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(f) Drinking intoxicating liquors or beverages while on
active duty either in uniform or plain clothes.

(g) Visiting any gambling house or house of ill fame not
in the course of his duty.

(h) Absent without leave.
(i) Sleeping on duty.

(j) Absent from beat without proper excuse.

(k) Ignorance of rules or orders.

(1) Neglect to pay any just debt contracted after appoint-
ment.

(m) Disclosing any proposed action or movement in the
Department.

(n) Asking or accepting a bribe lor performance of duty.

(o) Unnecessary use of revolver or club.

(p) Or any other wilful or flagrant violation of rules and
regulations of the Police Department.

221D. The first policeman to be appointed under the pro-
visions of this Act in the year 1941 shall be appointed on or
before the twentieth day of June, 1941. All such policemen
shall hold their respective offices, unless discharged, retired or
otherwise Incapable of serving, until they become sixty-five
years old, when they shall be retired; provided, however, that
any such officer who has become sixty-five years old shall be
eligible for appointment to the position of desk sergeant, which
position he may hold until he becomes seventy years old, at
which time he shall be retired.

No person shall be eligible for appointment as policemen
except males, residents of Frederick City, between the ages of
twenty-five and forty-five years inclusive, who have been recom-
mended by the Police Commissioners for Frederick City and
those who were active members of the police force at the time
of their appointment on December 13, 1940.

221E. Any policeman who is in good standing and who has
served on the force for a period of twenty years, including the
years of service of any policeman now on the force who may
be re-appointed under the provisions of this Act, and who has
been retired from active service as provided in Section 221D
shall be paid, for life, a sum of money equal to one-half of the
salary he was earning at the time of his retirement, payable in
semi-monthly instalments. Any policeman retired as provided
in Section 221D who shall not have served on the force for a
period of twenty years shall be paid, for life, a sum of money
pro rated in the proportion that the years he has served as a
policeman bears to the whole period of twenty years.

The Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick City shall carry, at
the City's expense, Workmen's Compensation Insurance for
the benefit of the members of the police force. In the event