JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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captain and two lietenants, two turnkeys, and such

Consist of

number of sergeants as said Board of Police, in their

judgment, may deem necessary for each police

district im the city, and five hundred men ; which

force may be increased at any time, if, in the opinion

of the board, the public peace shall require, to any

number and for such period of time as they may

think proper, by the appointment of special police-

Special police-
men

men, who shall receive the sum of two dollars and

fifty cents per day for their service; the period of

appointment in the regular police force shall be four

years, unless sooner removed for official misconduct;

and the qualification for the position of officer or

police or policeman or detective shall be good moral

character, sobriety, citizenship of the United States,

ability to read and write, physical strength and

Qualification.

courage. No person who has been convicted and

sentenced to the penitentiary shall be eligible to the

position of officer of police, policeman, detective or

special policeman. The pay of an ordinary policeman

shall be eighteen dollars per week, payable semi-

monthly, and in case the board shall appoint detective

policemen, and they are hereby authorized and em-

powered to do so if they think fit, to the number of

Pay of men

ten, said detectives shall receive each the sum of

twenty-five dollars per week, payable semi-monthly;

and they shall not be allowed to follow any business

or profession, but shall devote their whole time to

the discharge of their duty as detectives. The officers

of police shall be paid semi-monthly, and their pay

shall be as follows : the Marshal shall receive twenty-

five hundred dollars per annum ; the Deputy

Marshal shall receive two thousand dollars per

annum; each Captain twenty-two dollars-per week;

Officers

each Lieutenant twenty dollars per week; each

Sergeant nineteen dollars per week, and each Turn-

key fifteen dollars per week, the pay herein provided

for the police of officers, policeman and detectives

shall continue as long: as they hold a commission or

until a change shall be made by act of the General

Assembly of Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

In force.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved, 12th March, 1874,