Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-01
SOL DER HFpI 0YHRT
PREFERENCE ASKED
FOR IN LEGISLATION

The United War Veterans. nation
Il organisation Of soldiers and sailors
III eli wars 81 the United States. with
headquarters at Kalispell, Montana.
has presented % the legislatures now
IN session In the various states. and
will present to the Maryland legis-
lature bill providing for preferences
ii public employments for all honor
ably discharged soldiers. sailors and
marines Of all warz The bill is as
follows
An act providing for preferences for
honorably discharged soldiers, sailors
and marines Of the United States and
providing penalties for violations
thereof.
Be enaced by the legislative as
sembly or the state
Section l. That ii every public de-
partment and upon all public works Id
this stale, and the several Giles ard
counties thereof. men who have been
honorably discharged from the AIRY
navy and marine corps az the United
States ia time Of war, AMI whu are cit
liens and residents IL this state, shall
be entitled to preference In appoint
nent, employment and promotion over
osher persons Of equal qualifications
and the person therein preferred shall
not be disqualified from holding any
position hereinbefore mentioned on
account Of age or BY reason OF any
physical disability providing such age
Of disability does not render him In
competent to perform properly the
dusies Of the position applied for. and
when such soldier, sailor or marine
shall apply for appointment or en-
ployment under this act, the officer.
board or person whose duty II Is or
may be to appoint or employ such per-
sons to Ill such position or place
shall. before appointing or employing
anyone to I'll such position or place
make investigation as ID the qualifica-
fions Of such soldier sailor or marine
for such place or position. and II he
Is man OF good moral character and
can perform the duties of said posi-
ton so applied for BY him. as herein
before provided. said officer, board Of
person shall appoint said soldier, sail
or or marine to such position. place
or employment "A refusal 70 allow
the preference provided for In this
and the next succeeding section 10 any
honorably discharged soldier. sailor
or marine, or a reduction of his com
pensation intended to bring shout his
resignation, shall be deemed d lnisde-
meanor, and such honorably dis
charged soldier, sailor or marine shall
have q right OF action thereof In any
court OF competent jurisdiction for
damages and also remedy for man
damus for righting the wrong.
Section q Every such soldier, sailor
or marine referred to in the preceding
section who shall have been employ
ed for continuous period Of ten
years Or more In any such position III
this state, or Of the several cities and
counties thereof, and who shall have
reached the age Of seventy years, upon
his own request, or II employed III
manual labor, upon being incapacited
for performing manual labor. shall be
retired from his employment by this
state, and the several cities and coun-
ties thereof, and thereafter and during
his life. the state department and the
several cities and counties which en-
pIoyed him at the time OF his retire
iment, shall pay to him IN the same
manner that the salary and wages OF
! his former position we're cust0mariIy
paid to him. an annual sum equal In
amount to one-half the salary or
wages paid 10 him In the last year oi
his employment: provided. however
that the amount so to be paid to such
retired veteran shall not exceed the
sum OF one thousand dollars per an.
mum
The foregoing sections are taken
from the laws OF the state Of New
| York Similar laws allowing prefer.
ences are found in Iowa. Ohio. Cali.
fornia, Illinois, Wisconsin, washing.
ton. and other states.
The preference laws now Iii force Ii
various states apply only to Civil wal
and Spanish war veterans, and Il Ii
planned to have them amended to in.
clude those OF the world war
URGES ABANDONMENT
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