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CHAPTER 408.
(Senate Bill 273)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
922 of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland and Charter of Baltimore City (1938 Edi-
tion), title "Baltimore City, " sub-title "Police Exam-
iners, " eliminating the provision providing for the ap-
pointment of police matrons for a specified term.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 922 of Article 4 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland and Charter of Baltimore
City (1938 Edition), title "Baltimore City, " sub-title "Po-
lice Examiners, " be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

922. No woman shall be appointed as a matron or
superintendent of matrons or substitute matron as afore-
said by the Commissioner unless she shall be recommended
to said Commissioner, within three months preceding her
appointment, by at least twenty women in good standing
in said city in writing, as a suitable person for the position,
and the said matrons and superintendents of matrons and
substitute matrons shall be subject to removal for cause
after a hearing by the said Commissioner, who is hereby
vested with jurisdiction in the premises; provided, how-
ever, that said substitute matrons shall perform the duties
of matrons when called upon by said Commissioner in the
absence or disability of any of said matrons, or as necessity
for their services may arise and shall only receive pay
during the time of actual service rendered by them.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1943.

Approved May 6, 1943.

CHAPTER 409.
(Senate Bill 279)

AN ACT to repeal Section 56 of Article 6'5 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1939. ), title "Militia, " and to
repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 1, 20, and
24 of said Article; and to repeal and re-enact with

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