FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 536.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments sections

seven hundred and forty-one, seven hundred and forty-

four, seven hundred and forty-five, seven hundred and

forty-six, and seven hundred and forty -seven, of the Code

of Public Local Laws of the State of Maryland, title

" City of Baltimore," sub title " Police."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That sections seven hundred and forty-one,

seven hundred and forty -four, seven hundred and forty-five,

Repealed

seven hundred and forty-six, and seven hundred and forty-

and
re-enacted.

seven, of the Code of Public Local Laws of the State of

Maryland, title "City of Baltimore," sub-title "Police"

be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as

to read as follows :

SEC. 741. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That all persons arrested in the day-time under the

Examina-
tion of

provisions of this sub-title of this article shall be taken by

prisoners.

the officer making the arrest immediately before the nearest

police justice for examination except that all females and

male children under fourteen years of age who may be

arrested or taken into custody shall be taken before the

nearest police justice for examination when there shall be

matrons at the station house as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 744. And be it enacted, That the Board of Police

Commissioners of Baltimore shall appoint two suitable

women as matrons at four of the station houses in said city

Matrons.

and may in their discretion appoint one or two suitable

women as matrons at the other station houses in said city,

one for day and the other for night service, and shall pro-

vide a furnished room at each of said station houses for

them.

SEC. 745. And be it enacted, That no woman shall be

appointed as a matron as aforesaid by the said board unless

Appoint-

she shall be recommended to said board within three months

ments.

preceding her appointment, by at least twenty women in

good standing in said city, in writing as a suitable person

for the positiou ; and the said matrons shall be appointed

to serve for four years, subject to removal for cause, after

a hearing by the said board, which is hereby vested with

jurisdiction in the premises.

SEC. 746. And be it enacted, That the duties of each

matron shall be to give such care and advice and to perform

Duties of
matron.

such other police duties as may be requisite and proper to