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fixed by law for patrolmen in the said police force, and said chauffeurs
shall be subject to advancement in pay at the end of the first and second
year's service, the same as is now or may hereafter be provided by law
for patrolmen in the said force.

Said chauffeurs shall be retained on the force during good behavior
and efficiency by the said Police Commissioner and may be removed by
the said Commissioner for official misconduct or inefficiency and trial
had before the Police Commissioner after reasonable notice thereof; pro-
vided, however, all chauffeurs during their first and second year's service
shall be known and regarded as chauffeurs on probation and shall not be
entitled to receive advancement in salary, as herein provided, unless their
services during said probationary period have been satisfactory to the
said Police Commissioner, and unless they are certified to the said Com-
missioner by the Police Physicians as physically qualified to continue
to discharge the duties of a chauffeur, and if their services during such
probationary period have not been satisfactory, or if they are not so cer-
tified by the Police Physicians, any such chauffeur shall in the discretion
of the Commissioner, cease to be a member of the force.

Said chauffeurs shall be included under the provisions of Section 777
of this Article, so that they may enjoy the same rights and privileges and
benefits, subject to the same limitations and conditions as are herein pre-
scribed and enjoyed and conferred for the retiring of the members of the
police force for the said City of Baltimore; provided, however, that any
of the persons herein mentioned who were in the service of the Police
Department prior to the year 1900, (who have not already done so), shall
pay into the special fund a sum equivalent to two per centum on the salary
paid to them since the year 1900; and any who have been employed since
the year 1900 who have not already done so shall pay into the special fund
a sum equivalent to two per centum on the salary paid to them since the
date of their employment, and for the current year and thereafter the
regular percentage required under the special Pension Act.*

PHYSICIANS TO THE POLICE EORCE.

1888, ch. 150. 1904, ch. 630. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 750. 1920, ch. 448.

771. The said Police Commissioner for the City of Baltimore is-
authorized to appoint and commission biennially seven physicians of in-
tegrity and capacity, residents of Baltimore City, and who shall have
practiced medicine therein for at least three years, next preceding the
date of their commission, to act as phvsicians of the Police Department
of said city, under such rules and regulations as the said Commissioner
may from time to time prescribe for their conduct; one of the said phy-
sicians shall be designated by the said Commissioner as the chief physician.

*Section 2 of chapter 111 of 1924 repeals all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict there-
with .to the extent of such conflict...