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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

established preliminary requirements for the examination or
position to which he applies; or who is phyically so dis-
abled as to be rendered unfit for his performance of the duties
of the position to which he seeks appointment or promotion;
or who is addicted to the habitual use of intoxicating bever-
ages to excess; or who has been guilty of a crime or of
infamous or notoriously disgraceful conduct; or who has been
dismissed from the public service for delinquency or miscon-
conduct; or who has intentionally made a false statement of
any material fact, or practiced, or attempted to practice, any
deception or fraud in his application, in his examination, or in
securing his eligibility or appointment.

Appointment,
promotion, re-
movals, etc.

745F. In the appointment, promotion, reduction in rank,
transfer or removal of any police officer or officers of police,
or any detective by the Board of Police Commisioners for
the City of Baltimore, and in their administration of the
Police Department of Baltimore City, ecclesiastical and party
ties shall not be regarded, so that the Police Department
of said city may be entirely out of the field of political and
religious differences, controversies and influences. The said
Board of Police Commissioners for the City of Baltimore shall
confirm or reject all nominations for appointment or promo-
tion of police officers, officers of police and detectives made to
it, hereinbefore provided by the Board of Police Examiners
of the City of Baltimore. The said Board of Police Commis-
sioners shall not confirm the nomination or make the
appointment or promotion of any police officer, officer of police
or detective, except the marshal of police and captain of

Graded Lists.

detectives, counsel and surgeons, whose name does not
appear upon the graded lists to be furnished said Board of
Police Commissioners by the said Board of Police Examiners
for the City of Baltimore. All police officers, officers of
police and detectives, secretaries, clerks and employees, other
ihan counsel and police surgeons, of the police department
of Baltimore City shall be retained on the force during good
behavior and efficiency by the said Board of Police Commis-
sioners of the City of Baltimore, and may be removed by the
said Board of Police Commissioners for official misconduct or
inefficiency, and then only after written charges preferred,
specifying the time, place and character of such misconduct
and inefficiency, and trial had before the Board of Police
Commissioners, after reasonable notice thereof.

Police Laws
continued in
force.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws now in force
relating to the Board of Police Commissioners of the City of
Baltimore and the Police Department of said city, not included