ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1447

assistants to the secretary of the Commissioner at the salary
of two thousand dollars ($2,000) each, per annum, payable
monthly.

745. The said Police Commissioner is authorized and re-
quired immediately on entering upon the duties of his office to
appoint, enroll and employ a permanent police force for the
City of Baltimore which he shall arm and equip as he may
judge necessary under such rules and regulations as he may
from time to time prescribe, and the said Commissioner shall
have the power to remove any police officer or officer of police,
or any detective, for any violation of any rule or regulation
which he may make and promulgate to the said police force,
officers of police or any detective; said police force shall con-
sist of four inspectors of police, one to be designated from time
to time by the Police Commissioner as chief inspector, and to
be assigned to have charge of said police force, and the others
to be assigned to such duties as the Commissioner may from
time to time direct, with full power to the said Commissioner
to change such chief inspector at any time when he may de-
sire to do so and appoint another one of the inspectors to the
duties of said chief inspector; fourteen (14) captains; not
more than thirty-six (36) lieutenants, in addition to the
detective lieutenants hereinafter provided for; one hundred
and eighty-five (185) sergeants, in addition to the detective
sergeants hereinafter provided for, each of whom shall be as-
signed from time to time to such duties as the said Commis-
sioner may direct; seventy-eight (78) -detectives, twenty-five
(25) of whom shall rank as detective lieutenants, twenty-eight
(28) as detective sergeants and twenty-five (25) as detective
patrolmen, each of whom shall perform such duties as mem-
bers of the detective force as the said Commissioner may from
time to time direct; not more than thirteen hundred and fifty
(1350) patrolmen, in addition to the detective patrolmen here-
inbefore provided for, and subject to the restrictions herein-
after set forth; twenty-four (24) turnkeys; twenty-five (25)
signal and telephone operators; eight (8) station-house clerks;
and such number of clerks for duty at police headquarters as
may in the judgment of the said Commissioner be necessary.
The Police Commissioner shall appoint no patrolmen in excess
of eleven hundred and fifty (1150) prior to the first day of
January, 1924.

The members of the police force shall receive the fol-
lowing salaries, payable every two weeks: The chief