.480 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 298

shall be not less than twenty-five (25) years. He shall be sub-
ject to removal by the Mayor in the manner prescribed by
Section 12 of this Charter. He shall receive a salary of Ten
Thousand Dollars per annum, payable quarterly. The said
Commissioner shall not be eligible to an elective or appointed
office during the term for which he was appointed. Before
entering upon the duties of his office, the Commissioner shall
enter into bond to the City of Baltimore, with one or
more sureties, in the penalty of Ten Thousand Dollars, con-
ditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties as such Com-
missioner; said bond to be approved by the Judge of the
Superior Court of the City of Baltimore, and to be kept and
recorded by the clerk of said Court, in the office thereof, to-
gether with the certificate of appointment as aforesaid, and
shall also take and subscribe before the said Judge of the
Superior Court, or the clerk thereof, the oath or affirmation
prescribed by the sixth section of the first Article of the Con-
stitution, and the further oath or affirmation, that in every
appointment, promotion, reduction in rank or removal to be
made by him, to, in or from the police force created and
organized under this sub-division of this Article, he will in no
case, and under no pretext, appoint, promote, reduce in rank
or remove any policeman or officer of police, or detective, or
any other person under him, for or on account of the political
opinions or affiliations of such policeman, officer, detective or
other person or for any other cause or reason than the fitness
or unfitness of such person, in the best judgment of said Com-
missioner for the place to which he shall be appointed, or from
which he shall be removed, and the said oath or affirmation
shall be recorded and preserved among the records of said
Court.

The said Police Commissioner shall have and exercise all
the powers exercised by the Board of Police Commissioners of
Baltimore City and wherever the term or expression "Board
of Police Commissioners" is used in any of the public local
or public general laws of this State, such term or expression
shall be construed as applying to the Police Commissioner
created by this section.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Sub-section (22)
"Police Power" of Section 6 of Article 4 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland and Baltimore City Charter (1938
Edition), title "Baltimore City", sub-title "General Powers",
as said section was amended by Chapter 548 of the Acts of
1945, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

(22) (Police Power.) Within and subject to the limita-
tions herein prescribed to establish and maintain a Police