acter, sobriety, citizenship of the United States,
ability to read and write, and physical strength
and courage, no person who has been convicted
and sentenced to the penitentiary shall be eligible
to the position of officer of police, policemen, de-
tective, or special policeman; the pay of an ordi-
nary policeman shall—eighteen dollars per week,
payable semi-monthly, and in case the Board shall
appoint detective policemen, and they are hereby
authorized and empowered to do so if they shall
think fit to the number of ten, said detectives
shall receive each the sum of twenty dollars per
week, payable semi-monthly, and shall not be
allowed to follow any business or profession, but
shall devote their whole time to the discharge of
their duty as detectives; the officers of police shall
be paid semi-monthly and their pay shall be as
follows : the Marshall shall receive two thousand
dollars per annum, the Deputy Marshal shall re-
ceive fifteen hundred dollars per annum, each
Captain twenty-two dollars per week, each Lieu-
tenant twenty dollars per week, each Sergeant
nineteen dollars per week, and each Turnkey fif-
teen dollars per week, the pay herein provided for
the officers of police, policemen, and detectives
shall continue until the tenth day of March,
eighteen hundred and sixty-eighth, and until a
change shall be made by the Act of the General
Assembly.

Shall ap-
point Justices
of the Peace.

Sec. 811. The said Board of Police Commis-
sioners shall have the power, and it shall be their
duty, from time to time, to select and employ from
among the duty appointed and qualified Justices
of the Peace for the city of Baltimore, one Justice
to sit at each station house for the hearing of such
charges as may be brought against such persons as
may be arrested and carried to said station houses,
and shall have full power to pay to said Justices
such reasonable compensation as they, the said
Board, may think proper, and to remove and

Proviso.

change the said Justices at their pleasure; pro-
vided, that nothing in this section shall be so con-
strued as to prohibit the said Justices from re-
covering from the parties so arrested and tried,
such fees as they may he bylaw entitled to receive
for their services, and it shall be the duty of the