HERBERT R. O'CONOR., GOVERNOR. 523

CHAPTER 514.
(House Bill 181)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
875 of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land and Baltimore City Charter (1938 Edition), title
"Baltimore City", sub-title "Police Commissioner", and to
repeal Section 880 of said Article, relating to the officers
and employees of the Police Department of Baltimore City.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 875 of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland and Baltimore City Charter (1938 Edition),
title "Baltimore City", sub-title "Police Commissioner", be and
it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

875. (a) The Police Commissioner shall have the power to
remove any police officer or officer of police, or any detective,
for any violation of any rule or regulation which he may make
and promulgate to the said police force, officers of police or
any detective. Said police force shall consist of five inspectors
of police, one to be designated from time to time by the Police
Commissioner as chief inspector, and to be assigned to have
charge of said police force, and the others to be assigned to
such duties as the Commissioner may from time to time direct
with full power to the said Commissioner to change such chief
inspector at any time when he may desire to do so and appoint
another one of the inspectors to the duties of said chief in-
spector; fourteen (14) captains; not more than thirty-eight
(38) lieutenants, in addition to the detective lieutenants here-
inafter provided for; one (1) lieutenant, Bureau of Identifica-
tion; one (1) lieutenant and one (1) machinist, Radio Divi-
sion; one hundred and eighty-five (185) squad sergeants, of
whom no more than twenty-four (24) may, in the discretion of
the Police Commissioner, be designated as second lieutenants,
in addition to the detective sergeants hereinafter provided for,
each of whom shall be assigned from time to time to such
duties as the said Commissioner may direct; seventy-eight
(78) detectives, twenty-five (25) of whom shall rank as
detective-lieutenants, twenty-eight (28) as detective sergeants
and twenty-five (25) as detective patrolmen, each of whom
shall perform such duties as members of the detective force
as the said Commissioner may from time to time direct;
not more than thirteen hundred and eighty-eight (1, 388)
patrolmen; in addition to the detective patrolmen herein-
before provided for, eight (8) policewomen; one (1) Traffic
Engineer; five (5) investigators; one (1) draftsman, and one
(1) clerk, Traffic Bureau; one (1) supervisor, Taxicab Bureau;