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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 222.

AN ACT to repeal, Section 756 of Article 4 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title " City of Baltimore, "
sub title " Special Fund, " and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

Repeal.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section 756 of article 4 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title " City of Baltimore, " sub-title
"Special Fund, " be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

May retire
policemen
on half pay

SEC. 756. In addition to the sums of money now authorized
by law to be paid out of the fund so as above constituted and
designated, the said Board of Police Commissioners are empow-
ered, whenever, in their opinion, the efficiency of the service
may require it, to retire any officer of police, policeman, detec-
tive, clerk or turnkey, appointed by them, and pay him in
monthly instalments out of said fund, for life, a sum of money
not to exceed one-half of the amount of money monthly paid to

Proviso.

him as such officer of police, policeman, detective, clerk or
turnkey at the time of his said retirement; provided, however, he
shall have served faithfully not less than sixteen years as such
officer of police, policeman, detective, clerk, turnkey, or shall
have been permanently disabled in the discharge of his duty
as such officer of police, police, policeman, detective, clerk or
turnkey; and the said board shall in all cases, before making
such retirement, procure and file among their records a certifi-
cate signed by a majority of the physicians appointed by the
Board of Police Commissioners as physicians of the police
department, that the person proposed to be retired has been
thoroughly examined by them and that he is incapable of per-
forming active police duty; and the said Board of Police Com-
missioners shall have power, in their discretion, to suspend
payment to any such officer of police, policeman, detective,
clerk or turnkey for a term not to exceed three months lor the
first offence, for the second offence for a term not to exceed
six months, and for the third offence, any such officer of police,
policeman, detective, clerk or turnkey shall be subject to dis-
missal, upon proof given that the said officer of police, police-
man, detective, clerk or turnkey, is living an improper or
immoral life.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 6th, 1894.