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Supplement to the Maryland Code, Containing the Acts of the General Assembly, Passed at the Session of 1870
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ART. 4. ] CITY OF BALTIMORE. 241

MILITIA.
See 1870, c. 182 under public general laws, Article LXIII, Military.

POLICE.

1870, c. 287 repeals section 810 as repealed and re-enacted by 1867, c. 367, and re-
enacts the same so as to read as follows:

810. The said board of police commissioners are au-
thorized and required immediately on entering 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 regulations as they may
from time to time prescribe, and the said board shall
have power to remove any police officer, or officers of
police, or any detective, for the violation of any rule or
regulation, which they may make and promulgate to
said police force, officers of police and detectives, said

1870, c. 287.
Board to enroll,
&c, police force

force shall consist of one marshal and deputy marshal
of police for the city, and one captain, two lieutenants,
two turnkeys and such number, of sergeants as said
board of police, in their judgment, may deem neces-
sary, for each police district in said city, and five hun-
dred 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 proper by the appointment of spe-
cial policemen, who shall receive the sum of two dol-
lars and fifty cents per day for their service; the period

What police
force to consist
of.

of appointment in the regular police force shall be four
years, unless sooner removed for official misconduct;

Term.

and the qualifications for the position of officer of police
or policemen or detective, shall be good moral charac-
ter, 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
penitentiary shall be eligible to the position of officer of
police, policeman, detective or special policeman. The

Qualifications.



 

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