1132                            Laws of Maryland                       Ch. 517

Teachers' Retirement System," to increase minimum standard
amount for retirement benefits to public school teachers in Kent
County and maintain additional payments applied thereto.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 200(b) of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1969 Replacement Volume), title "Public Education," subtitle
"Chapter 17. Teachers' Retirement System," be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

200.

(b) When benefits less than [$125] $175 per month in Kent
County.—Any public school teacher of Kent County who retired prior
to July 1, 1956, and who is receiving any retirement benefits (exclu-
sive of a disability retirement allowance) under the provisions of this
subtitle, when such benefits in the aggregate are less than one hun-
dred and [twenty-five ($125.00)] seventy-five ($175.00) per month,
shall receive an additional sum not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00)
per month upon application to the Board of County Commissioners,
and the Commissioners shall levy annually an amount sufficient to
pay such additional benefits. The sum granted to any applicant by
the County Commissioners (subject to the fifty dollars ($50.00)
limitation) shall be such that when added to whatever the applicant
is receiving from the Teachers' Retirement System, the total shall
not exceed one hundred and [twenty-five dollars ($125.00)] seventy-
five dollars ($175.00) per month. Provided further that the Board
of County Commissioners of Kent County may, in their discretion,
pay over to any retired public school teacher covered by this section
an additional monthly retirement benefit so long as the total retire-
ment benefit received by such public school teacher under this sub-
title and under this subsection shall not in the aggregate exceed two
thousand one hundred dollars [($2,000)] ($2,100) per annum; and
the Commissioners are authorized to levy annually an amount suffi-
cient to pay such additional benefits.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved April 28, 1970

CHAPTER 517
(House Bill 1295)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 23 (a)
and (b) of the Code of Public Local Laws of Charles County
(1969 Edition, being Article 9 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland), title "Charles County," subtitle "Circuit Court,"
relating to court reporters for the Circuit Court of Charles County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 23(a) and (b) of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Charles County (1969 Edition, being Article 9 of the Code of Public