1166 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 483

907 of the Acts of 1947, changing the designation of
linesmen.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 875 (a) of Article 4 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland and Baltimore City Charter (1938
Edition), title "Baltimore City",. sub-title "Police Com-
missioner", as said section was amended by Chapter 907
of the Acts of 1947, be and it is hereby repealed and re-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 six inspectors of police, - one to be
designated from time to time by the Police Commissioner
as chief inspector, and 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 inspector; fifteen (15) captains; not more than
thirty-nine (39) lieutenants in addition to the detective
lieutenants hereinafter provided for; one (1) lieutenant,
Bureau of Identification; two (2) lieutenants and one (1)
machinist, Radio Division; one hundred and ninety-seven
(197) 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 detec-
tive 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 sixteen hundred (1, 600) patrol-
men; in addition to the detective patrolmen hereinbefore
provided for, one policewoman with the rank of sergeant
and thirteen (13) other policewomen; one (1) Traffic
Engineer; five (5) investigators; one (1) draftsman, and
one (1) clerk, Traffic Bureau; one (1) supervisor, Taxi-
cab Bureau; eighteen (18) matrons; one (1) male stenog-
rapher; one (1) lineman designated as assistant fore-
man; one (1) lineman designated as foreman and