4798 ARTICLE 22.

such contract or lighting, the Mayor and Council is hereby authorized and
required to levy and appropriate of the thirty cents tax authorized by Sec-
tion 362 of this article, and not otherwise appropriated by said section,
as much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of raising the amount
to be paid under any such contract or lighting, and the said sum of money
so collected from said tax as aforesaid, appropriated and levied with the
sum received from pro rata apportionment to the same, as provided by
Section 321, shall constitute a separate fund to be kept, applied and drawn
in the same manner and form as the amounts collected from the said levy
of ten cents.

See Secs. 393 and 405, et seq. Mealy v. Hagerstown, 92 Md. 741.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 192. 1884, ch. 58. 1892, oh. 126. 1898, ch. 192, sec. 192.

1900, oh. 391. 1904, ch. 367. 1914, ch. 554. 1918, ch. 2, sec. 192.

1920, ch. 10. 1924, ch. 260, sec. 192. 1927, ch. 355.

358. The Board of Street Commissioners shall appoint as many reg-
ular policemen as they may deem necessary for the good government of
the city, and the said Street Commissioners shall designate one of their
number as "Chief" or "Captain" and another as "Lieutenant". The said
policemen shall serve under such rides and regulations, and for such
compensation, as the Board of Street Commissioners shall direct; such
compensation, however, not to exceed the sum of Two Hundred Dollars
per month for said "Chief" or "Captain" and "Lieutenant," and for other
members of the police force not to exceed the sum of One Hundred and
Fifty Dollars per month, and said police or policemen shall be subject to
dismissal and discharge by said Board of Street Commissioners; they
shall have power to appoint special policemen, if in their judgment the
circumstances of the city shall require it; provided, however, that the term
of appointment of such special policemen shall not exceed a period of
thirty days. The Fire Marshal and Assistant Fire Marshals provided for
by ordinance of the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, for the more effec-
tive discharge of their duties and the protection of property, shall, during
the time of fire, have all the powers of a policeman in the city of Hagers-
town, and said Fire Marshal and Assistant Fire Marshals shall take the
oath prescribed for policemen of said city and shall serve without, pay.
Street Commissioners v. Williams, 96 Md. 232.

1914, ch. 96.

359. The Board of Street Commissioners are hereby empowered and
authorized, whenever in their discretion, the efficiency of the Police Force
of Hagerstown may require it, to retire any regular Policeman, Chief,
Captain or Lieutenant appointed by them, and to pay him for life a
sum of money on monthly installments, equal to one-half of the compensa-
tion allowed him at the date of his retirement; provided, however, that
such regular Policeman, Chief, Captain or Lieutenant shall have served
faithfully as a policeman of Hagerstown for not less than fifteen years
or he shall have been permanently disabled in the discharge of his duty as
a policeman of Hagerstown, and the said Board of Street Commissioners