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service, is still in the service of the Corporation at the 

 time of his or her death, there shall be paid to the nearest 

 relative of such deceased employee, according to the order 

 of precedence enumerated in Section 19 of these rules, or, 

 if there be no surviving relative within the degree therein 

 specified, then to the beneficiary, if any, designated as 

 hereinafter prescribed, or, in default of such beneficiary, 

 to the personal representatives of such deceased, a grat- 

 uity in one payment of an amount to be determined as 

 follows, namely: 



After one year of continuous service, an amount equal 

 to 25 per cent, of his or her average annual salary during 

 the time when he or she was a subscribing employee, com- 

 puted on the basis of his or her contributions to the Pen- 

 sion Fund, with an increase of 2 per cent, of such average 

 annual salary for each additional year of service, after 

 the first year. 



§ 14. In the event that a subscribing employee who is 

 uot -in receipt of, or entitled to, a pension under any of 

 the other provisions of these rules, shall, by illness or 

 accident, be totally and permanently disabled, there shall 

 be paid to such employee a gratuity, in one payment, of an 

 amount equal to that which, under the provisions of these 

 rules, would have been paid to the widow or husband of 

 such subscribing employee, as the case may be, had such 

 employee died at the time when such total and permanent 

 disability arose ; provided, however, that no such gratuity 

 shall be paid, and no right to receive such gratuity shall 

 accrue, unless or until a resolution shall be adopted by the 

 concurrent votes of at least five of the members of the 

 Pension Board directing such payment. 



§ 15. The right of a subscribing employee to receive a 

 pension under any of the rules hereby adopted, is quali- 



