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this section, as if such employees continued under the retirement
system. Provided, however, that Montgomery County shall provide
by ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation that upon transfer of an
employee the employers' and employees' contributions with credited
interest shall be transferred from the employees' retirement system
of Montgomery County to such other qualified retirement system.

(d) The board of library trustees may suspend or dismiss without
appeal any professional or clerical employee of any library established
or operating under the provisions of this subtitle, on the written
recommendation of the library director, for immorality, misconduct
in office, insubordination, incompetency, or wilful neglect of duty,
provided that the charges by stated in writing, and that the employee

be given an opportunity to be heard by the board upon not less than

ten days' notice; provided further that in all cases when the board is
not unanimous in its decision to suspend or dismiss, the right of
appeal shall lie to the State Superintendent of Schools.

176.

(a)     (1) "County" includes Baltimore City.

(2)    The population figures used in this section shall be those ob-
tained from the Federal decennial census and in the intervening years
from estimates prepared by the Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene as of July 1, of the year preceding the fiscal year.

(3)    "Taxable wealth" used in computing State aid herein shall be
the sums of "adjusted assessed valuation of real property"

and "net taxable income" as defined in Section 128(5) and (7) of

this Article THE ASSESSABLE PROPERTY IN EACH COUNTY
AS DETERMINED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF ASSESS-
MENTS AND TAXATION.

(4) "Expenditures in which the State shares" shall be the current
operating expenditures of approved public libraries participating in
the cooperative program under the provisions of this section within
the limits provided in subsection (c).

(5) The taxable wealth of each county and of the State as a whole
shall be divided by the population in each county and in the State as
a whole, respectively, to obtain the wealth per capita in each county
and in the State. The per capita wealth in each county shall be
divided by the per capita wealth in the State as a whole to obtain the
ratio of local wealth per capita to State wealth per capita. This ratio
shall be multiplied by 50 70 per cent to determine the local percentage
share. The State's percentage share shall be obtained by subtracting
the local percentage share from 100 percent. No participating county
shall receive less State aid than 30 20 percent of the cost of the pro-
gram in which the State shares. In making these computations the
average local population and assessment data for three preceding
years shall be used.

(b)    The State shall continue and fund, as provided in this sec-
tion, a local-State cooperative program, created as of July 1, 1963,
for the support and growth of public libraries.

(c)    For each county which elects to participate in the coopera-
tive program, there shall be provided annually for the purposes of
the minimum program for current expenditures of libraries from