JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 621

years, and one for six years to serve without com-
pensation as a Board of Police Commissioners for
said city, and every two years thereafter, he shall
appoint one person for six years to serve in said
board, and said persons so appointed shall serve for
the time for which they shall be appointed, or until
their successors be appointed, unless they or any of
them shall sooner be removed for cause by the Gov-
ernor.
SUB-SECTION B. The said Board of Police Com-
missioners shall appoint for the City of Annapolis,	Appoint Police
one chief of police and four police officers, on the	officers.
first Monday of June, in each and every year, or as
soon thereafter as practicable, who shall hold office
for the term of one year from the date of their ap-
pointment, or until their successoi's are duly ap-
pointed and qualified according to law, unless sooner
removed for cause ; and said board may appoint, if
occasion require, special policemen not exceeding in
cost, at two dollars and fifty cents per day for each
special policemen, six hundred dollars in any one
year.
SUB-SECTION C. The chief of police, before enter- ing upon the discharge of his office, shall give bond	Give bond
unto the State of Maryland, to be approved by the
Board of Police Commissioners of said city, in the
penal sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned for
the faithful performance of the duties of his office,
and of the trust now reposed or which may hereafter
be reposed in him by law ; and shall also take the
oath prescribed in the charter of said city for alder-
men, and as compensation for his services shall re-
ceive the sum of seventy dollars per month ; each
police officer shall also bond as above, in the penal
sum of four hundred dollars, and as compensation	Give bond
for his services shall receive the sum of sixty dollars
per month; said chief, officers and special police to
be paid by an order of the President of the Board of
Police Commissioners, upon the treasurer or financial
officer of the city, which said treasurer and his bond
is hereby made liable for such orders to the extent
of three hundred and ten dollars per month for the
regular police, and such orders for special police, not
exceeding fifty dollars per month, if he shall receive
sufficient notice of the sum required; and said treas-