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section hereof for more than four
Salary Deductions Provided.

section ! hereof for more than four
years.
Salary Deductions Provided.
Section provides for deductions
from the basic salary. pay or COM
pensation of each epploye to whom
the act applies of certain sums.
which shall be credited to special
fund known as the civil service re-
tirement and disability fund, which
Is by said act appropriated for the
payment OF the annuities provided
by the act.
Section 9 provides that every en-
ploye coming within the provisions
Of this act shall be deemed to con-
sent and agree to the deductions from
salary. pay or compensation as pro-
vided in section 8 hereof, and pay
ment, less such deductions, shall be a
full and complete discharge and ac-
quittance of all claims and demands
whatsoever for all regular services
rendered by such employe during the
period covered by such payment, ex-
cept the right to the benefits to
which he or she shall be entitled un-
der the provisions Of this act.
Deductions Returned.
Section IL provides that in the
case of any employe to whom this
act applies who shall become abso-
lutely separated from the service be-
lore becoming c1lSlDl LOT
on an annuity the total amount of
deductions of salary. pay or compen-
sation with accrued interest shall.
upon application, be returned to such
employe,' and that in case an em-
ploye shall die without having reach
, ed the retirement age or without
having established valid claim for
annuity the total amount of deduc-
tions, with accrued interest, shall be
paid to his legal representatives.
Section 13 provides that it shall
be the duty of the head of each ex-
ecutive department and the head of
each Independent establishment of the
government not within the jurisdiction
of any executive department to re-
port to the Civil Service Commission,
in such manner as said commission
may prescribe, the name and grade of
each employe to whom this act ap-
plies in or under said department or
establishment who shall be at any
time in nOn-pay status, showing the
dates such employe was in a non-pay
status and the amount of salary, pay,
or compensation lost by the employe
by reason Of such absence.
From a consideration of these pro-
visions 1t IL clear that under this act
deductions are to be made from the
salaries of all employees of the classes
enumerated in section 1. regardless Of
their age or length of service, for the
purpose Of maintaining a civil service
retirement and disability fund (sec-
ton 81; that all such employees who
have rendered fifteen years of service
are eligible for retirement on an an
nuity upon reaching the retirement
age (section -, or sooner in case OF
their disability (section 81; that in
case any such employe becomes abso-
lutely separated from the service
whatever the cause. before becoming
eligible for retirement on an annuity,
the total amount of deductions from
his salary. with accrued interest, shall
be paid to him or, in case of his death,
to his legal representatives (sec-
ton ID.
Only Doubt I'm Case.
1.-THE only doubt is whether or not
under section employees Of the
classes enumerated in section 1 who
have reached the age Of retirement
are automatically separated from the
service regardless OF their length Of
service. That section provides that
''all employees to whom the act ap-
arated from the service upon reach
ing the age Of retirement. In view
Of the fact that the words ''all en-
ployes to whom this act applies" are
in other sections clearly used in the
sense Of employees OF the classes
enumerated in section 1 regardless OF
age OF length of service. it would be
unreasonable to give these words as
used in section 6 q different meaning
particularly as one Of the primary
purposes OF the act. namely that Of
ridding the civil service of employees
whose efficiency has been impaired by
age, would be defeated IL such en-
ployes should be retained beyond the
retirement age until they had rem
dered fifteen years service.
Moreover, section states the sole
conditions under which an employe
may be retained in the service after
he has attained the age OF retirement