BALTIMORE CITY. 1209

ers, a reasonable length of time before the date of any examination, a
formal application, in which the applicant shall state under oath:

1st. His full name and residence.

2d. His age, the place and date of his birth.

3d. His health and physical capacity for the position to which he-
aspires.

4th- If an applicant for appointment, his business or employment,
and residence for at least the previous three years.

5th. Such other information as may reasonably be required touching
the applicant's merit and fitness for service on or promotion in the said
police force.

Blank forms for such applications shall be furnished by the said Board
of Police Examiners, without charge, to all persons requesting the same.
The applicant shall file with the said Board of Police Examiners, in con-
nection with his application, such certificates of citizens, physicians, pub-
lic officers or others having knowledge of the applicant, as the good of the
service may require. The said Board of Police' Examiners shall refuse-
to examine an applicant, or after an examination to certify an eligible
who is found to lack any of the established preliminary requirements for
the examination or position to which he applies; or who is physically so-
disabled as to be rendered unfit for his performance of the duties of the
position to which he seeks appointment or promotion; or who is addicted
to the habitual use of intoxicating beverages to excess; or who has been
guilty of a crime or of infamous or notoriously disgraceful conduct, or
who has been dismissed from the public service for delinquency or mis-
conduct, or who has intentionally made a false statement of any material
fact, or practiced, or attempted to practice, any deception or fraud in his
application, in his examination, or in securing his eligibility or appoint-
ment.

Keyser v. Upshur, 92 Md. 726. Upshur v. Hamilton, 95 Md. 568. Smith v.
Gaither, 144 Md. 484.

1900, ch. 16. 1922, ch. 507, sec. 745F.

745N. In the appointment, promotion, reduction in rank, transfer or
removal of any police officer or officers of police, or any detective by the
Police Commissioner for the City of Baltimore, and in his administration
of the Police Department of Baltimore City, ecclesiastical and party ties
shall not be regarded, so that the Police Department of said City may be
entirely out of the field of political and religious differences, controversies,
and influences. The said Police Commissioner for the City of Baltimore
shall confirm or reject all nominations for appointment or promotion of
police officers and officers of police made to him hereinbefore provided by
the Board of Police Examiners of the City of Baltimore. The said Police
Commissioner shall not confirm the nomination or make the appointment
or promotion of any police officer or officer of police, except the inspectors,
of police, detectives and surgeons, and the secretary to the Police Com-
missioner and his assistants, whose name does not appear upon the graded
lists to be furnished said Police Commissioner by the said Board of Police