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period as will equal his or her term of service. The Pension 
minimum pension to be paid to any such subscriber allowances 
shall be $25 per month. cont'd 
(e) A male subscribing employee who shall reach the 
age of sixty-five years, or a female subscribing em- 
ployee who shall reach the age of sixty years, and shall 
retire, in either case, after twenty-five years of con- 
tinuous service, shall be paid, upon retirement, an 
annual pension of fifty per cent. of his or her average 
annual salary for the last three years of his or her 
employment, computed on the basis of his or her con- 
tributions to the Pension Fund during such three years, 
with an increase of one per cent. for each additional 
year of service. Such pension shall be paid for life. 
The minimum pension to be paid to any such subscriber 
shall be $35 per month. 
(f) Any subscribing employee who shall retire after 
thirty years of continuous service, irrespective of his 
or her age, shall, upon such retirement, be paid an 
annual pension of fifty per cent. of his or her average 
annual salary for the last three years of his or her 
employment, computed on the basis of his or her 
| contributions to the Pension Fund during such three 
| years. Such pension shall be paid for life. The mini- 
mum pension, however, to be paid to any such sub- 
seriber shall be $35 per month. 
§ 17. A subscribing employee who, after fifteen Pension 
years of continuous service, shall be retired by the allowances 
Corporation by reason of illness or of the abolition im cases of 
of the position theretofore held by him or her, or, at mn | 
the expiration of the yearly or other term of service oe, after 
contracted for shall not be re-appointed, or shall be dis- 15 years of 
missed under any circumstances or for any cause (other service 
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, 
