The morning call., 1895-02-09

ers annuity and retirement fund in the
several cities and counties of the State.
In the main the bill is drawn upon the
SINE lines as the one which was intro
duced in the Legislature of 1898. By that
proposed act teachers were to have been
allowed to retire after twenty years of serv-
ice upon half pay up to a certain limit, and
also the main source of supply for the pay
ment of pensions was to come by direct
taxation. That bill, in spite of the efforts
of many teachers who were interested, was
defeated by small majority.
The present bill provides as follows
That the Superintendent of Public Schools
the County Treasurer and the chairman of
the Board of Supervisors of each county or
city and county, and their successors shall
constitute board of trustees of the school
teachers annuity and retirement fund;
the same board shall have charge of and
administer the said fund and order pay
ments therefrom, according to the pro-
visions of the act; also, whenever any
teacher shall have taught in the public
schools of the State for twenty years, said
teacher shall at his or her request
be retired by said board, and shall
fund of $45 month; if said teacher has
taught for twenty-five years he or she shall
be retired upon an annuity of $50 a month.
AS regards provisions for fund for the
payments, the money withheld from the
salaries of teachers during the preceding
month on account of absence from duty,
or for any cause, and ! per cent of the
amount due each teacher as salary for the
same time shall be placed to the credit of
the fund; also all donations and Iegacies
and the like shall be paid in. There
must also be placed to the credit Of the
fund per cent of all sums collected for
licenses of pawnbrokers, billiard hall
keepers, dealers in second hand goods and
junkstores, and one-fourth of all moneys
collected for the licensing of dogs.
The act will be binding upon all public
school teachers only who shall, within
ninety days after the act takes effect, sign
and deliver a contract by which they agree
to :'r a'nd by the proposed measure.
act as originally introduced an
OF. ,a.yce of revenue was per cent Of
H., ,ii cunt collected for licenses for the
aai Fl intoxicating liquors, but for obvious
reasons This was eliminated.
During all the time that the agitation in
favor of pensioning teachers has been 60
ing on, It's life and financial support has
proceeded from San Francisco. An organi-
cation embracing several hundred teachers
here and considerable number in Oakland
and elsewhere in the State has been kept
up. The affairs of the association have
been controlled by an executive committee,
and legislative bills have been framed by a
special committee of five of the executive
committee.
The ordinary expenses of the work have
been met by a tax of 10 cents a month on
all members, and in legislative seasons
special contributions have been asked.
Two years ago the committee that so nearly
put through the bill then presented came
home and presented an expense bill that
created deficiency and caused a call on
members for per cent OF their monthly
salaries.
This year the task of presenting the
measure to the legislative committees and
the legislators generally has been confided
to Mrs. Nettie r. Craven, principal of the
Mission Grammar School; Mrs. Bradley,
teacher of drawing in the Polytechnic
High School; Miss Murphy, principal OF
the Tehama- street Primary School; f. M.
Campbell of Oakland and Deputy Super
intendent Babcock of this city. The ladies
mentioned devoted several days to lobby
ing at Sacramento about the time the bill
was introduced.
Last week fat assessment of 80 cents
a member was levied on members OF the