ART. 4.] CITY OF BALTIMORE.

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the board shall appoint detective policemen, and
they are hereby authorized and empowered to do so
if they shall think fit to the number of ten, said
detectives shall receive each the sum of twenty dol-
lars per week, payable semi-monthly, and shall not
be allowed to follow any business or profession, but
shall devote their whole time to the discharge of
their duty as detectives ; the officers of police shall
be paid semi-monthly and their pay shall be as fol-
lows: the marshal shall receive two thousand dol-
lars per annum, the deputy marshal shall receive
fifteen hundred dollars per annum, each captain
twenty-two dollars per week, each lieutenant twenty
dollars per week, each sergeant nineteen dollars per
week, and each turnkey fifteen dollars per week, the
pay herein provided for the officers of police, police-
men, and detectives shall continue until the tenth
day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and
until a change shall be made by the act of the general
assembly.

811. The said board of police commissioners shall
have the power, and it shall be their duty, from
time to time, to select and employ from among the
duly appointed and qualified justices of the peace
for the city of Baltimore, one justice to sit at each
station house for the hearing of such charges as may
be brought against such persons as may be arrested
and carried to said station, houses, and shall have full
power to pay to said justices such reasonable compen-
sation as they, the said board, may think proper, and
to remove and change the said justices at their plea-

Board to ap-
point Justices
of the peace for
station houses

sure ; provided, that nothing in this section shall be
so construed as to prohibit the said justices from
recovering from the parties so arrested and tried.

Proviso.

such fees as they may be by law entitled to receive
for their services, and it shall be the duty of the
officers of police, policemen and detectives appointed

Fees of justices

under this act, to execute any and all warrants and
commitments which the said justices may issue and
direct to them.

Warrants, &c.