1904.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 100]

of Maryland that sections 771 and 773 of Article 4,
Public Local Laws, entitled 'City of Baltimore,' sub-
title 'Police Commissioners,' as amended and re-enact-
ed by chapter 123 of the Acts of 1898, be repealed and
re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows.

Which was adopted.
Also,

"Section 771. The said Board of Police Commis-
sioners for the city of Baltimore are authorized to
appoint and commission bi-annually, tive physicians
of integrity and capacity, residents of Baltimore city,
and who shall have practiced medicine therein for at
least three years next proceeding the date of their
commission, to act as physicians of the Police Depart-
ment of said city, under such rules and regulations as
the said Board may from time to time prescribe for
their conduct, one of said physicians shall be desig-
nated by the said Board as the chief physician."

Which was adopted.
Also,

"Section 773. The salary of the said chief physician
shall be fifteen hundred dollars per annum, payable
monthly, and the salary of each of the other of said
physicians shall be one thousand dollars per annum,
payable monthly, but the tenure of said physicians
shall be determinable within the term for which he or
they were appointed by a majority of the said board,
and in their exclusive discretion; and the said chief
physician and each of the other of said physicians
shall be compensated only up to the time of such de-
termination at the rate of his or their salary aforesaid.

Which was adopted.

"Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage."

Which was adopted.

Which was read the second time and ordered to be
engrossed for a third reading.

Also favorably, with amendments,
House bill, File No. 569, entitled "An Act to auth-
orize, empower and direct the Board of Police Com-