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CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

may adopt ; and the said board shall have power to
administer oaths or affirmations in the premises to
any person or persons appearing or called before
them, and shall also have the power of administer-
ing oaths or affirmations, and summoning witnesses
before them whenever it may be necessary for the
more effectual discharge of their duties.

Board to enroll,
&c., police
force.

810. The said board of police commissioners, are
hereby authorized and required immediately on enter-
ing upon the duties of their office to appoint, enroll,
and employ a permanent police force for the city of
Baltimore, which they shall arm and equip as they
may judge necessary under such rules and regula-
tions as they may from time to time prescribe, and
the said board shall have the power to remove any
police officer, or officer of police, or any detective,
for the violation of any rule or regulation, which
they may make and promulgate to said police force,

What police to
consist of, &c.

Pay

officers of police, and detectives, said force shall con-
sist of one marshal and one deputy marshal of police
for the city, and one captain, and two lieutenants,
eight sergeants, and two turnkeys for each police dis-
trict in said city, and five hundred men, which force
may be increased at any time, if in the opinion of the
board the public peace shall require to any number,
and for such period of time, as they may think pro-
per by the appointment of special policemen, who
shall receive the sum of two dollars and fifty cents
per day for their services, the periods of appointment
in the regular force shall be four years, unless sooner
removed for official misconduct, and the qualifica-
tions for the position of officer of police, policemen,
or detective shall be good moral character, sobriety,
citizenship of the United States, ability to read and
write, and physical strength and courage, no person
who has been convicted and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary shall be eligible to the position of officer of
police, policemen, detective, or special policeman;
the pay of an ordinary policeman shall be eighteen
dollars per week, payable semi-monthly, and in case