ART. 4.] CITY OF BALTIMORE.
appointed and qualified, and shall each receive a

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salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per
annum, payable quarterly. Before entering upon
the duties of their office of commissioner, each mem-

Salary.

ber thereof shall enter into bond to the state of
Maryland with one or more sureties, in the penalty
of ten thousand dollars conditioned for the faithful
discharge of his duties as such commissioner, said
bond to be approved of by the judge of the superior
court of the city of Baltimore, to be kept and re-
corded by the clerk of the said court in the office
thereof, together with the certificate of appointment
as aforesaid, and shall also take and subscribe before
the said judge of the superior court, or the clerk

Bond.

thereof, the oath or affirmation prescribed by the
seventh section of the first article of the constitution,
and the further oath or affirmation that in every
appointment or removal to be by them made to or
from the police force created and to be organized by
them under this act, they will in no case and under
no pretext, appoint or remove any policeman or offi-
cer of police, or detective, or any other person under
them, for or on account of the political opinions of
such policeman, officer, detective, or other person,
or for any other cause or reason than the fitness or
unfitness of such person, in the best judgment of
said commissioners for the place to which he shall
be appointed, or from which he shall be moved, and
the said oath or affirmation shall be recorded and
preserved among the records of said court.

Oath.

807. The board of police commissioners, on enter-
ing upon their duties as such, shall select one of their
number who shall be the president, and one of their
number who shall be the treasurer thereof, and in

President and
treasurer of
board

case a vacancy shall happen in said board during
the recess of the general assembly, it shall be filled
by the governor of the slate, which appointment
shall continue until the next session of the general
assembly, which shall proceed to fill said vacancy,
and the general assembly shall also in like manner

Vacancy.