD
HAVE BEEN ENTITLED ON THE DATE OF HIS DEATH IF HE
HAD BEEN ELIGIBLE FOR RETIREMENT AND HAD RE-