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payable to such participating member under any retirement system sup-
ported wholly or in part by the State, but such participating member may
elect at any time prior to his retirement to have his credit for service in
the General Assembly, and contributions therefor, transferred to any other
retirement system supported wholly or in part by the State in which he is
or may become enrolled, provided that such participating member shall not
receive credit for more than one year of service for any one calendar year.

(m) In lieu of the normal pension commencing at age sixty (60) or
the actuarially equivalent early pension, any participating member, upon
making application therefor to the System, shall become entitled at any
time after termination of his service but prior to the commencement of
either an early or a normal pension, to be paid the amount of his accumu-
lated contributions plus interest on each year's contribution at the rate
then being paid by the System. In the event a participating member dies
before he shall have received any pension payments without leaving a
surviving spouse who would then or thereafter be entitled to receive a
spouse's pension under Paragraph (i) of this Item 2, the designated bene-
ficiary of such member or, if none, his estate shall then become entitled to
be paid the amount of the accumulated contributions of such participating
member plus interest on each year's contribution at the rate then being
paid by the System.

(n) A former member of the General Assembly not serving in that
body on or after January 13, 1971, or who does not elect to become a
participating member under this pension plan shall be paid whatever
pension benefits, if any, he may be entitled to receive under the prior
pension plan whether or not such benefits are presently being paid to such
member.

FURTHER RESOLVED, that all references to the masculine gender
in this resolution shall include the feminine whenever appropriate.

FURTHER RESOLVED, that Sections 1, 2 and 38(1) of Article 40
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Replacement Volume and 1970
Cumulative Supplement), title "General Assembly," subtitles "Mileage, Pay
and Stationery," and "Legislative Council," be and they are hereby
repealed.

FURTHER RESOLVED, that all desk orders, journal entries, regula-
tions, rules or resolutions and any other provisions of law in any way
inconsistent with the express or implied language of Items 1 and 2 of this
resolution relating to compensation and allowances in any form for mem-
bers of the General Assembly of Maryland be and they are hereby repealed.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto subscribed our names
on this 25th day of January, 1971.

Williford Gragg, Chairman

Joseph P. Brennan

John E. Chubb

Edward J. Courtney

H. Vernon Eney                           

Mrs. Elizabeth Murphy Moss

Alfred L. Scanlan

Edward G. Uhl

George S. Wills                         .