Ch. 459                             MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                  975

The board of trustees shall certify one-quarter of the amount so ascertained for
each year to the State Comptroller on or before the last day of December,
February, May and September. The Comptroller shall, on or before the first day
of January, March, June and October, draw a warrant or warrants on the State
Treasurer for the respective amounts due the Retirement System. On the receipt of
the warrant of the Comptroller, the State Treasurer shall immediately transfer to
the Retirement System the amounts due.

[(7 The board of trustees is hereby authorized and directed subject to the
annual appropriation of the necessary funds and in addition to those provided in
accordance with and in the same manner as that provided in subsections (1), (2),
(3), (4), (5), and (6), of this section, and subject to the conditions hereinafter
provided, to make a supplementary payment to any beneficiary who was retired
prior to July 1, 1971, in addition to the benefits provided in §53 of this article, on
the following basis:

(a)  Which, when added to the benefits provided pursuant to § 53 of this article
is not less than $2,000 per annum; provided, however, that the said beneficiary is
credited with 25 years of service, and provided that any beneficiary having less
than 25 years of creditable service shall have his supplemental payment reduced in
proportion to the ratio of the number of years of creditable service divided by 25,
and provided that no such reduction shall be made for any beneficiary who has
retired for disability prior to June 30, 1968, and

(b)  Which is computed pro rata on the basis of the following condensed table:

Beneficiaries
Receiving Under	Length of
53 of This Article	Service	Payments
$ 900	25 Years	$ 1100
1200	25 Years	900
1500	25 Years	825
1800	25 Years	750
2100	25 Years	675
2400	25 Years	600
2700	25 Years	525
3000	25 Years	450
3300	25 Years	375
3600	25 Years	300
3900	25 Years	225
4200	25 Years	150
4500	25 Years	75
4800	25 Years	0 and

(c)  Which pro rata computation is made by the use of the following formula:

$4800-b c.s.

------------x--------         

4                 25

In which formula "b" represents "benefits provided by § 53" and "c.s." represents
"years of creditable service," and

(d)  Provided that the retirement allowance used in calculating the supplementary
payment shall be the total benefits provided in § 53 of this article except that it
shall not be based on any optional benefit chosen by the beneficiary.