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ties. Any of said Board of Police Examiners shall be subject to removal
by the Governor for official misconduct or incompetency, in the manner-
provided by law in case of other civil officers. Each of said Board of
Police Examiners shall be appointed for two years, and they shall hold
office until their respective successors are appointed and qualified. Each
of said Board of Police Examiners shall receive a salary of one thousand
two hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly. None of said Board
of Police Examiners shall be eligible to an elective or appointive office,,
except under the militia laws of the State; as the term of any Examiner
shall expire as designated above, his successor shall be appointed for two-
years, subject to the foregoing provisions and limitations. Before enter-
ing upon the duties of his office, each member of said Board of Police
Examiners shall take and subscribe before the Judge of the Superior
Court of the City of Baltimore, or the Clerk thereof, the oath or affirma-
tion prescribed by the sixth section of the first Article of the Constitution,
and the further oath or affirmation that in every nomination to the Board
of Police Commissioners for Baltimore City of any person for appoint-
ment as police officer, officer of police or detective, for promotion, they
shall in no case and under no pretext make such nomination for or on
account of the religion or political opinions or affiliations of the person
nominated by them, or for any other cause or reason than the fitness of
such person in the best judgment of said Board of Police Examiners for
the place to which he shall be nominated; and said oath or affirmation
shall be recorded and preserved among the records of said Court.

Keyser v. Upshur, 92 Md. 728. Upshur v. Ward, 94 Md. 778. Upshur v. Hamilton,.
65 Md. 561.

1900, ch. 16.

745J. The said Board of Police Examiners may elect one of its mem-
bers to be president, and may employ a secretary, who shall hold office
during the pleasure of the Board. The secretary shall receive a salary
of $1,200 per annum, payable monthly, and his duties shall be such as.
may be prescribed from time to time by said Board of Police Examiners.
Keyser v. Upshur, 92 Md. 726.

1900, ch. 16.

745K. It shall be the duty of the flavor and City Council of Balti-
more to cause suitable rooms and accommodations to be assigned and pro-
vided, and to be furnished, heated and lighted, in the City of Baltimore
for carrying on the work and examination of the said Board of Police
Examiners; and said Board may order the necessary stationery, postage
stamps, official seals and other articles to be supplied, and the necessary
printing to be done for its official use.

Keyser v. Upshur, 92 Md. 726.

1900, ch. 16. 1910, ch. 5-17. 1922, ch. 507, sec. 745D.

745L. It shall be the duty of the said Board of Police Examiners, and
they are hereby authorized and empowered, to prescribe, amend and en-
force definite and uniform rules and regulations for carrying this act