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thereof, together with the certificate of appointment as afore-
said; and shall also take and subscribe before the said Judge of
the Superior Court, or the clerk thereof, the oath or affirmation
prescribed by the sixth section of the first Article of the Consti-
tution; and the further oath or affirmation, that in every appoint-
ment or removal to be made by them to or from the police force,
created and to be organized by them under this sub-division of
this Article, they will in no case, and under no pretext, appoint
or remove any policeman or officer of police, or detective, or
any other person under them, for or on account of the political
opinions of such policeman, officer, detective or other person,
or for any other cause or reason than the fitness or unfitness of
such person, in the best judgment of said Commissioners, for
the place to which he shall be appointed, or from which he shall
be removed; and the said oath or affirmation shall be recorded
and preserved among the records of said court.

741. The Board of Police Commissioners, on entering
upon their duties as such, shall select one of their number who
shall be the president, and one of their number who shall be
the treasurer thereof; and in case a vacancy shall happen in said
Board during the recess of the General Assembly, it shall be
filled by the Governor of the State, which appointment shall
continue until the next session of the General Assembly, which
shall proceed to fill said vacancy; and the General Assembly
shall also, in like manner, elect by joint ballot, Commissioners
to succeed those whose term of service shall expire—such elec-
tion to be had at the regular session of the General Assembly
immediately preceding such expiration—and neither of said
Commissioners shall be eligible to an elective or appointed
office during the term for which he has been elected, except
under the militia laws of the State; and for any official miscon-
duct on the part of said Commissioners, the General Assembly,
if in session, shall have power of removal, and during the recess
of the same, the Governor shall remove any of said Commis-
sioners, on conviction for any felony before any court of law,
and shall appoint a successor to such delinquent Commissioner