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shall have paid to the Pension Fund a contribution of 
such amount as shall be deemed equitable by the 
Pension Board. 
§ 24. Subscribing employees who leave the service Reinstate- 
for less than one year and who omit upon their return ment 
to the service to make such payments to the Pension 
Fund as have been required under the last preceding 
section, and subscribing employees who leave the serv- 
ice for more than one year and then return, shall be 
deemed new employees. 
§ 25. To guard against such inconveniences or in- Rights of 
justice as might be caused by the strict application of Trustees 
these rules to the circumstances of some unusual case, 
and to provide for meritorious cases not embraced 
within these rules, it is hereby understood and agreed 
that the Trustees of the Corporation, upon recommen- 
dation of a resolution of the Pension Board adopted by 
the votes of not less than six of its members: 
First: May exclude any employee of the Corporation 
from the right to become a subscriber, or permit any 
employee to become a subscriber. 
: Second: May terminate the subscription of any sub- 
scribing employee who shall not, at the time, be entitled 
to any gratuity or pension hereunder, upon the repay- 
ment to such employee of his or her subscriptions to 
said fund, with simple interest at the rate of three 
per cent. per annum. Thereupon such employee shall 
cease to be entitled to any gratuity or pension under 
these rules. 
Third: May grant suitable gratuities or pensions to 
any subscribing employee, or members of his or her 
family, or persons dependent upon him or her, even 
though no provision is made therefor by these rules; or, 
