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be paid into the State Treasury, and credited to the use of the Depart-
ment of Maryland State Police.

1935, ch. 303, sec. 19.

19. No employee of the Department of Maryland State Police shall
be allowed to receive any moneys as a gratuity, extra compensation or re-
ward, or in any other way, for any services, unless with the consent of the
Superintendent, and any such moneys as any employee may be so permitted
to receive shall be paid over by the said employee to the Superintendent
and shall be appropriated by him as set forth in rules and regulations made
pursuant to this Article. No employee of the Department shall be per-
mitted to receive or collect any witness fees arising out of criminal prose-
cutions in any State court.

1935, ch. 303, sec. 20.

20. The Superintendent shall create and maintain a Bureau of Crimi-
nal Identification and Statistics, and shall assign a competent police em-
ployee of rank designated by him, and any number of assistants as he may
deem necessary to successfully operate said bureau. Such bureau shall
collect and maintain such data and perform such duties as the Superin-
tendent may direct. The Superintendent shall co-operate with the Divi-
sion of Investigation of United States Department of Justice at Washing-
ton, D. C., with bureaus of identification maintained by any municipality
within or without the State of Maryland, and with bureaus of identifica-
tion maintained by other States.

1935, ch. 303, sec. 21. 1939, chs. 697 and 750.

21. It shall be the duty of police employees of the Department to
prevent and detect crime, to apprehend criminals, to enforce the criminal
laws and motor vehicle laws of the State, and to perform such other related
duties as may be imposed upon them by the Legislature, and to this end,
police employees of the Department shall be peace officers, and shall have
in any and all parts of the State, the same powers with respect to criminal
matters and the enforcement of the law relating thereto, as sheriffs, con-
stables, police officers, and peace officers have in their respective jurisdic-
tion, and shall have all the immunities and matters of defense now avail-
able or such as hereafter may be made available to sheriffs, constables,
police officers and peace officers, in any suit brought against them in conse-
quence of acts done in the course of their employment. Any warrant of
arrest issued by any magistrate of the State, at the instance of any police
employee, may be executed by any police employees of the Department in
any part of the State according to the tenor thereof without endorsement.
All police employees shall have all the powers, rights and duties which
were or are granted unto the motor cycle deputies of the Commissioner
of Motor Vehicles, as set forth in Article 56, Sections 141 to 321, inclu-
sive, Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, and shall have all rights
and duties as are granted, or may be granted, unto motor cycle deputies
of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles by any Act or Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1935; provided, however, that Sections 21, 22
and 24, hereof, except to enforce the Motor Vehicle Laws of this State
shall not apply to Charles and Howard Counties.