hereinbefore prescribed for the Commissioners in
the sum of five thousand dollars conditioned for
the faithful discharge of his duty as Clerk and the
safe keeping of all property placed in his hands
as aforesaid, and shall receive a salary of fift-
een hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly
and be subject to removal at the pleasure of the
Board,

Duties of
Board of Po-
lice.

Sec. 809. The duties of the Board of Police
Commissioners hereby created shall be as follows :
They shall at all times of the day and night
within the boundaries of the city of Baltimore, as
well on the water as on the land, preserve the
public peace, prevent crime, and arrest offenders,
protect the rights of persons and property, guard
the public health, preserve order at primary meet-
ings and elections, and at all public meetings and
conventions and on all public occasions and places
prevent and remove nuisances in all the streets and
highways, waters, water-courses and all other
places, provide a proper police force at every fire
for the protection of firemen and property, protect
strangers, emigrants and travellers at all steam-
boat, ferryboat and ship landings and railway
stations, see that all lawn relating to elections and
to the observance of Sunday and regarding pawn-
brokers, gambling, intemperance, lotteries and
lottery-policies, vagrants, disorderly persons and
the public health are enforced; and all to enforce
all laws, ordinances of the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore not inconsistent with the provisions
of this Act or of any law of the State, which may
be properly enforceable by a police force in case
the said "Board of Police Commissioners" shall
have reason to believe that any person or persons
within the limits of the city of Baltimore intend
leaving the city for the purpose of committing any
breach of the peace or of violating any law of the
State beyond the limits of the city, upon the
Chesapeake Bay or on any river, creek, inlet, water-
course or other place on land or water within the
State of Maryland, it shall be the duty of the said
Board of Police Commissioners to cause such per-
son or persons to be followed, and to take the most
efficient means for the suppression and prevention
of such outrage, when any such shall be attempted,