ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 13

recieive thirty dollars per week, and each signal and telephone
operator shall receive twenty-five dollars per week; provided,
however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed 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 Baltimore
City.

745 1/2. The patrolmen provided for in Section 745 of this
Act shall receive the following salaries, payable every two
weeks, viz:—Twenty-five dollars per week during the first
year's service; twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents per week
daring the second year; thirty dollars per week thereafter.
Patrolmen during their first and during their second year's
service shall be known and regarded as patrolmen on proba-
tion and they shall not be entitled to receive the advance in
salary as in this action provided except their services during
such probationary period have been satisfactory, except after
examination by said Board of Police Commissioners as to their
records, efficiency and conduct, and unless they are certified to
said Board by the police physicians as physically qualified to
continue to discharge the duties of a patrolman.

745H. The Board of Police Commissioners are hereby em-
powered, to appoint, jn their discretion, one or more matrons
to the police force of Baltimore City, with full power to such
matrons to act as conservators of the peace, perform such
other duties as the Board may prescribe and to be subject in
all respects to such rules and regulations a,s the Board of Police
Commissioners may adopt, and the said Board shall have the
power to remove any matron appointed by them for the viola-
tion of any rule or regulation of the said Board. The salary
of a matron so appointed under the authority of this Act shall
not exceed the sum of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200.00) per
annum to be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
and it shall be included in the annual estimate of expenses
by said Board of Police Commissioners, certified to the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore.

746. They are authorized, empowered and directed to
select some suitable person to act as secretary to the marshal
of police of said city, at a salary of twenty-three hundred
($2,300.00) dollars p'er annum, payable monthly; and the
said secretary upon entering upon the duties of his office shall