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the orders of his superior officer in such behalf, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and punishable as in such cases made and provided.

1867, ch. 367. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 730. 1922, ch. 507.

749. Whenever a vacancy shall take place in any grade of officers,
it shall be filled from the next lowest grade, and detective lieutenants shall
be eligible to appointment as captains as fully as if they were lieutenants
in the regular force; the Police Commissioner is authorized to make all
such rules and regulations not inconsistent with this subdivision of this.
Article as he may judge necessary, for the appointment and employment,
uniforming, discipline, trial and government of the police and detectives;
said Commissioner shall have power to require of any policeman, officer
of police or detective, bond with sureties when he may consider it de-
manded by the public interests. All lawful rules and regulations of the
Commissioner shall be obeyed by the policemen, officers of police and
detectives on pain of dismissal or such lighter punishment as may be
prescribed by the said Commissioner; and the said Commissioner shall
have power to suspend from duty, fine or forfeit the pay of any officer or
policeman, or suspend any rule or regulation made and adopted by him.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 814. 1867, ch. 367. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 731.

750. No officer of police, policeman or detective shall be allowed to
receive any money as a gratuity or extra compensation for any services he
may render, without the consent of the said Commissioner; and all such
moneys as any officer of police, policeman and detective may be so per-
mitted to receive shall be paid over to the said Commissioner and together
with the proceeds of all fines, forfeitures, penalties and unclaimed prop-
erty which may come into the possession of the said Commissioner, or be
recovered by him under the provisions of this subdivision of this Article,
or any other law, shall form a fund which the Commissioner may apply
towards the allowances of officers of police, policemen and detectives and1
their families, as hereinbefore authorized, and for extra pay to such mem-
bers of the force as by gallantry and good conduct on extraordinary occa-
sions they may be judged to merit; and any officer of police, policeman or
detective who shall directly or indirectly in violation of this section,
receive any moneys as a gratuity or extra compensation, and shall fail to
deliver the same to the Commissioner for the purposes, hereinbefore pro-
vided, and shall apply the same to his own use, shall be forthwith dis-
missed, and be forever after ineligible to any position in the force.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 821. 1874, ch. 146. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 732.

751. The Police Commissioner shall cause to be kept by his secretary,
a full report of his proceedings, and also cause all his receipts and dis-
bursements of money to be faithfully entered in books to be provided for
that purpose; and said books, journals and all other documents in the
possession of said Commissioner, shall always be open to inspection by
the General Assembly, or any committee appointed by it for that purpose;