944                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 375

CHAPTER 375.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Chapter
No. 299 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,
Session of 1927, and Chapter No. 307 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, Session of 1929, as said
Acts were edited by Horace E. Flack and incorporated in
Article 16 of the Public Local Laws of Maryland, as Sec-
tion 691-701, inclusive, so as to authorize the County Com-
missioners of Montgomery County to increase the number
of police officers to twenty-seven, to authorize the appoint-
ment and compensation of two additional sergeants and one
additional first class patrolman, to authorize the appoint-
ment and provide for the compensation of four park police-
men, and the establishment of a Bureau of Criminal Identi-
fication, and to provide for the levying of the cost thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Chapter No. 299 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland, Session of 1927, entitled "An Act to
repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Chapter 259 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, Session of 1922,
entitled 'An Act to authorize, empower and direct the County
Commissioners of Montgomery County to appoint three or
more, not exceeding six additional constables for Montgomery
County at large on the first Tuesday of July in the year 1922
for a term of two years from the date of the appointment, and
'to provide rules and regulations governing the duties of said
^constables and provide for their compensation and the ex-
penses of equipment, said constables to be known and desig-
nated as "Montgomery County Police. " So as to provide for
an increase in the number and compensation of the members
of said force, to relieve them from the necessity of giving bond
and to provide for the establishment of certain stations, ' and
Chapter No. 307 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
. Maryland, Session of 1929, 'An Act to repeal and re-enact,
with amendments, Section 3 of Chapter 299 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, Session of 1927, entitled "An
Act to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Chapter 259 of
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, Session of
1922, entitled "An act to authorize, empower and direct the
County Commissioners of Montgomery County to appoint three
or more, not exceeding six additional constables for Mont-
gomery County at large on the first Tuesday of July in the