ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 779

title, "City of Baltimore, " subtitle "Police Commissioners, " as
said section was amended by Chapter 507 of the Acts of
1932, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments to read as follows:

745. The said Police Commissioner is authorized and
required 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 regula-
tion 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 desire to do so and appoint another one of the inspec-
tors 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 assigned from time to time to such duties as the
said Commissioner may direct: seventy-eight (78) detec-
tives twenty-five (25) of whom shall rank as detective lieuten-
ants, twenty-eight (28) as detective sergeants and twenty-five
(25) as detective patrolmen, each of whom shall perform
such duties as members of the detective force as the said
commissioner may from time to time direct: not more than
thirteen hundred and fifty (1, 350) patrolmen, in addition
to the detective patrolmen hereinbefore provided for, and sub-
ject to the restrictions hereinafter set forth; twenty-four (24)
turnkeys; twenty-five (2. 5) 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 Com-
missioner be necessary. The Police Commissioner shall ap-
point no patrolmen in excess of eleven hundred and fifty
(1. 150) prior to the first day of January, 1924.