ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 233

CHAPTER 111.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 770A
of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
title "City of Baltimore", sub-title "Police Commissioner",
as the said section was enacted by Chapter 707 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1920, relating to
the employment, compensation and retiring of chauffeurs.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 770A of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "City of Baltimore", sub-title "Police
Commissioner'', as the said section was enacted by Chapter 707
of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1920, be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments,
so as to read as follows:

770A. The Police Commissioner for the City of Baltimore
is hereby authorized and directed to employ all chauffeurs which
the aforesaid Commissioner may deem necessary for the opera-
tion of the patrol wagons and other automobiles possessed by
the Police Department of Baltimore City. Said chauffeurs shall
receive the same rates of pay for the first and second year's
service, and thereafter as are now, or may hereafter, be fixed
by law for patrolmen in the said police force, and said chauf-
feurs shall be subject to advancement in pay at the end of the
first and second year's service, the same as is now or may here-
after be provided by law for patrolmen in the said force.

Said chauffeurs shall be retained on the force during good
behavior and efficiency by the said Police Commissioner and
may be removed by the said Commissioner for official miscon-
duct or inefficiency and trial had before the Police Commis-
sioner after reasonable notice thereof; provided, however, all
chauffeurs during their first and second year's service shall be
known and regarded as chauffeurs on probation and shall not
be entitled to receive advancement in salary, as herein provided,
unless their services during said probationary period have been
satisfactory to the said Police Commissioner, and unless they
are certified to the said Commissioner by the Police Physicians
as physically qualified to continue to discharge the duties of a

chauffeur, and if their services during said probationary period
have not been satisfactory, or if they are not so certified by the
Police Physicians, any such chauffeur shall in the discretion of
the Commissioner, cease to be a member of the force.