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23 For ilif purpose of ascertaining the term of pasl 

 service of an j person who shall be in the permanent sen 



of the Corporation when these rules take effect 

 and wlin shall become a subscribing employee, the entire 

 period prior to thai date during which such person re- 

 ceived pay from the Corporation, but after, in the case of 

 a male employee, lie had attained the age <>f twenty-one 



a, or, of a female, the age of eighteen years, shall be 

 taken into consideration. As applied t<» the period after 

 these rules take effect, the wonls continuous service, or 

 other similar words, as used in these rules, shall be con- 

 strued as meaning that period for which, after becom- 

 ing a subscriber, and after the age of twenty-one years, 

 in the ease <»f males, and of eighteen years in the case 

 of females, a subscribing employee shall have remained 

 in the service of the Corporation, and shall have paid 

 his or her contributions to said Pension Fund without 

 b greater continuous break in his or her service, than one 

 year, ami provided that, upon returning to the service 

 after any such break in the continuity thereof, the said 

 subscriber shall have paid i«» the pension Fund a con- 

 tribution of such amount as shall he deemed equitable by 

 the Pension Board. 



_• i. Subscribing employees who have left the service 



f<>r less than one year and who have omitted upon their 



return to the service i<» make such payments t<> the Pen- 

 sion Fund as have been required nnder the last preceding 

 section and subscribing employees who have h-ti the serv- 

 ice f«>r more than one year and then return, shall be 

 deemed nen employ 



To guard against such inconveniences or in- 

 justice as might be caused bj tin- strict application of 

 these rules to tin* rirenmstances of Rome unusual i 



