FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments so as to read as follows :

SEC. 726. The said board of police commissioners are au-

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thorized and required, immediately on entering on their duties
of their office, to appoint, enroll and 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 regu-
lations 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 of any rule or
regulation which they may make and promulgate to said police
force, officers of police, or any detectives; said police force
shall consist of one marshal and one deputy marshal of police of
the city, and one captain, two lieutenants, two round sergeants,
two turnkeys and one clerk at each station-house, which clerk
shall receive a salary of eighteen 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 six
hundred and twenty 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
services; the period of appointment in the regular police
force shall be four years, unless sooner removed for official
misconduct and inefficiency, of which the said board of police
commissioners shall determine, and the qualifications for the
position of officers of police or policeman, or detective, shall
be of good moral character, sobriety, citizenship of the United
States, ability to read and write, and physical strength and
courage; no person who has been convicted and sentenced to

Police force.

the penitentiary shall be eligible to the position of officer of
police, policeman, detective or special policeman; the pay of
an ordinary policeman shall be eighteen dollars per week, pay-
able semi-monthly; and in case the board shall appoint de-
tective policemen, and they are hereby authorized and em-
powered to do so, if they shall think fit, to the number
of fifteen, said detectives shall receive the sum of twenty-
three dollars per week, payable semi-monthly, and shall
not be allowed to follow any business or profession, but
shall devote their time to the discharge of their duties
as detectives; the officers of police shall be paid semi-
monthly, and their pay shall be as follows : The marshal
shall receive two thousand five hundred dollars per annum ;

Salaries.