PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1641

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 745 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, entitled "City of Baltimore," sub-title "Police Com-
missioners," as the same was repealed and re-enacted by Chap-
ter 123 of the Acts of 1898, as repealed and re-enacted by
Chapter 425 of the Acts of 1900, as repealed and re-enacted by
Chapter 129 of the Acts of 1906, as repealed and re-enacted
by Chapter 234 of the Acts of 1908, be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments, and the following
additional section be added thereto, to be known and desig-
nated as section 745 1/2, so as to read as follows:

SEC. 745. The said Board of Police Commissioners are
authorized and required immediately on entering upon the
duties of their office to appoint, enroll and employ a permanent
police force for the City of Baltimore, which shall arm and
equip as they may judge necessary, under such rules and regu-
lations as they may from time to time prescribe, and the
said board shall have the power to remove any police officer or
officer of police, or any detective for the violation of any rule
or regulation which they may make and promulgate to the
said police force, officers of police or any detective; said police
force shall consist of one marshal and one deputy marshal of
police; and for each police district, one captain, two lieuten-
ants, two round sergeants, two turnkeys (who shall have the
rank of patrolman), and one clerk, and not more than three
signal and telephone operators at each station-house; two addi-
tional captains, one of whom shall be assigned to have charge
of the detective office, and one of whom shall be assigned to
have charge of the police patrol boats; six additional lieuten-
ants, one of whom shall be assigned to have charge of the
Bureau of Identification; one of whom shall be assigned to the
said police patrol boats; one of whom shall be assigned to
nave charge of the police department horses, wagons, motor
vehicles and stables; one of whom shall be the superintendent
of the police signal and telephone service; one of whom shall
be assigned to night duty at Police Headquarters; one of whom
shall be assigned to duty in the detective office, and detectives
not exceeding twenty-four, who shall not be allowed to follow
any business or profession, but who shall devote their entire
time to the discharge of their duties as detectives; such num-
ber of sergeants as the Board of Police Commissioners in their
judgment may deem necessary; one additional round ,sergeant,
who shall be assigned as assistant to the superintendent of
the Police Signal and Telephone Service, and one of whom
shall be an experienced machinist and shall be known as super-