896 ARTICLE 4.

Eight of the Board of Estimates to reduce the amount of the estimate of the
Board of Police Commissioners. Mandamus held to be unnecessary in this case to
compel the city to assess and levy the amount required by the Police Department,
as the Police Board has the authority to make requests from time to time upon the
City Comptroller for their needs. (Construed in connection with Section 747.)

McEvoy v. Baltimore, 126 Md. 111.
Power of school board as to salaries of teachers.

Thomas v. Field, 143 Md. 128. Graham v. Joyce, 151 Md. 298.

1906, ch. 459. 1914, ch. 80.

36A. The Board of Estimates shall have power to increase or decrease
the salaries of all municipal officials, and other persons whose salaries
are named in this Charter or Acts relating to the City of Baltimore, except
the salaries of the members of the Board of Estimates, provided the amount
of such increase or decrease shall be inserted as an item or items in the
Ordinance of Estimates for any year and be subject to the same control
by the City Council as it now has under this Charter of the general items
inserted in said ordinance. Provided, however, that when the salary of
any municipal official or other person, whose salary is so named, shall be
so increased or decreased it shall not again be so increased or decreased
during the term of office of said municipal officer or other person.

Does not apply to members of Police Force.

McEvoy v. Baltimore, 126 Md. 111. Thrift v. Ammidon, 126 Md. 126.

1924, ch. 228.

36AA. The Mayor and City Council may, by ordinance, increase or
decrease the salaries of the members of the Board of Estimates, but when
the salary of any member shall be so increased or decreased it shall not
again be increased or decreased during his term of office. The Board of
Estimates shall include in the Ordinance of Estimates each year the
salaries of its members as fixed by ordinance.*

1912, ch. 429.

36B. The Board of Estimates shall have power to appoint, upon nomi-
nation of the Mayor, a consulting engineer, who shall be paid a salary
to be fixed by said Board, not exceeding $4,000 per year. The duty of
the consulting engineer shall be to advise and assist in the work of the
various engineering departments of the city when called upon so to do.
All engineering questions which come before the Board of Estimates may
be referred to him for consideration and advice, and he shall exercise such
other duties as he may be called upon to exercise by the Mayor or the
Board of Estimates. The consulting engineer shall not be regarded as
a municipal official within the meaning of Section 26.

1914, ch. 539.

36C. All purchases of property, and other contracts involving an ex-
penditure of more than five hundred dollars, except those awarded by
the Board of Awards under Section 15 of the Charter, made by any

*See Sec. 31B ante.