356 ARTICLE 2.

1927, ch. 27, sec. 39A.

19. The Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis
at its regular meeting during the month of July in each and every year
shall elect from its members a committee of not more than three mem-
bers, which shall prepare and submit to the said Mayor, Counselor and
Aldermen of the City of Annapolis, after an examination to test the moral,
mental, physical and educational qualifications, an eligible list in order
of merit of those applicants accepted, from which appointments and pro-
motions in the Police and Fire Departments of Annapolis shall be made
and such appointments and promotions shall be made in no other manner.
The said committee as herein provided shall proceed under such rules
and regulations as the said Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen of the City
of Annapolis shall hereafter approve.

1927, ch. 27, sec. 39B.

20. All appointments by the Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen of the
City of Annapolis, in said Police and Fire Departments as provided for
in Section 19 of this Article shall be on probation for a period of one year
after their appointment and may be dropped by the Mayor, Counselor
and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis, if deemed unsuitable for the
service to which they were appointed. After one year of service mem-
bers of the Police and Fire Department may be removed by the Mayor,
Counselor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis only for official mis-
conduct, inefficiency, or physical disability, and before a member may
be dismissed for misconduct or inefficiency, charges in writing must be
filed against him specifying the time, character and place of such mis-
conduct or the particulars of such inefficiency, and a trial held before the
committee after five days' notice to the accused.

1927, ch. 27, sec. 39C.

21. A member of the Police or Fire Department may be retired from
the department after twenty years of active service on a retirement salary
of $50.00 per month, if permanently incapacitated for active duty, if
they contribute three per centum of their current salary to a pension
fund. There shall be no provisions in the law under which a member of
the Police or Fire Department may apply for retirement or be retired
at a certain age limit. In the event that any contributing member of the
department be killed, or dies from natural cause, or injury, then the
amount of his contribution to the fund herein provided shall be refunded
to his nearest relative, but if any member has received a monthly pen-
sion, no refund of his contribution shall be made.

1927, ch. 27, sec. 39D.

22. The Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis
are hereby directed and empowered to set apart out of the taxes collected
in the City of Annapolis, such an amount as is necessary to provide the