The San Francisco call., 1897-11-21
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In 1893 there was law passed by the
State Legislature concerning the teachers
annuity fund of California. During the
pre-. .ent year an amendment TO this law
was carried, which reads as follows: IAN
act to amend an act entitled AN act TO
create and administer an annuity and re-
tirement fund of the teachers of the pub
lie schools Of California. 80
Under the provisions of this act all
those teachers throughout the State who
desired to be bound by the conditions
and avail themselves of the privileges of
this fund were obliged TO file notice with
the secretary OF the Board of Education
and Superintendent of Schools of the
counties in which they are residing on or
before the 26th of June, 1897. In the city
and county of San Francisco all of the
SAL teachers who responded contribute
regularly TO the fund, those in day
schools generally paying 81 per month
and those~in the night schools so cents
In addition to this there are two other
sources OF rev under the law. One
half of the money lost by eachers from
their salaries on account of absence from
dutie. occasioneG by sickness, ETC., Sc.
cures for the fund an income of at least
$4,000 per annum. A certain grocery firm
places coupons in certain articles of mer-
chandise. especially tea, coffee, Spices
etc. Every coupon contains a certain
| number OF points and each point counts
one mill. The funds receipts from the
latter source amounted TO $l65 81 during
the first month and $118 last month,
which means total of some $1,000 year.
The revenue of the fund is administered
by board, known as the Public School
Teachers Annuity and Retirement Fund
Com ission, of which the Mayor of San
Francisco is chairman, r. Fl. Webster
secretary and A c. Widber treasurer.
This commission is required to divide the
receipts into two parts, to be devoted to
the two divisions of the general fund.
Ssventy-fve per cent of the receipts goes
10 the annuity and retirement fund
and the other 25 per cent to the
permanent fund, which remains un-
touched until it amount IS to $50. 900. There
is at present $4,000 10 the credit of the an
nuity fund and about $1,000 to that of he
permanent. In addition to the above
duty the commission is authorized to re-
ceive and administer all donations and
bequests, which are placed to the credit Of
the permanent fund.
Application for retirement must be
made to the retirement committee, which
is annually elected by all those teachers
who have bound themselves to the opera
ton of the act. The following persons
were elected last April: Miss Agnes NJ.
Manning, president; Miss Frances Hodg
kinson, secretary; Thomas Mccarthy,
Miss A. F. Sprague and Sias A. White.
According to the law, all teachers en- JOY
ing the privileges of the fund must pay
into it a sum of money equal to that they
would contribute in the aggregate by paw
ing 81 every school month for thirty
years, which would amount to $3.50. They
may be re tired when, in the judgment of
the retirement committee, they have be-
come incapacitated for further school
work. When the names of the applicants
for retirement are successfully passed upon
by the committee they are. entitled to re-
ceive as many one tbirtieths of the maxi
mum annuity of $500 as the number of
years they have taught in the depart
ment II the fund should ever become ex.
hausted, or if the revenue proves INSULT
cient 10 pay the annuilies, then the teach
ers will receive a pro rata OF the whole
income.
This is the list of annuitants to date:
Mrs. NJ ary J. Cline, L. E. Ryder, Mrs. H
A. St. John, Mrs. NJ. H. CurrIer, Miss Cor
neia E. Campbell, Miss Victoria NJ. Rae
let Mrs. Josephine Gerichten, Miss Eliza
beth NJ. Molloy, Miss Mary Solomon, Miss
A. Nj. Dore and Mrs. Laura T. Hopkins.
Those annuitants who have served thirty
years in the department receive $50 per
month.
At the last meeting OF the Librarians
Association in San Francisco the subject
Of a copyright depository for the Pacific
Coast was brought up for discussion by
Librarian Herbert C. Nash of Stanford.
II seems that in England there are five
such epositories-one at the British
Museum in London and one each at OK
ford, Cam bridge, Edinburgh and Dublin.
In this country all authors are required TO
place two copies of their published works
in the Congressional Library at Washing
ton, but this is at present the only deposi-
tory of the kind in the United States.
The need of others can easily be seen. fcr
not only is the library OF Congress mac
cessibie TO so many thousands of readers,
but t ere is ALWAYS the danger OF loss
through fire of this vast number of cory
rights which it has taken years to accu-
mulate.
1t is, therefore, suggested that such
copyright repositories be established in a
number of cities in various parts of the
country, as, for instan ce, in Chicago, Dem
yer, New Orleans and in our own public
library here in San Francisco. Already
California's Representatives at Washing
ton have been interested in the matter.
Some may object to thus increasing the
may possibly be of the same deceptive