JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

imprisonment for not less than ten days, nor more than thirty
days, or by both such fine and imprisonment for the first
offense, and by a fine of one hundred dollars or imprisonment
for three months, or both such fine and imprisonment for each
subsequent offense.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of
laws inconsistent with this Act be and the same are hereby
repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1900.

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CHAPTER 533.
AN ACT to repeal Sections 765, 766, 767 and 768 of Article
4, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, as
repealed and re-enacted by the Act of eighteen hundred and
ninety-eighty, Chapter one hundred and twenty-three, and
to re-enact the same, with amendments.

869

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 765, 766, 767 and 768 of Article 4, of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, as repealed and
re-enacted by the Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
Chapter one hundred and twenty-three, be and the same are
hereby repealed and re-enacted to read as follows:

Police
Commission'rs
of Balto. City.

Sec. 765. The Board of Police Commissioners of Baltimore
shall appoint two suitable women as matrons at each of the
station-houses in said city, one for day and the other for
night service, and one suitable woman as superintendent of
matrons for Baltimore City, and two additional suitable
women as substitute matrons, and shall provide a furnished
room at each of said station-houses for them.

Shall appoint
matrons and
superin-
tendent of
matrons.

Sec. 766. No woman shall be appointed as a matron or
superintendent of matrons or substitute matron as aforesaid
by the board unless she shall be recommended to said board,
within three months preceding her appointment, by at least
twenty women in good standing in said city, in writing, as a
suitable person for the position, and the said matrons and

Recommenda-
tions required.

superintendent of matrons and substitute matrons shall be
appointed to serve for four years, subject to removal for
cause after a hearing by the said board, which is hereby vested
with jurisdiction in the premises; provided, however, that
said substitute matrons shall perform the duties of matrons

Terms of
service.