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Term of office.
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Constitution. As the term of office of any commissioner shall
expire, as designated above, his successor shall be appointed
for two years, subject to the foregoing provisions and limita-
tions. Before entering upon the duties of his office, each
commissioner shall enter into bond to the State of Maryland,
with one or more sureties, in the penalty of ten thousand
dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties as
such commissioner; said bond to be approved by the Judge
of the Superior Court of the City of Baltimore, and to be
kept and recorded by the clerk of said court, in the office
thereof, together with the certificate of appointment as afore-
said, and shall also take and subscribe before the said judge
of the Superior Court, or the clerk thereof, the oath or
affirmation prescribed by the sixth section of the first Article
of the Constitution, and the further oath or affirmation, that
in every appointment, promotion, reduction in rank or removal
to be made by them to, in or from the police force created
and organized under this subdivision of this Article, they
will in no case, and under no pretext, appoint, promote,
reduce in rank or remove any policeman or officer of police,
or detective, or any other person under them, for or on
account of the political opinions or affiliations of such police-
man, officer, detective or other person, or for any other cause
or reason than the fitness or unfitness of such person, in the
best judgment of said commissioners, for the place to which
he shall be appointed or from which he shall be removed, and
the said oath or affirmation shall be recorded and preserved
among the records of said court.
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Duties,
appointments,
etc.
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741. The Board of Police Commissioners, on entering upon
their duties as such, shall select one of their number who shall
be the president, and one of their number who shall be the
treasurer thereof; all votes on appointments into the police
force, and on promotions, reductions in rank therein, and dis-
missals of officers therefrom, and all votes awarding contracts
or for the expenditures of any money shall be by a yea and
nay vote, which shall be plainly recorded in the minute book
of the Board of Police Commissioners, showing how each
member of the Board has voted on each of said questions.
This minute book shall at all times be open under reasonable
regulations to the inspection of the public. In case of the
death, resignation, removal or disqualification of any com-
missioner, the Governor shall appoint a successor for the re-
mainder of the term so vacated, subject to the provisions of
the foregoing section, and of the Constitution of the State;
provided, that the present Board of Police Commissioners
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