1642 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 847]

intendeut of machinery, who shall have charge of the mechan-
ical care and repair of the motor vehicles of the Police Depart-
ment, respectively, and seven hundred and ninety patrolmen,
to be graded as provided in section 745 1/2 of this act; provided,
however, that for promotion to lieutenant to be assigned to the
detective office, only members of the detective force shall be
eligible. The said police force may be increased at any time
if in the opinion of the said board the public peace shall
so require, to any number and for such periods of time as they
may think proper by the appointment of special policemen, who
shall receive the sum of $2.50 per day for their services. The
members of the police force shall receive the following salaries,
payable every two weeks: The marshal of police shall receive
thirty-four hundred dollars per annum; the deputy marshal
of police, twenty-eight hundred dollars per annum; the captain
assigned to have charge of the detective office shall receive fifty
dollars per week, and all other captains shall each receive forty
dollars per week; the lieutenant assigned to have charge of
the Bureau of Identification shall receive thirty-five dollars
per week, and all other lieutenants shall each receive thirty
dollars per week; each round sergeant and detective, twenty-
five dollars per week; each sergeant, twenty-two dollars per
week; each turnkey, twenty dollars per week; each patrolman,
twenty dollars per week, except as provided in section 745 1/2
of this act; each station-house clerk shall receive twenty-two
dollars per week, and each signal and telephone operator shall
receive sixteen dollars per week; provided, further, however,
that whenever it may be deemed necessary by the said board
to assign patrolmen to police headquarters for clerical or tech-
nical duty, such patrolmen while so assigned shall receive in
the discretion of the said board a salary of not less than
twenty nor more than twenty-two dollars per week; provided,
however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to
legislate out of office an police officer, detective or officer of
police now in the force or any clerk or any appointee or any
employee of the Board of Police Commissioners of Baltimore-
City.

SEC. 745 1/2. The patrolmen provided for in section 745
of this act shall hereafter be appointed by the Board of Police
Commissioners in the manner following: Said patrolmen shall
consist of three grades; all patrolmen who shall have served
for two years or more on said force shall be members of the
first grade and receive the salary of twenty dollars per week;
all patrolmen who shall have served on said force less than two
years and more than one year shall be members of the second.