PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1377

judgment may deem necessary; two additional round sergeants,
one of whom shall be assigned as assistant to the superintendent
of the Police Signal and Telephone Service, and one of whom
shall be an experienced machinist and shall be known as super-
intendent of machinery, who shall have charge of the mechan-
ical care and repair of the motor vehicles of the Police De-
partment, respectively, and seven hundred and ninety patrol-
men, to be graded as provided in Section 745 1/2 of this Act.
The said police force may be increased at any time if in the
opinion of the said Board the public peace shall so require, to
any number and for such periods of time as they may think
proper by the appointment of special policemen, who shall
receive the sum of $2.50 per day for their services. The mem-
bers of the police force shall receive the following salaries, pay-
able every two weeks; the marshal of police shall receive thirty-
four hundred dollars per annum; the deputy marshal of police,
twenty-eight hundred dollars per annum; the captain assigned
to have charge of the detectives office shall receive fifty dollars
per week, and all other captains shall each receive forty dol-
lars per week; the lieutenants assigned to have charge of the
Bureau of Identification shall receive thirty-five dollars per
week; and all other lieutenants and detectives shall each re-
ceive thirty dollars per week; each round sergeant, twenty-five
dollars per week; each sergeant twenty-two dollars per week;
except such sergeants as may be now or hereafter assigned by
the said Board of Police Commissioners of Baltimore City to do
clerical duty at Police Headquarters of Baltimore City, and the
sergeant assigned to duty at the Juvenile Court of Baltimore
City, not exceeding seven, who shall each receive the sum of
thirty dollars per week; each turnkey, twenty dollars per
week; each patrolman, twenty dollars per week, except as pro-
vided in Section 745 1/2 of this Act; each station-house clerk shall
receive twenty-two dollars per week, and each signal and tele-
phone operator shall receive sixteen dollars per week; provided,
further, however, that whenever it may be deemed necessary by
the said Board to assign patrolmen to police headquarters for
clerical or technical duty, such patrolman while so assigned
shall receive in the discretion of the said Board a salary of not
less than twenty nor more than twenty-two dollars per week;
provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to legislate out of office any 'police officer, detective or
officer of police now on the force or any clerk or any appointee
or any employee of the Board of Police Commissioners of Balti-
more City.