NIGHT WATCH.

1697

order the bill, or any other papers upon which such injunction
shall be granted, wheresoever the same may be filed, to be pro-
duced before him for that purpose, any thing in any law or rule
of court to the contrary notwithstanding ; and on hearing any
motion to dissolve an injunction so granted, if the chancellor or
judge shall be satisfied, that the same was obtained through
misrepresentation, and for delay, he shall decree that the party,
who so obtained the same, shall pay interest to the mortgagee,
or to the party claiming under him, at the rate of ten per cent,
per annum on the amount of the mortgage debt, from the time
of granting the injunction until the same shall be dissolved,
and shall enforce the execution of such decree, in such manner
as is authorized by law in cases of final decrees ; and before
any injunction shall be granted as aforesaid, the chancellor or
judge, granting the same, shall require the complainant or com-
plainants, or some person on his, her or their behalf, with at
least two good securities, to be approved of by the said chan-
cellor or judge, to execute to the mortgagee, or the persons
claiming or acting under him, and file in court, a bond, in such
penalty as the said chancellor or judge shall prescribe, condi-
tioned to obey, abide, perform and fulfil, such decree and order
as shall be made in the premises, upon which bond the said
mortgagee, or his assigns, shall be entitled to recover all such
debt, damages, interest and costs, as shall be decreed to be paid
on dissolving the injunction.

NIGHT WATCH.
AN ACT for the establishment and regulation of a Night Watch, and the
erection of Lamps, in Baltimore Town, in Baltimore County. — 1784,
ch. 69.
Made perpetual by 1796, ch. 68; liable to such modification as the cor-
poration or legislature shall enact.

WHEREAS, the ordering and regulating a watch, and enlight-
ening the streets, lanes and alleys, in the night time, in Balti-
more town, in Baltimore county, is of very great importance
for the preservation of the persons and properties of the inhabi-
tants thereof, and very necessary to prevent fires, burglaries!
and other outrages and disorders,

Preamble.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the commissioners of Baltimore town, or a major part of
them, are hereby authorized and directed to meet at such times
and places as they shall think proper, and may, from time to
time, during the continuance of this act, contract with fit and
proper persons to erect, put up and fix, any number of lamps,
in such parts and places in the said town, as to them shall seem
meet and expedient, and to contract with any person or persons
for the lighting, trimming, snuffing, supply ing, maintaining, and
repairing them, and shall likewise from time to time order, ap-

Commis-
sioners to
meet, &c.