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and laborers; provided, however, the expenditures therefor will
not impair the special fund mentioned in sections 576 and 777
of this Article so as to prevent its sufficient application to the
purposes provided for in said sections.

Physicians to the Police Force.

771. They are authorized to appoint and commission, an-
nually, three physicians of integrity and capacity, residents of
Baltimore City, and who shall have practised medicine therein
for at least three years next preceding the date of their com-
mission, to act as physicians of the Police Department of said
City, under such rules and regulations as the said Board may
from time to time prescribe for their conduct.

772. The duties of the said physicians shall be to examine
thoroughly all applicants for position in the police force of
Baltimore City, and to test their entire fitness in every respect
for such position; to visit all policemen, turnkeys, detectives,
officers of police and clerks of said force, who may be returned
as sick, and to report their condition to the said Board; to visit
and professionally attend any and all of the said persons who
may be injured or disabled in the performance of their duties
as members of the said force; to thoroughly examine and report
to the said Board the physical condition of each and every mem-
ber of said force, who may, upon his own application, or who
the said Board may think should be retired from the said force
and be pensioned under this sub-division of this Article, and to
perform all such other and further professional duties in con-
nection with the said department and force as the said Board
may from time to time deem necessary and prescribe for them.

773. The annual salary of each of the said physicians shall
be the sum of one thousand dollars, payable in equal monthly
instalments, but the tenure of office of the said physicians, and
of each, of them, shall be determinable within the appointed
year, by a majority of the said Board, and in their exclusive
discretion; and the said physicians, and each of them, shall be
compensated only up to the time of such determination at the
rate of the annual salary aforesaid.