222 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 136

Local Laws of Maryland and Baltimore City Charter (1938
Edition), title "Baltimore City", sub-title "Police Commis-
sioner", 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Acts of 1947, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with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 the 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 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
(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 Com-
missioner 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 sixteen hundred
(1, 600) patrolmen; 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; twenty-six (26) matrons; one (1) male sten-
ographer; one (1) lineman designated as superintendent;
one (1) lineman designated as foreman and thirteen (13)
linemen, Telephone and Signal Division; eighteen (18)
charwomen; three (3) hostlers; thirty-eight (38) chauffeurs;
one (1) chief engineer, two (2) engineers and three (3)
firemen, Marine Division; one (1) foreman, such number
of maintenance men and laborers as may in the judgment
of the Commissioner be necessary; one (1) chief machinist;