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ABSOLUTELY PURE
PHuSIONIuG TEACHERS.
The Proposed Bill Ready for
Presentation to the Legis-
latuTe.

The Teachers Association of Jersey City
having appointed a committee to draft a
bill for presentation to the Legislature to
establish pensions for old and disabled
teachers. the committee has completed its
labors, and the following is a full text of the
proposed BILL
THE PROPOSED BILL.
A supplement to al act entitled "An Act to
Establish a System OF Public Instruction. Gre
vision), approved March twenty seventh, one
Thousand eight hundred and seventy. four.
/. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey: That any
male teacher who shall have taught in any or
the public schools Of the State of New Jersey
during a period Of thirty years and shall have
attained the age of sixty years, shall, upon APP
plication of such teacher be retired by the
Board Of Education on a salary equal to one
half the annual salary received by such
applicant at the time of his making
such application; il such male teacher snail
have reached the age of sixty-fiye years,
the Board of Education shalllhave power to re-
tire him on oue-half pay. without his personal
application, any male teacher who shall have
served for a term of thirty years. and has at
tanned the aga of fifty years, and who shall
become physically or mentally incapacitated
for his employment, may be retired by the
Board of Education, and shall receive one-han
pay; any female teacher WHO shall have taught
in any OF the public schools in the State OF New
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shall. upon her personal application. be retired
by the Board of Education on a pension equal
to one-half OF the annual salary tuen received
by her; if SUCH teacher shall have reached the
age OF sixty years. the Board OF Education
shall have power to retire her on one-half pay
without her personal application; any sick
female teacher who shall have taught during a
period of twenty-five years, as aforesaid, and
attained the age of forty-ftve years, aud who
shall have become physically or mentally IN
capacitated for teaching, may be retired by the
Board of Education on one-half salary; pro
vided, however, that no pension for any teacher
retired under the provisioaso of this act shall De
less than five hundred dollars, and the Board OF
Education is hereby authorized. empowered aud
directed to fix the salary at tive hundred dol
lars where the half pay OF the teacher TO be
retired is less than said sum: the salary or
teachers under the provision+of this act shall be
paid during the natural life OF the person
so retired, aud said salary shall be provided for
and paid in the same manner as other school
teachers are. or may hereafter bs pow led for
and paid, and provided further. that this act
applies only to suoh male or femala teachers as
shall have served not less than twenty years AZ
Z. And be it enacted, That this act shall apply
to cities of the first and second class only.
g. And be it enacted, That all acts aud parts
of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby re-
peaied.
effect Immediately.
AN AMENDMENT.
An amendment, however, will be added
to the bill before it is put into the proper
hands. That amendment is to institute the
New York system Of securing moneys to the
pension fund derived from the deductions
from teachers salaries, the idea being that
these SURPRISES shall fail back into the gen
eral fund. None of the Teachers Com
mfttee expects that anything will be done IN
the matter of the bill at least this session.
One of them even is pessimistie enough to
say that it will be at least three years before
the bill goes through.