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of Police Examiners of Anne Arundel County that they have
examined the applicant and found that said applicant is physi-
cally and mentally qualified to perform and discharge the
duties of a police officer. Provided, however, that the existing
full time, full pay, uniformed police officers hitherto appointed
by the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County for the
period beginning January 1, 1937, shall be continued in service
as members of the Anne Arundel County Police Department
unless removed or retired in accordance with the provisions of
this sub-title.

406B. There shall be a Board of Examiners for the Police
Department of Anne Arundel County composed of the Presi-
dent of the Board of County Commissioners of Anne Arundel
County, the Chief of the Police Department, who shall each
serve without compensation in addition to that payable to them
by law for the discharge of the duties of their respective
offices, and an experienced physician residing in Anne Arundel
County who shall be appointed for this purpose by the Anne
Arundel County Commissioners on or before the first day of
January in each year, and shall receive for his services such
compensation as may be determined from time to time by the
Board of County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County. It
shall be the duty of such examining Board to ascertain by ap-
propriate investigation the qualifications of all candidates
for appointment or promotion in the Anne Arundel County Po-
lice Department and to furnish upon request to the County
Commissioners of Anne Arundel County lists of those whom
they shall deem qualified for appointment or promotion ar-
ranged in the order of their respective qualifications as dis-
closed by such examination, and from such list appointments
and promotions shall be made by the County Commissioners
of Anne Arundel County except appointment of the position
of Chief of Police, provided, however, they shall not place
upon such list the name of any person who shall be less than
twenty-four years or more than forty years of age for appoint-
ments to such force and the name of any person under thirty
years or more than fifty years of age for promotions, and said
examination shall be conducted by and under definite rules to
be adopted by said examining Board from time to time and
when so adopted to be recorded among the records of the
County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County before the
holding of each and every examination to which they shall be
made applicable

The County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County shall,
after the passage of this Act, designate one member of said
Anne Arundel County Police Department as Chief of the Anne
Arundel County Police Department to hold office until Jan-