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BALTIMORE CITY.

POLICE.

AN ACT relating to the Police of the City of Baltimore. — 1817, ch. 190.

City court
authorized
to appoint
constables.
* Cb. 148.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the judges of Baltimore city court shall have and exercise
exclusively hereafter, except as is excepled in the act,* entitled,
an act relating to the city of Baltimore, the power of appointing
constables in and for that part of Baltimore county included
within the limits of the city, and removing them at pleasure ;
and the constables so appointed shall take and subscribe (he
oath of office prescribed by law, before the said court, or one of
the judges thereof, and shall also give bond for the faithful per-
formance of their duties, in such penalty and with such secu-
rity as the said court shall direct and approve, which bonds
shall be filed with and recorded by the clerk of said court,
who shall be entitled to receive from such constable, one dollar
for filing and recording each bond ; copies of which, under the
seal of office, shall be evidence in all cases whatever, and
may be sued upon by any corporation or individual interested
therein.
SEC. 2. Repealed by 1828, ch 186, sec. 2.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act relating to the PoHce of the
City of Baltimore .—1828, ch. 186.

Persons
causing or
procuring
any cock-
fighting, &c,
to be pro-
secuted.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That if any person or persons shall wilfully cause or procure
any bull-baiting, cock-fighting, or the fighting of dogs, or other
' animals, or shall wilfully and wickedly kill, cripple, or commit
an act or acts of cruelty to or upon any domestic animal within
the limits of the city of Baltimore, every such person so offend-
ing, and those aiding or abetting therein, shall be liable to pro-
secution and punishment in Baltimore city court, in the same
manner as other misdemeanors are now liable to be prosecuted
and punished ; or, at the election of the accused, the matter may
be tried before either of the judges of said court, and upon con-

Proviso.

viction may be punished as aforesaid ; Provided nevertheless,
that if the offence be committed by a slave, the court or judge
before whom the case shall be tried, may, in lieu of other pun-
ishment, order that such slave shall be punished by whipping,
not exceeding thirty-nine stripes.

Section of
former act
repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the second section of the act
of 1817, chapter 190, to which this is a supplement, be and the
same is hereby repealed ; Provided nevertheless, that all indict-
ments now pending under said act, shall be heard and de-
termined in the same manner as if the second section of the
said act had not been repealed.