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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 129

police headquarters; one captain of detectives; detectives
not exceeding twenty-five, who shall not be allowed to fol-
low any business or profession, but who shall devote their
entire time to the discharge of their duties as detectives ;
such number of sergeants as the board in their judgment
may deem necessary for each police district in said city ;
one additional round sergeant who shall be assigned as
assistant to the superintendent of the police signal and tele-
phone service; seven hundred and twenty-five patrolmen,
and fifty probationers. The said police force may be
increased at any time if in the opinion of the board the public
peace shall so require, to any number and for such periods
of time as they may think proper, by the appointment of
special policemen, who shall receive the sum of $2.50 per
day for their services. The members of the police force shall

Salaries.

receive the following salaries, payable every two weeks: the
marshal shall receive twenty-six hundred and fifty dollars per
annum; the deputy marshal twenty-one hundred and fifty
dollars per annum; each captain, including the captain of
detectives and captain commander, shall receive thirty-two
dollars per week; each lieutenant, twenty-seven dollars per
week; each round- sergeant and detective twenty-five dol-
lars per week; each sergeant twenty-two dollars per week ;
each patrolman and turnkey twenty dollars per week, and
each probationer fifteen dollars per week. Nothing herein
contained shall be construed in any manner changing or
altering the method of making appointments to, promotions
in, or removals from, the police force as prescribed in Chapter
16 of the Acts of 1900, but said police force shall be regu-
lated and managed in all respects in accordance with said
Chapter 16 of said Acts of 1900; and provided, further,

How construed

that nothing herein contained shall be construed to legislate
out of office any police officer, detective or officer of police
now in the force, or any employee of the Board of Police
Commissioners.

746. They are authorized, empowered and directed to
select some suitable person to act as clerk to the Marshal

Clerk to the
marshal to
be appointed

of Police for said city, at a salary of twenty-eight dollars per
week, payable semi-monthly; and the said clerk, upon enter-
ing upon the duties of his office, shall enter into bond to the
State of Maryland in the penalty of two thousand dollars,