A NEW PENSION BILL. 1 he Michigan Legislature Establishes a Retirement Fund. The Michigan Legislature last month passed a bill establishing a retirement fund for the public-school teachers of Detroit. On account of the pension legislation in this State, it will be of special interest to our readers. The act in its main provisions reads as follows: SECTION 1. The treasurer of the board of education is given power to hold all moneys belonging to the fund, and invest or pay out the same under the direction of the board of trustees hereinafter provided for. The fund shall consist of 1. All money, pay, compensation, or salary, or any part thereof, deducted or withheld from any teacher or teachers on Supplementary Reading. account of absence from duty, or any cause, in accordance with the provisions of the rules of the board of education. 2. All moneys received from donations, legacies, gifts, bequests, or otherwise, for or on account of such funds. 3. All such other moneys as may be obtained from miscellaneous sources or appropriated or raised thereof by approval of the common council and board of estimates. 4. All the percentages the said board shall deem reasonable and expedient to deduct from the salaries of the teachers in the public schools of said city, and which shall not exceed one per cent of of the salary of each teacher. 5. All interest or income derived from the above moneys. SECTION 2. The board of education, together with the superintendent of schools, and two representatives to be selected by the teachers of public schools under control of said board, shall form a board of trustees, a majority of whom shall determine the amount to be deducted from the salaries paid to teachers as aforesaid, and shall have charge of and administer said fund, and said board of trustees shall have power to invest the same as shall be deemed most beneficial to said fund, and shall have power to make payments from said fund of annuities granted in pursuance of this act, and shall from time to time make and establish such rules and regulations, by-laws and ordinances, for the administration of said fund as they shall deem best. On and after the passage of this act said board of education shall so amend its bylaws relating to the absence from duty of teachers as to provide that reasonable sums shall be deducted from the salaries of teachers on account of such absence from duty, and said sums shall be transferred to and become a part of said teachers' fund. Said board shall have the power to retire any teacher after said teacher has taught in said public schools during a period aggregating twenty-five years, and any teacher shall have the right to retire after having taught said period; provided, however, that threefifths of said term of service of twentyfive years shall have been rendered by said beneficiary within the limits of the municipality where said board of educa tion has jurisdiction. Any teacher so retired by said board, or who may retire voluntarily at the expiration of said period, shall be entitled to receive an annuity not to exceed the sum of four hundred dollars. The said board shall have the power, with the consent of any teacher, to continue to employ said teacher after the time when it can retire the said teacher as aforesaid. In computing said period of twenty-five years for the present teachers in said schools, they shall receive credit for the time they have heretofore taught in them, and said board may place upon the roll of retired teachers any who may have taught in said schools for thirty years. The president and secretary of said board of education shall once in three months certify to the treasurer of said board all amounts deducted from the salaries of teachers in accordance with the provisions of this act, which amounts as well as all other moneys contributed to said fund shall be set apart and held by the treasurer as a special fund hereinbefore specified, subject to the order of said board of education and superintendent of schools and two representatives as aforesaid, and same shall be paid out upon warrants signed by the president and secretary of said board of education. It shall be the duty of said board, at the time it is required by law to submit its estimates for each year to report with said estimates the condition of said fund. The Republicans of Utah nominated a woman-Mrs. McVicker-for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The Hahnemann Hospital College OF SAN FRANCISCO. Located at 115 Haight Street,'above Octavia FACULTY J. A. ALBERTSON, M. D., Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics. C. B. CURRIER, M. D., Dean, Emeritus Professor of Diseases of the Throat and Chest. hours: 11-12, 7-8 P.M. J. N. ECKEL, M. D., Emeritus Professor of Pedology. GEO. H. PALMER, M. D., Professor of Principles and Practice of Surgery. WM. BOERICKE, M. D., Registrar, Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. GEO. H. MARTIN, M. D, Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases and Clinical Medicine. H. C. FRENCH, A. M., M. D., Professor of Diseases and Surgery of the Eye and Ear. A. C. PETERSON, A. B, M. D., Professor of Diseases of Throat and Anatomy of Eye and Ear. SIDNEY WORTH, A B., M D., Professor of Obstetrics. JAMES W. WARD, M. D., Professor of Gynecology. J. E. LILIENTHAL. M. D., Professor of Pædology. E. R. BRYANT, M. D., Professor of Anatomy and Associate Professor of Surgery. C. L. TISDALE, M. D., Professor of Physiology. C. W. BRONSON, M. D., Professor of Microscopy and Histology. A. B. JORDAN, M. D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology. F. G. CANNEY, M. D., Associate Professor of Medical and Surgical Diseases of Women. GUY E. MANNING, M. D., Lecturer on Anatomy. A. P. VAN DUZER, ESQ., Professor of Medical Jurisprudence. W. N. LAMB, Demonstrator of Anatomy. R. A. LEET, Ph. G., Professor of Chemistry, Toxicology, and Urinalysis. Dean's Entrance Examinations will be held at the College September 30 and October 1, 1895, and at other times by special arrangement. The qualifications for matriculation and graduation are the same as are required by the oldest and most progressive of the Eastern colleges. A full four years' graded course of study is required for graduation. A preliminary examination, or high school certificate, or other evidence of a fair education, is required upon entrance. Due credit will be allowed to graduates and to students of other recognized colleges. Ample clinical advantages are provided for in a well attended Dispensary attached to the College. WM. BOERICKE, M. 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