and as recoverable against it as if the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore had themselves issued
the same, and the Mayor and City Council of Bal-
timore shall have no power or authority to levy or
collect any tax, or appropriate any money for the
payment of any police force other than to be
organized and employed under this Act, and no
officer or other employee of the said Mayor and
City Council shall disburse any money therefor,
and the power of the said Mayor and City Council
to levy and collect taxes, and appropriate and dis-
burse money for the payment of the Police force,
to be organized and employed under this Act,
shall be exercised as herein directed and not other-
wise; and in case the amount so as aforesaid to be
estimated by the said Board shall from any cause
prove insufficient for the necessary expenses for the
current year, the said Board are hereby authorized
and empowered to issue certificates, and raise
money therefrom, as hereinbefore provided, to
meet the said exigency; provided, however, that
no additional issue shall exceed the sum of fifty
thousand dollars, in any one year, and that the
amount thereof shall be added to the estimate
assessment and levy for the year next ensuing,
and that said certificates shall not be made payable
at an earlier day than twelve months from the date
of their issue, but may be receivable in payment of
city taxes at any time they may be so presented.

Duty of the
Sheriff.

Sec. 813. It shall be the duty of the Sheriff of
Baltimore City, of Baltimore, whenever called on
for that purpose by said Board, to act under their
control for the preservation of the public peace
and quiet, and if ordered by them so to do, he
shall summon the posse comitatus for that par-
pose, and hold and employ such posse, subject to
their discretion in case the said Board shall deem
it necessary they shall call out such military force
lawfully organized or existing in said city as they
may see fit, to aid them in preventing threatened
disorder or opposition to the laws, or in suppress-
ing insurrection, riot or disorder on election days,
and at all other times, and it shall be the duty of
said military force so called out to obey such or-
ders as may be given them by said Board; when-
ever the exigency or circumstances may in their