1376 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 745 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, entitled, '' City of Baltimore,'' sub-title'' Police Com-
missioners," as the same was repealed and re-enacted by Chap-
ter 123 of the Acts of 1898, as repealed and re-enacted by Chap-
ter 425 of the Acts of 1900, as repealed and re-enacted by Chap-
ter 129 of the Acts of 1906, as repealed and re-enacted by Chap-
ter 234 of the Acts of 1908, and as repealed and re-enacted by
Chapter 847 of the Acts of 1912, be, and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as fol-
lows:

SEC. 745. The said Board of Police Commissioners are au-
thorized and required immediately on entering upon the 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 regulations
as they may from time to time prescribe, and the said Board
shall have the power to remove any police officer or officer of
police, or any detective for the violation of any rule or regula-
tion which they may make and promulgate to the said police
force, officers of police or any detective; said police force shall
consist of one marshal and one deputy marshal of police; and
for each police district, one captain, two lieutenants, two round
sergeants, two turnkeys (who shall have the rank of patrol-
man), and one clerk, and not more than three signal and tele-
phone operators at each station-house; two additional captains,
one of whom shall be assigned to have charge of the detective
office, and one of whom shall be assigned to have charge of the
police patrol boats; five additional lieutenants, one of whom
shall be assigned to have charge of the Bureau of Identifica-
tion; one of whom shall be assigned to the said police patrol
boats; one of whom shall be assigned to have charge of the
police department horses, wagons, motor vehicles and stables;
one of whom shall be the superintendent of the police signal
and telephone service; one of whom shall be assigned to night
duty at Police Headquarters; and defectives not exceeding
twenty-five, who shall not be allowed to follow any business or
profession, but who shall devote their entire time to the dis-
charge of their duties as detectives, no such lieutenant of de-
tectives shall be eligible to take an examination for the grade
of captain until he shall have served ten years as a detective,
each and all such detectives to rank as lieutenants with equal
opportunities of promotion with other lieutenants; such num-
ber of sergeants as the Board of Police Commissioners in their