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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ti tied an act to repeal section eight hundred
and ten, article four of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "City of Baltimore," sub-title
"Police," and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments, be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments so as to read
as follows :

SEC. 810. That the said Board of Police Com-
missioners be and they are hereby authorized
and required, immediately on entering on the
duties of their office, to appoint, enroll and

Enroll police.

employ a permanent police force for the city
of Baltimore, which they shall arm and equip
as they may judge necessary under such rules
and regulations as they may from time to
time prescribe; and the said Board shall have
power to remove any police officer or officers
of police, or any detective, for the violation

May remove.

of any rule or regulations which they may
make and promulgate to said police force,
officers of police or detectives; said force shall
consist of one Marshal and one Deputy-Mar-
shal of Police for the city, and one Captain,
two Lieutenants, two Turnkeys and one Clerk
at each Station House, who shall receive a

Force.

salary of fifteen dollars per week, and such
number of Sergeants as said Board of Police,
in their judgment, may deem necessary for
each Police District in said city, and five hun-
dred and seventy-five men, which force may
be increased at any time, if in the opinion of
the Board the public peace shall require, to
any number, and for such period of time as
they may think proper, by the appointment of
special policemen, who shall receive the sum
of two dollars and fifty cents per day for their

Wages.

services; the period of appointment in the
regular Police Force shall be four years, unless
sooner removed for official misconduct and

Term.

inefficiency, of which the said Board of Police
Commissioners shall determine, and the quali-
fications for the position of officers of police
or policeman or detective, shall be good moral
character, sobriety, citizenship of the United