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grade and receive the salary of seventeen dollars and fifty cents
per week; all patrolmen who shall have served on the said force
for less than one year shall be members of the third grade and
receive the salary of. fifteen dollars per week. Third grade
patrolmen shall be entitled to be advanced to the second grade
at the expiration of the first year, without competitive exam-
ination, if they shall have performed their duties satisfactory.
The second grade patrolmen shall be entitled to be advanced at
the expiration of two years to the first grade, without com-
petitive examination, if their services in the second grade have
been satisfactory. Patrolmen of the third and second grades
to be known as probation officers and they shall not be advanced
as aforesaid except after examination by said Board of Police
Commissioners as to their records, efficiency and conduct, and
unless they are certified to said board by the police physicians
as physically qualified to continue to discharge the duties of a
patrolman.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of
laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, otherwise
to remain in full force and effect.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 15, 1912.

CHAPTER 848.

AN ACT to pay Edward T. Brisco, of Baltimore City, Mary-
land, a pension as retired school teacher.
(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 849.

AN ACT to provide funds and erect and equip a high school
building in Calvert county.

(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 850.

AN ACT to repeal Chapter 540 of the Acts of the General As-
sembly of Maryland of 1908, title "Harford County," sub-
title "An Act to provide for the appropriation by the Mayor
and City Council of the City of Havre de Grace of a sum of
money toward the maintenance of a bridge for foot passengers