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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Deficiency in
fund.

11. In case the amount derived from the different sources
mentioned and included in this section, and from the special
fund, without deducting charges for patrol services, police-
boat and new station houses, shall not be sufficient at any
time to enable the Board of Police Commissioners to pay in
full the salaries which have been or may hereafter be granted,
which said salaries shall at all times be a first charge on said
funds. It shall be the duty of the said board each year at
the time of making up the departmental estimate to prepare a
full and detailed statement of the assets of said special fund,
and the amount which is required to pay in full all such
salaries, and to present the same to the Mayor and City

How provided
for.

Council and the Board of Estimates, together with a state-
ment of the amount of money required to enable the said
Board of Police Commissioners to pay the said salaries in
full. It shall be the duty of the Mayor and City Council
and said Board of Estimates to make an appropriation suffi-
cient to provide for each deficiency, and the amount so
appropriated shall be included in the tax levy, and the Comp-
troller shall pay over the money to the treasurer of the special
fund.

May receive
bequests.

12. And the said Board of Police Commissioners, as trus-
tees of the special fund, is hereby authorized and empowered
to take and hold as trustees of such fund any and all gifts or
bequests which may be made to such fund.

Power to pay
to widow, etc.

776 D. The Board of Police Commissioners shall have
power in its discretion to pay to the widow of any member of
said police force within the limits of said City, who shall
have been killed while in the actual performance of duty, or
shall have died in consequence of injuries received while in
the discharge of duty, an allowance until she remarries. If
there be no widow, but a child or children, then pay to such
child or children whilst under the age of eighteen years a
sum such as parent would have been entitled to out of said
special fund.

776 E. Salaries granted under Chapter four hundred and
ninety-four of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,
passed at the January Session, eighteen hundred and ninety-
eight, and all other salaries granted by special Acts shall be
for the natural life of the retired or disabled officer, and shall
nut be revoked, repealed or diminished, except for causes
therein provided.

Physicians'
certificate
required.

766 F. No member of the police force, whether policeman,
officer of police, detective, clerk, turnkey or in any other