1100 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 6.94]

said board an appeal to the commissioners of Cambridge, which
appeal shall be heard by the commissioners of Cambridge at
their next regular meeting, and the average fixed by the said
commissioners of Cambridge shall be final and substituted for
the average given to said applicant by said board of police
commissioners. If the board of police commissioners shall
appoint any person as a police officer who is above or below
the age mentioned in this section, or who is not on the eligible
list at the time of his appointment, the salary of such police
officer so appointed, shall be paid, for the term that he may
serve, by the members of the board of police commissioners who
voted for such appointment, and the minutes of the said board
of police commissioners must show who voted for and who voted
against the appointment of any police officer, but if said min-
utes do not show such vote, then all of the said police com-
missioners, together with the secretary shall be responsible for
the salary of such police officer, so illegally appointed, and such
salary shall be collected by the Commissioners of Cambridge
from said police commissioners by legal process if the said
police commissioners fail or refuse to pay within ten days after
demand is made by the commissioners of Cambridge.

60D. The said board of police commissioners are author-
ized and required, within ten days after the examination here-
inbefore provided for, to appoint, enroll and employ a perma-
nent police force for the City of Cambridge, the term of service
of any member of said police force so appointed shall begin
on the day of his appointment and shall continue during good
behaviour until said members shall have reached the age of
sixty years unless removed sooner for cause by the board of
police commissioners. The police commissioners shall arm and
equip such police force as they may judge necessary, under
such rules and regulations as they may from time to time pre-
scribe; and the said board shall have power to remove the chief
of police or any police officer for the violation of any rule and
regulation which they may make and promulgate to said police
force, said police force shall consist of one chief of police and
not more than four regular policemen; the pay of the chief of
police shall not be more than seventy dollars per month, and of
the policemen not more than fifty dollars per month, payable
monthly by the town treasurer from the general levy made for
the purpose of maintaining a police department, on the war-
rant of the president of the board of police commissioners. The
said police board may appoint any person as a policeman, with
all the powers of a regular policeman, to act as watchman and
preserve the peace at any church, place of amusement, railroad