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Pension Fund during such three years. Such pension 

 shall be paid for life. The minimum pension, however, 

 to be paid to any such subscriber shall be f 35 per month. 



§ 17. A subscribing employee who, after fifteen years 

 of continuous service, shall be retired by the Corporation 

 by reason of illness or of the abolition of the position 

 theretofore held by him or her, or, at the expiration of 

 the yearly or other term of service contracted for shall 

 not be re-appointed, or shall be dismissed under any 

 circumstances or for any cause (other than under the 

 circumstances or for the causes specified in section 15) 

 and who shall not be entitled to a pension under any 

 other provision herein contained, shall be entitled to a 

 pension, upon such retirement or dismissal, regardless of 

 his or her age, of an amount equal to that specified in 

 section 16, subdivision (a), if he or she shall have served 

 more than fifteen and less than twenty years, and of an 

 amount equal to that specified in section 16, subdivision 

 (c), if he or she shall have served more than twenty 

 and less than twenty-five years, and of an amount equal 

 to that specified in section 16, subdivision (e) if he or 

 she shall have served more than twenty-five years, for the 

 same term, in either of said cases, as is provided in said 

 subdivisions of said section. This section shall not apply 

 to the case of a subscribing employee who shall resign, 

 or voluntarily sever his or her relation as an employee 

 of the Corporation. 



§ 18. In the event of the death of a former subscribing 

 employee, who is in receipt of a pension, if such death 

 occurs within ten years after the payment of his or her 

 pension commenced, then, and not otherwise, there shall 

 be paid to the nearest relative of such deceased, in the 

 order of precedence specified in section 19 of these rules, 



