Permanent 
disability 
Right to 
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in Section 19 of these rules, a gratuity in one payment 
of an amount to be determined as follows, namely: 
After one year of continuous service, an amount 
equal to twenty-five per cent. of his or her average 
annual salary during the time when he or she was a 
subscribing employee, computed on the basis of his or 
her contributions to the Pension Fund, with an increase 
of two 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 not 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 pay- 
ment, 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; pro- 
vided, 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 
qualified by the following proviso (which shall be 
deemed a part of each of the rules herein contained, 
regulating the granting of pensions), namely: that if 
such employee shall be convicted of a felony committed — 
while in the service of the Corporation, or shall be 
dismissed by the Corporation for dishonesty in his 
relations to the Corporation, the Trustees of the Cor- 
poration, upon recommendation of a resolution adopted 
by the votes of not less than six members of the Pension 
Board, may exclude the said employee from all rights 
