JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

land, Session eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, sub-title
"Miscellaneous Local Laws," sub-title "Police Commis-
sioners," sub-title "Special Fund," to follow Section seven
hundred and seventy-six, and to be known as Sections
776A, 776B, 776 C, 776D, 776E and 776F.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the following additional sections be added to the
Code of Public Local Laws, title "City of Baltimore," as
repealed and re-enacted by Chapter one hundred and twenty-
three of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, Ses-
sion eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, sub-title "Miscel-
laneous Local Laws," sub-title "Police Commissioners," sub-
title "Special Fund," to follow Section seven hundred and
seventy-six and to be known as Sections 776A, 776B, 776C,
776D, 776 E and 776 F.

Police
Commission'rs
Balto. City.
Special Fund.

776A. The Board of Police Commissioners of the City of
Baltimore and their successors shall be the trustees of the
special fund hereinafter mentioned, the treasurer of said
board shall be treasurer of the fund; he shall before entering
upon his duties as treasurer thereof execute and deliver to
said board a bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars,
to be approved by the Comptroller of the City of Bal-
timore, and conditioned for the faithful discharge of
his duties, and that he shall pay over and account
for all moneys and property which shall come to his
hands as such treasurer, the expense of such bond if
furnished by a corporation, to be paid out of the special
fund. Such trustees shall have charge of and administer
such funds, and from time to time invest the same, or any
part thereof, as they shall deem most beneficial to said fund,
and they are empowered to make all necessary contracts, and
take all necessary and proper actions and proceedings in the
premises, and to make payments from such fund of salaries
granted in pursuance of this Act, and also salaries now
charged on said fund, or any part thereof, by or under exist-

Shall be
trustees of.

Treasurer
shall execute
bond.

ing laws. The said trustees may and they are authorized
and empowered from time to time to establish such rules and
regulations for the disposition, investment, preservation and
administration of the special fund, as they may deem best.
They shall report in detail to the Mayor and City Council
annually in the month of October the condition of the special
fund, and the items of receipts and disbursements on account
of the same.

Disposition,
investment,
etc.