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and city council of Baltimore shall hereafter conflict or inter-
fere with the powers or the exercise of the powers of the Board
of Police of the city of Baltimore hereinafter created; nor shall
the said city, or any officer or agent of the corporation of said
city, or of the mayor thereof, in any manner impede, obstruct,
hinder or interfere with the said Board of Police, or any officer,
agent or servant thereof or thereunder.

33. The mayor and city council shall have power to pass all
ordinances necessary to give effect and operation to all the
powers vested in the corporation of the city of Baltimore, but the
ordinances of the said corporation shall be in no wise obligatory
upon the person's of non-residents of said city, unless in cases of
intentional violation of ordinances previously promulgated.

ALMS-HOUSE.

34. There shall be annually appointed seven trustees of the
poor of Baltimore city and county, four of whom shall be resi-
dents in the city of Baltimore, and shall be appointed by the
mayor and city council, in the same manner as officers under
the corporation are appointed, and the other three shall be
residents of Baltimore county, and shall be appointed by the
county commissioners of said county; and all vacancies that
shall occur shall bo filled by appointments to be made in the same
manner.

35. The trustees so appointed, and their successors, are hereby
declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name, style
and title of "The Trustees for the Poor of Baltimore city and
county," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and
shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, and to purchase, hold,
use or sell, convey and deliver all kinds of lands, tenements,
estates, property and effects, real,'personal and mixed.

36. They may have and use a common seal, and the same at
their pleasure alter or renew.

37. They shall each, before entering upon the duties of his
office, before some judge or justice of the peace, take and sub-
scribe an oath that he will diligently and faithfully execute the
duties and trusts, and exercise the powers committed to and
vested in him as trustee for the poor of Baltimore city and
county, according to the best of his skill and judgment.