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sioner may from time to time direct; not more than
sixteen hundred (1,600) patrolmen; in addition to the
detective patrolmen hereinbefore provided for, one policewo-
man with the rank of sergeant and thirteen (13) other police-
women; one (1) Traffic Engineer; five (5) investigators; one
(1) draftsman, and one (1) clerk, Traffic Bureau; one (1) su-
pervisor, Taxicab Bureau; eighteen (18) matrons; one (1) male
stenographer; one (1) lineman designated as superintendent;
one (1) lineman designated as foreman and thirteen (13)
linemen, Telephone and Signal Division; eighteen (18) char-
women; three (3) hostlers; thirty-eight (38) chauffeurs; one
(1) chief engineer, two (2) engineers and three (3) firemen,
Marine Division; one (1) foreman, such number of main-
tenance men and laborers as may in the judgment of the
Commissioner be necessary; one (1) chief machinist; four-
teen (14) machinists; one (1) printer; twenty-four (24)
turnkeys; twenty-five (25) signal and telephone operators;
eight (8) station-house clerks, and such number of clerks
for duty at police headquarters as may in the judgment of
the said Commissioner be necessary.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1947.

Approved May 7, 1947.

CHAPTER 908.
(House Bill 147)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
223 and 226 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1939 Edition), title "Public Education", sub-title
"Chapter 21. School Attendance", relating to the education
of children partially, or totally blind or deaf.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 223 and 226 of Article 77 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Public Educa-
tion", sub-title "Chapter 21. School Attendance", be and they
are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

223. Every child between six and eighteen years of age,
who by reason of any partial or total deafness or partial or
total blindness is unable to progress satisfactorily in ordinary