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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Police force.

SEC. 810. And be it enacted, That the said Board of

Commissioners be, and they are hereby authorized

and required, immediately on entering upon the du-

ties of their office, to appoint, enroll, and employ a

permanent police force for the city of Baltimore,

which they shall arm and equip as they may judge

Arm and equip

necessary under such rules and regulations as they

may from time 'to time prescribe, and the said board

shall have power to remove any police officer, officer

of police or detective, for the violation of any rule or

regulation which they may make and promulgate to

said police force, officers of police and detectives, said

force shall consist of one Marshal and one Deputy

Marshal of police for the City, one Captain, two

Officers

Lieutenants, two Turnkeys, and such number of Ser-

gents as said Board of Police in their judgment may

deem necessary for each police district in the city,

and five hundred men, which force may be in creased

at any time, if in the opinion of the board, the public

peace shall require, to any number, and for such pe-

riod of time they may think proper, by the employ-

ment of special policemen, who shall receive the sum

of two dollars and fifty cents per day for their services;

the period of appointment in the regular police force

shall be four years, unless sooner discharged for offi-

Term of service

cial misconduct, and whenever any officer of police,.

policeman or detective shall be appointed he shall

receive a commission, which shall date from the time

of his appointment, and shall hold good for four

years, unless sooner annulled by his dismissal from

the force; provided however, that if any officer of

police, policeman or detective, shall be incapacitated

from performing duty by reason of sickness or disa-

bility incurred in the line of his duty for six consecu-

tive mouths, he may at the expiration of that time be

dismissed from the force, provided further, however,

Sickness

that the said board shall have the power to dismiss

said officer of police, policeman or detective, before

that time if in their judgment they may deem it pro-

per; the qualifications for the position of officer of

police, policeman, or detective, shall be good moral

character, sobriety, citizenship of the State of Mary-

land, ability to read and write, physical strength and

courage ; no person who has been convicted of any fe-

lony shall be eligible to the position of officer of po-

lice, policeman, detective or special policeman ; the