1220 ARTICLE 4.

1924, ch. 512.

764A. The fireman at the Central Police Station shall receive an
annual salary of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) per year, the said salary
to be paid at the same time and in the same manner as other salaries are
paid to the employees of the Police Department.

MATRONS AT THE STATION HOUSES.

1884, ch 225. 1892, ch. 536. 1900, ch. 533. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 744.

765. The Police Commissioner of Baltimore shall appoint two suit-
able women as matrons at each of the station-houses in said city, one for
day and the other for night service and one suitable woman as superin-
tendent of matrons for Baltimore City, and two additional suitable women
as substitute matrons, and shall provide a furnished room at each of said
station-houses for them.

1884, ch. 225. 1892, ch. 536. 1900, ch. 533. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 745.

766. No woman shall be appointed as a matron or superintendent of
matrons or substitute matron as aforesaid by the Commissioner unless
she shall be recommended to said Commissioner, within three months pre-
ceding her appointment, by at least twenty women in good standing in
said city in writing, as a suitable person for the position, and the said
matrons and superintendents of matrons and substitute matrons shall be
appointed to serve for four years, subject to removal for cause after a
hearing by the said Commissioner, which is hereby vested with jurisdic-
tion in the premises; provided, however, that said substitute matrons shall
perform the duties of matrons when called upon by said Commissioner
in the absence or disability of any of said matrons, or as necessity for their
services may arise and shall only receive pay during the time of actual
service rendered by them.

1884, ch. 225. 1892, ch. 536. 1900, ch. 533. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 746.

767. The duties of each matron shall be to give such care and advice,
and to perform such other police duties as may be requisite and proper,
to the female persons, male children under fourteen years of age, and
refugees in the station-house for which said matrons shall have been ap-
pointed or assigned; and the duties of the superintendent of matrons
shall be to visit each of the police station-houses twice each week, and to
give assistance to the matrons in the performance of their duties, and to
make such recommendations from time to time to the Police Commis-
sioner as may promote the efficiency and proper performance of the duties
of the matron.

1884, ch 225. P. L. L. (1888). Art 4, sec. 747. 1892, ch. 536. 1900, ch. 533.

1902, ch. 492. 1908, ch. 173. 1914, ch. 757. 1920, ch. 540.

1924, ch. 446. 1929, ch. 287.

768. Each of said matrons, and substitute matrons when employed,
shall receive a salary of thirty-five dollars per week and the Superin-