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authority of this Act shall be the same as that provided for patrolmen
in Section 745 of this Article, including the additional compensation for
service, the said salary to be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Bal-
timore, and shall be included in the annual estimate of expenses by said
Police Commissioner certified to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

1912, ch. 647. 1922, ch. 507, sec. 745-1.

745Q. Not more than five policewomen shall be appointed under au-
thority of this Act for police duty.

1912, ch. 647. 1922, ch. 507, sec. 745J.

745R. The Policewoman appointed under authority of this Act shall
not be required to pass examination for appointment by the Board of
Police Examiners.

1874, ch. 458. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 727. 1906, ch. 129. 1908, ch. 432.
1910, ch. 471. 1920, ch. 3. 1922, ch. 507.

746. The Police Commissioner is authorized, empowered and directed
to select some suitable person to act as secretary to the chief inspector
of police of said city at a salary of twenty-three hundred dollars ($2,300)
per annum, payable monthly, and the said secretary upon entering upon
the duties of his office shall enter into bond to the State of Maryland in
the penalty of two thousand dollars ($2,000), conditioned for the faithful
discharge of his duties as said secretary, the said bond to be approved by
the said Police Commissioner.*

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 818. 1867, ch. 367. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 728.

747. It shall be his duty to estimate annually what sum of money will
be necessary for each current fiscal year to enable him to discharge the
duty imposed on him, and he shall forthwith certify the same to the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, who are required without delay,
specifically to assess and levy such amount as shall be sufficient to raise
the same clear of all expenses and discounts upon all the assessable prop-
erty in the City of Baltimore, and cause the same to be collected as all
other city taxes; and it is made the duty of the City Collector of Balti-
more, and he is required to collect said tax, to be denominated the police
tax; and the said Police Commissioner, upon and after qualifying as
such is authorized to make requisitions from time to time upon the Comp-
troller of the City of Baltimore, or other proper disbursing officer of the

*Section 2 of chapter 129, Acts of 1906, reads as follows: Sec. 2. And be it further
enacted, That all laws now in force relating to the Board of Police Commissioners
of the City of Baltimore not included in this Act and not inconsistent herewith
shall be and they are continued in force and effect until changed or repealed by the
General Assembly of Maryland. All Acts or parts of Acts Inconsistent with this
Act are hereby repealed, and it is hereby expressly and distinctly understood and
declared that this Act in no manner, shape or form increases or affects the pen-
sions of the retired members of said police force who were retired or will be re-
tired, prior to January 1st, 1907, but that they shall continue to receive the same
amount or same pension they received prior to the said 1st day of January, 1907,
and no more.