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be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall
be fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $100.00. Provided, however,
that this Act is not intended to apply to regular dancing schools where
the art is regularly taught and where dancing parties are given in con-
nection with the scheduled classes on stated nights from 8 to 12 o'clock
and where no liquors are sold or disposed. That all owners or managers
of regular dancing academies or places used for instruction in the art
of dancing shall pay an annual license fee of five dollars for such privilege.

1900, ch. 266. 1927, ch. 197.

776D. The Police Commissioner shall pay to the widow of any mem-
ber of said poilce force within the limits of said city who shall have been
killed while in the actual performance of duty, or shall have died in con-
sequences of injuries received while in the discharge of duty an allow-
ance until she remarries, equal to the sum which her husband would have
received, had he been retired, under Section 771-1. If there be no widow,
but a child or children, then he shall pay to such child or children whilst
under the age of eighteen years, a sum such as parent would have been
entitled to out of said special fund under said Section 777-1.

1900, ch. 266.

776E. Salaries granted under Chapter 494, of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January session 1898, and all
other salaries granted by special Acts shall be for the natural life of the
retired or disabled officer, and shall not be revoked, repealed or diminished
except for causes therein provided.

Section 756 of this Article, ante.

1900, ch. 266.

776F. No member of the police force, whether policeman, officer of
police, detective, clerk, turnkey, or in any other capacity, shall be granted,
awarded or paid a retiring salary on account of physical or mental dis-
ability or diseases, unless certificate of so many of the police surgeons or
other competent and reputable physicions as the Police Commissioner
may require, which shall set forth the cause, nature and extent of the
disability, disease or injury of such member, shall be filed in the office
of the Commissioner, and no member shall hereafter be retired upon
salary or be salaried, nor shall any money or salary be awarded, granted
or paid except as provided in this Chapter, and Chapter 494, of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January session, 1898,
any other law to the contrary notwithstanding. The said Police Com-
missioner is authorized and empowered to make and adopt all such rules,
orders and regulations as are or may be necessary to carry out and en-
force the provisions of this Act.

1886, ch. 450. 1888, ch. 306. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 756. 1912, ch. 567.
777. In addition to the sums of .money now authorized by law to be
paid out of the fund as above constituted and designated, the said Police