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number now authorized by law, of whom not more than twenty
(20) may be females.

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

Approved March 3, 1908.

CHAPTER 432.

AN ACT to repeal sections 742, 743 and 746 of article 4 .of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, entitled "City of
Baltimore," sub-title "Police Commissioners," as the same
was amended by chapter 123 of the Acts of 1898, and further
amended by chapter 129 of the Acts of 1906, and to re-enact
the said sections with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That sections 742, 743 and 746 of article 4, of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, entitled "City of Baltimore,"
sub-title "Police Commissioners," as the same was amended by
chapter 123 of the Acts of 1898, and as the said sections 742,
743 and 746 were further amended by chapter 129 of the Acts of
1906, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments, so as to read as follows:

SEC. 742. The said Board of Police Commissioners shall
select some suitable person to act as secretary to the board,
whose duty it shall be to keep minutes of the preceedings of the"
board, take charge, by the direction of the board, of all property
seized or found by the police or detectives, and to perform all
clerical and proper duties required of him by said board and it
shall be the further duty of the said secretary to prepare forms
of all poll-books and election returns, warrants of arrest and
commitments to be used by judges of election for all elections
held in Baltimore city; to superintend carefully the printing
thereof, and to perform all other clerical duties devolved upon
said board by law in connection with all the elections held in
said city, as may be required of him by said board; said secre-
tary shall enter into bond to the State of Maryland in the same
manner as is by law prescribed for said commissioners in the
sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful dis-
charge of his duties aforesaid, and the safekeeping of all prop-
erty placed in his hands as aforesaid, and shall receive the
salary of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, payable
monthly.

743. The Board of Police Commissioners are hereby au-
thorized to employ an additional officer, to be known as assist-