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tendent of Matrons a salary of thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents per
week to be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and it shall
be included in the annual estimate of expenses by the said Police Com-
missioner certified by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

1912, ch. 59. 1924, ch. 446.

768A. The Police Commissioner for the City of Baltimore is hereby
authorized to employ such number of women as charwomen for the sev-
eral station-houses in the City of Baltimore as may in the judgment of
said Police Commissioner be necessary to care for the said station-houses;
and the said charwomen and substitute charwomen so employed shall,
beginning with the first of January, 1925, each receive a salary of seven-
teen dollars and fifty cents a week, payable at such regular periods as the
Police Commissioner may prescribe, not less than twice a month, said
salary to be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and to
be included in the annual estimate of expenses by said Police Commis-
sioner, certified to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

MILITIA.

1870, ch. 182. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 748.

769. Whenever the Police Commissioner for the City of Baltimore,
or the Sheriff of any county, shall call out any portion of the militia to
aid in preventing threatened disorder or opposition to the laws, or in sup-
pressing riot or disorder on election days, or at any other times, said mili-
tary force shall be deemed to be on detached service while under the orders
of the said Commissioners or Sheriff; and the commanding officer thereof
shall not be subject to the orders of any superior officer whatsoever, except
the commander-in-chief.

PATROL WAGONS.

1886, ch. 459. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 749.

770. The said Police Commissioner is authorized and directed to
construct, equip and maintain a telephone alarm and patrol wagon service,
with all necessaries, appliances and laborers; provided, however, the ex-
penditures therefor will not impair the special fund mentioned in Sections
576 and 777 of this Article, so as to prevent its sufficient application to
the purposes provided for in said sections.

1920, ch. 707. 1924. ch. 111.

770A. The Police Commissioner for the City of Baltimore is hereby
authorized and directed to employ all chauffeurs which the aforesaid
Commissioner may deem necessary for the operation of the patrol wagons
and other automobiles possessed by the Police Department of Baltimore
City. Said chauffeurs shall receive the same rates of pay for the first and
second year's service, and thereafter as are now, or may hereafter, be