1198 ARTICLE 4.
1904, ch. 338.
739C. In developing and improving any land acquired as aforesaid
for park purposes, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall be
free from the restrictions created by Chapter 453 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, approved April 8, 1902.
The Act of 1902, ch. 453, re-enacted section 840 of the City Charter.
POLICE COMMISSIONER.
Organization of Force.
P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 806. 1860, ch. 7. 1867, ch. 367. 1874, ch. 2. 1900, ch. 15.
P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 722. 1920. ch. 559.
740. There shall be appointed by the Governor immediately on the
going into effect of this section, and every six years thereafter, one dis-
creet person, resident or engaged in business in the City of Baltimore
for three consecutive years next preceding the day of his appointment,
who shall be known as the Police Commissioner for the City of Baltimore,
and whose term- of office shall continue for six years and until his suc-
cessor is appointed and qualified. He shall be subject to removal by the
Governor for official misconduct or incompetency in the manner provided
by law in the case of civil officers; he shall receive a salary of ten thousand
dollars per annum, payable quarterly. The said Commissioner shall not
be eligible to an elective or appointed office during the term for which he
was appointed. Before entering upon the duties of his office, the Com-
missioner shall enter into bond to the State of Maryland, with one or
more sureties, in the penalty of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the
faithful discharge of his duties as such Commissioner; said bond to be
approved by the Judge of the Superior 'Court of the City of Baltimore,
and to be kept and recorded by the clerk of said Court, in the office thereof,
together with the certificate of appointment as aforesaid, and shall also
take and subscribe before the said Judge of the Superior Court, or the
clerk thereof, the oath or affirmation prescribed by the sixth section of
the first article of the Constitution, and the further oath or affirmation,
that in every appointment, promotion, reduction in rank or removal to
be made by him, to, in or from the police force created and organized
under this subdivision of this Article, he will in no case, and under no
pretext, appoint, promote, reduce in rank or remove any policeman or
officer of police, or detective, or any other person under him, for or on
account of the political opinions or affiliations of such policeman, officer,
detective or other person or for any other cause or reason than the fitness
or unfitness of such person, in the best judgment of said Commissioner for
the place to which he shall be appointed, or from which he shall be re-
moved, and the said oath or affirmation shall be recorded and preserved
among the records of said Court.
The said Police Commissioner shall have and exercise all the powers
exercised by the Board of Police Commissioners of Baltimore City and
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