PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 837

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 777 of Chapter 123 of the Acts of 1898,
title "City of Baltimore," sub-title "Police," as the same was
repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 391 of the Acts of 1910,
be and the same is hereby repealed! and re-enacted with amend-
ments, so as to read as follows:

777. In addition to the sums of money now authorized by
law to be paid out of the fund as above constituted and desig-
nated, the said Board of Police Commissioners are empowered
whenever, in their opinion, the efficiency of the service may
require it, to retire any officer of police, policeman, detective,
clerk or turnkey appointed by them; and the said Board of
Police Commissioners shall pay to such officers of police, police-
men, detective, clerk or turnkey so retired, in monthly instal-
ments, out of said fund, for life, a sum of money equal to one-
half the amount of money currently paid monthly to an officer
of police, policeman, detective, clerk or turnkey, as provided by
law; provided, however, he shall have served faithfully not less
than sixteen years as such officer of police, policeman, detective.
clerk or turnkey, or shall have been permanently disabled in the
discharge of his duty as such officer of police, policeman, detec-
tive, clerk or turnkey. In the event at any time of an increase
in the pay of officers of police, policeman, detective, clerk or
turnkey, every officer of police, policeman, detective, clerk or
turnkey who shall have been or shall subsequently be retired
by the said Board of Police Commissioners shall be entitled
to and the said Board of Police Commissioners shall pay to
him in the manner and at and for the length of time provided
in this section for the pay of the members of the police force
who shall be retired or shall have been retired, a sum equal to
one-half of the remuneration of the active members of the
police department holding the same rank or grade at the time
of their retirement, to the end and effect that every retired
officer of police ,policeman, etc., shall receive the same remunera-
tion as every other retired officer or police, policeman, etc., of
like grade or rank, and no less. The provisions of this section
shall extend to and include all members of the police force of
Baltimore City heretofore retired by the said Board of Police
Commissioners, including those members retired prior to Janu-
ary 1st, 1907, and the said Board of Police Commissioners shall
in all cases, before retiring any officer of police, policeman,
detective, clerk or turnkey, procure and file among their records
a certificate signed by a majority of the physicians appointed
by the Board of Police Commissioners as physicians of the
police department, that the person proposed to be retired has