1102 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 694]

grand jury of Dorchester county, or by the judges of the cir-
cuit court for Dorchester county.

60G. No officer of police or policeman shall be allowed to
receive any money as a gratuity or extra compensation for any
services he may render, without the consent of the said board;
and all such moneys as any officer of police or policeman may
be so permitted to receive shall be paid over to the said board,
and together with the proceeds of all fines, forfeitures, penal-
ties and unclaimed property which may come into the posses-
sion of the said board, or be recovered by them under the pro-
visions of this sub-division of this article, or any other law,
shall form part of a fund which the board shall pay to "the
commissioners of Cambridge to apply towards the allowances
of officers of police and policemen and their families, as herein-
before authorized, and for extra pay to such members of the
force as by gallantry and good conduct on extraordinary occa-
sions they may be judged to merit; and any officer of police or
policemen who shall directly or indirectly in violation of this
section, receive any moneys as a gratuity or extra compensation
and shall fail to deliver the same to the board for the pur-
poses hereinbefore provided, and shall apply the same to his
own use, shall be forthwith dismissed, and be forever inelegible
to any position on the force.

60n. It shall be the duty of every officer of police and every
policeman to report to the board, and deliver to them all prop-
erty seized or found by said officer of police or policeman,
immediately after the same shall have come into their posses-
sion, which property, with the date of delivery and description
of the same, and the name of the officer or policeman deposit-
ing the same shall be entered in a book by the secretary, to
be provided for that purpose; said secretary shall have the
custody of all such property and shall be held responsible for
the safe delivery of the same to the claimants, when ordered
to do so in writing by the said board, which order shall be his
voucher; and any officer, or policeman who shall fail or refuse
for a period of twenty-four hours to deposit all such property
as aforesaid, shall be subject to removal by the said board; and
every officer or policeman who shall wilfully refuse to return
all such property as aforesaid, or shall return the same to any
claimant, shall be forthwith dismissed from the force.

60I. The chief of police nor any policeman, nor anyone
acting for or under them, or any of them, shall release any
persons committed or confined in any of the station houses for
any felony or misdemeanor, but all such persons shall be released