780 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 263

The members of the police force shall receive the following-
salaries, payable every two weeks: The chief inspector shall
receive four thousand dollars ($4, 000) per annum; and the
other three inspectors, thirty-five hundred dollars ($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 Identifica-
tion shall receive forty-seven dollars ($47) per week, and all
other lieutenants and lieutenant detectives shall receive forty-
three dollars ($43) per week; each sergeant and sergeant
detective, thirty-six dollars and fifty cents ($36. 50) per week;
each turnkey, thirty-two dollars and fifty cents ($32. 50) per
week; each patrolman, including detective patrolmen, shall
receive twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($27. 50) per week
during the first year of his sendee, thirty dollars ($30) during
the second year and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents ($32. 50)
per week thereafter; each station-house clerk shall receive
thirty-two dollars and fifty cents per week; and each clerk not-
otherwise provided for in this section shall receive thirty-two
dollars and fifty cents ($32. 50) per week; and each signal and
telephone operator shall receive twenty-seven dollars and fifty
cents ($27. 50) 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 compensa-
tion after serving five years to the amount of two and one-half
per cent. (2½%) 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.
(7½%) 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.
(12½%) of the salary of his grade or position; after thirty
years, fifteen per cent. (15%) of the salary of his grade or
position. All patrolmen during their first and second years'
service shall be known and regarded as patrolmen on probation
and shall not be entitled to receive 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 dis-
charge the duties of a patrolman, and if their services during
said probationary period have not been satisfactory, or if they