1448 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 507

inspector shall receive four thousand dollars ($4,000) per
annum; and the other three inspectors, thirty-five hundred dol-
lars ($3,500) each per annum; the captain assigned to have
charge of the detective office shall receive sixty dollars ($60)
per week; and each other captain shall receive fifty dollars
($50) per week; the lieutenant assigned to have charge of the
Bureau of Identification shall receive forty-seven dollars ($47)
per week and all other lieutenants and lieutenant detectives
shall each receive forty-three dollars ($43) per week; each
sergeant and sergeant detective thirty-four dollars ($34) per
week; each turnkey thirty dollars ($30) per week; each patrol-
man, including detective patrolmen shall receive twenty-five
dollars ($25) per week during the first year of his service,
twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($27.50) during the sec-
ond year and thirty dollars ($30) per week thereafter; each
station-house clerk shall receive thirty dollars ($30) per week;
and each clerk not otherwise provided for in this section shall
receive thirty dollars ($30) per week; and each signal and tele-
phone operator shall receive twenty-five dollars ($25) per
week. In addition to the salaries herein provided for, each
member of the Police Department, except the inspectors of
police shall be entitled to additional compensation after serv-
ing five years to the amount of two and one-half per cent,
(2 1.2%) of the salary of his grade or position; after serving
ten years five per cent. (5%) of the salary of his grade or
position; after fifteen years seven and one-half per cent.
(7 1/2%) of the salary of his grade or position; after twenty
years ten per cent. (10%) of the salary of his grade or posi-
tion; after twenty-five years twelve and one-half per cent.
(12 1/2%) of the salary of his grade or position; after thirty
years fifteen per cent. (15%) of the salary of his grade or posi-
tion. All patrolmen during their first and second years serv-
ice shall be known and regarded as patrolmen on probation
and shall not be entitled to receive the advancement in salary
herein provided, unless their services during said probationary
period have been satisfactory to the said Police Commissioner,
and unless they are certified to said Commissioner by the Police
Physicians as physically qualified to continue to discharge the
duties of a patrolman, and if their services during said proba-
tionary period have not been satisfactory, or if they are not so
certified by the Police Physicians, any such patrolman shall,
in the discretion of the Commissioner, cease to be a member
of the force.