ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 289

	Chapter 225.
	AN ACT to authorize the Board of Police Commis-
	sioners of the city of Baltimore to appoint one
	woman for each station house in said city, to act as
	matron for female prisoners and refugees therein.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
	of Maryland, That the board of police commissioners
	of Baltimore shall have power, in their discretion, to	Appoint ma-
	appoint for each station house in said city a suitable	tron for station house.
	woman as matron, and when so appointed shall sup-
	ply her with a furnished office room in said station
	bouse.
	SEC. 2. The said matrons shall be appointed to
	serve for four years respectively, subject to removal	Term of ap-
	for cause, after a hearing by the board, which is here-	pointment.
	by invested with exclusive jurisdiction in the prem-
	ises.
	SEC. 3. The duties of each matron shall be to give
	such care and advice and to perform such other police	Duties of ma-
	duties as may be requisite and proper to the female	tron.
	prisoners and refugees in the station house for which
	said matron shall have been appointed.
	SEC. 4. Each of said matrons shall receive a salary
	of ten dollars a week, to be paid out of any fund	Salary — how
	which has been or may hereafter be accumulated by	paid.
	fines and forfeitures imposed and collected by the
	police justices of the peace in said city.
	Approved April 8, 1884.