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semi-monthly; and in case the Board shall appoint detective
policemen, and they are hereby authorized and empowered 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; the
deputy marshal shall receive two thousand dollars per annum;
each captain shall receive thirty dollars per week; each lieuten-
ant, twenty-five dollars per week; each round sergeant, twenty-
three dollars per week; each sergeant, twenty dollars per week;
and each turnkey eighteen dollars per week; the pay herein pro-
vided for police officers, policemen and detectives shall con-
tinue in force until a change shall be made by law. They are
authorized and empowered to appoint thirty-five additional
officers, who shall be known as probation officers, who shall
hold their places without a commission until vacancies shall
occur in the regular force, when they shall be appointed to such
vacancies in the order of their appointment on the probationary
list; provided, that at the time of said vacancy they shall, in the
judgment of the Board of Police Commissioners, be fully com-
petent in all respects' to be commissioned for the full term of
four years; the pay of said officers so appointed as aforesaid,
shall be twelve dollars per week, to be paid at the same time
and in the same manner as the other officers of said police force
are paid.

746. They are authorized, empowered and directed to select
some suitable person to act as clerk to the Marshal of Police for
said City, at a salary of twenty-five dollars per week, payable
semi-monthly; and the said clerk, before entering upon the
duties of his office, shall enter into bond to the State of Mary-
land in the penalty of two thousand dollars, conditioned for the
faithful discharge of his duties as such clerk, the said bond to
be approved by them.