1754 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 1006

(c) Salaries to be paid to police employees of the Depart-
ment shall be as follows:

Superintendent........................ $6, 500. 00

Major................................. 4, 500. 00

Captain............................... 3, 100. 00

Lieutenant............................ 2, 800. 00

Examining Physician................... 2, 500. 00

Sergeant Major........................ 2, 500. 00

First Sergeant......................... 2, 300. 00

Detective Sergeant..................... 2, 300. 00

Sergeant (Quartermaster).............. 2, 300. 00

Sergeant Mechanic..................... 2, 300. 00

Sergeant.............................. 2, 100. 00

Corporal.............................. 2, 000. 00

Officer 1/c............................ 1, 900. 00

Officer................................ 1, 800. 00

Officer Probationer, 2nd year............ 1, 700. 00

Officer Probationer, 1st year............. 1, 600. 00

Any police employee receiving the salary hereinbefore speci-
fied for the rank which he holds when this Act becomes effec-
tive shall not have such salary reduced by reason of the
establishment of the salary schedule herein prescribed for said
rank, so long as he shall remain incumbent in that rank; pro-
vided, however, that the present holder of the title of Senior
Captain shall continue to receive the salary of $3, 600. 00 which
he is now receiving.

(d) Each of said salaries shall for the purposes of this sec-
tion be deemed to be the base pay for each rank and grade.
For each three years of service up to and including twenty-
four years of service, each police employee shall receive, in
addition to the base pay received by him during each month of
every year coming after the first three years of his service, an
amount equal to 5% of said base pay for the first three years
of service, 10% for the second three years and so on until the
total of his years of service is twenty-four; and after he has
had twenty f our years of service, his longevity pay shall con-
tinue to be 40% of whatever his base pay may be thereafter,
from time to time. Such amount shall be paid to him simul-
taneously with his base pay. Any increase or decrease in base
pay, received in any month of any such three year period by
reason of promotion, demotion or otherwise shall be taken into
account in determining the longevity pay receivable by any
such employee and, in figuring the same, the 5%, or multiple
or multiples thereof, as the case may be, shall be taken of the
increased or decreased base pay. In calculating longevity pay
for those who are police employees of the Department on May
4, 1943, the years of service rendered by each such employee to