ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  651

of the Board of County Commissioners of Baltimore County,
the Chief of the Police Department, who shall each serve
without compensation in addition to that payable to them
by law for the discharge of the duties of their respective
offices, and an experienced physician residing in Baltimore
County who shall be appointed for this purpose by the Balti-
more County Commissioners on or before the first clay of Jan-
uary in each year. The physician so appointed as a member
of the Board of Examiners for the Police Department shall
also be designated by the Board of County Commissioners as a
member of the Board of Examiners for the Fire Department
of Baltimore County, and shall receive for his services as a
member of both of said boards such compensation as may be
determined from time to time by the Board of County Com-
missioners, of Baltimore County. It shall be the duty of such
examining board to ascertain by appropriate investigation the
qualifications of all candidates for appointment or promotion
in the Police Department of Baltimore County and to furnish
upon request to the County Commissioners of Baltimore Coun-
ty lists of those who they shall deem qualified for appointment
or promotion arranged in the order of their respective qualifi-
cations as disclosed by such examination, and from such list of
appointments, promotions shall be made by the said Board of
County Commissioners of Baltimore County except appoint-
ment of the position of Chief of Police, provided, however,
they shall not place upon such list the name of any person
who shall be less than twenty-one years or more than thirty-
five years of age, and said examination shall be conducted by
and under definite rules to be adopted by said examining board
from time to time and when so adopted to be recorded among
the records of the office of the County Commissioners of Balti-
more County before the holding of every examination to which
they shall be made applicable.

530. The County Commissioners of Baltimore County are
hereby authorized to retire from office in the Police Depart-
ment of Baltimore County, any permanent member thereof, in-
cluding the Chief, who has become permanently disabled while
in the active performance of duty or has performed faithful
service in the department for a period of not less than twenty
consecutive years, and place the member so retired upon a pen-
sion roll and allow to each pensioner annually an amount equal
to one-half the yearly amount received by him at the time of
his retirement, payable in monthly installments, that no mem-