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ments, on each pay day, and each such instalment shall 
be deducted by the Corporation from the pay of said 
subscriber and paid into the Pension Fund. In the 
event that the salary of any subscribing employee shall 
be reduced, he or she may, nevertheless, contribute to 
the said Pension Fund at the same rate as before such 
reduction, and, in that case, upon retirement, he or she 
shall be entitled to the same gratuity or pension as he 
or she would have enjoyed if such reduction had not 
taken place. 
§ 5. In the event that leave of absence without pay gpsence 
shall be granted to a subscribing employee who shall without 
still remain in the service of the Corporation, the said pay 
subscribing employee shall continue to contribute to 
the said Pension Fund in monthly instalments a sum 
equal to that which he or she was contributing during 
the period immediately preceding the granting of such 
leave of absence, and thereupon, for the purposes 
herein set forth, the said employee shall be deemed to 
remain in the continuous service of the Corporation. 
A sum equal to that so contributed by such employee 
shall be contributed, in such a case, by the Corporation. 
§ 6. If the contributions of any subscribing employee non-pay- 
who remains in the service of the Corporation shall re- ment of 
main unpaid, for any reason, for a period of six months, contribu- 
the said subscribing employee shall no longer be en- #!"S 
titled to any of the benefits herein mentioned, and the 
amount of his or her contributions to said Pension 
Fund, with simple interest at the rate of three per cent. 
per annum, less his or her indebtedness to said Pen- 
sion Fund, shall be returned to him or her. 
§ 7. If at any time it shall appear that it is unneces- Reduction 
sary for the successful administration of the pension of contribu- 
plan herein set forth, or as the same hereafter may be tons 
modified or amended, to exact contributions from the 
