the rank of sergeant are provided to be departmental, and to such
promotions the Merit System shall not apply. All promotions above
the rank of sergeant must be made in accordance with the provisions
of the Merit System on competitive examination. Employees dis-
charged or resigned are not afterwards eligible for re-appointment.

The superintendent is authorized to organize and maintain a
training school for employees, which training may be made available
to any local unit within the State. He is also authorized to formulate
such rules and regulations for the administration of the Department
as may seem fit, and, to assign, re-assign and transfer employees
from one station to another.

The superintendent has power to establish and discontinue head-
quarters and stations in such localities as he may deem advisable.

The Act provides that the Department shall create and maintain
a Bureau of Identification and Statistics.

Provision is also made for the salaries, expenses and maintenance
of the Department, to be paid out of the gross income of the Depart-
ment. of Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, exclusive of revenue pro-
duced by fines and forfeitures, and exclusive of revenue arising from
commercial hiring truck license fees and commercial hiring franchise
truck fees.

The Act provides that the duties of the police employees are to
prevent and detect crime, to apprehend criminals, to enforce the
criminal and motor vehicles laws and to perform such other related
duties as may be imposed upon them by the Legislature, which
power shall be exercised in any and all parts of the State. With the
exception of the enforcement of the motor vehicle laws, police powers
shall not apply to Charles, Calvert, Howard and Montgomery Coun-
ties. It is further provided that the State Police shall not act within
the limits of any incorporated municipality which maintains a police
force, except under the following circumstances:

(1) When in pursuit of an offender or suspected offender;

(2) When in search of an offender or suspected offender
wanted for a crime committed outside of the limits of the
municipality, or when interviewing or seeking to interview a
witness or a supposed witness to such a crime;

(3) When requested to act by the chief executive officer
of the municipality in question or its chief police officer;

(4) When ordered by the Governor to act within the mu-
nicipality in question.

They are directed to cooperate and exchange information with any
other Department or authority with police forces, both within and
without the State and with Federal Police forces, toward the end of
achieving greater success in preventing and detecting crimes and
apprehending criminals.

The superintendent shall annually, within thirty days following the
close of the fiscal year of the Department, make a full financial and
operative report to the Governor showing the activities of the Depart-
ment.
The Act went into force and took effect after June 1, 1935.