Gratuity 
paid to 
relatives 
or bene- 
ficiary 
12 
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; 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; of 
an amount equal to that specified in section 16, sub- 
division (e), if he or she shall have served more than 
twenty-five years, for the same term, in either of said 
cases, as 1s 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 subscrib- 
ing 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 beneficiary or beneficiaries 
of such employee, designated as herein elsewhere pre- 
scribed, or in default of such beneficiary or benefici- 
aries, to the nearest relative of such deceased, in the 
order of precedence specified in Section 19 of these 
rules, a gratuity in one payment of a percentage of 
his or her average annual salary for the entire period 
when he or she was a subscribing employee, computed 
upon the basis of his or her contributions to the Pen- 
sion Fund, as shown by the following table: 
If death occurs during the first pension year 100% 
< second ‘‘ “<a 
<¢ a4 ce 4 ce third cc a4 80% 
a4 cc (a4 a4 ce fourth a4 cc 10% 
a4 a4 cé 4 cc fifth a4 cc 60% 
ce a4 a4 a4 a4 sixth cc a4 50% 
cc a4 a4 ce a4 seventh a4 ce 40% 
a4 cc ¢¢ a4 a4 eighth ce iz 4 30% 
cé c¢ a 4 4 4 ninth cc ce 20% 
c¢ ce «ce ce ce tenth ce ce 10% 
