190 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

208*. The said judges, or a majority of them in each precinct,
shall have power, and are hereby directed, to select the places
of voting in and for their respective precincts, and to take care
that the same be as near the centre of such precincts as may be,
and upon an open, public street, in a free, accessible and conve-
nient location, and that no tavern, liquor store, grog-shop, or
other place at which liquor shall usually, or at the time, be sold,
be by them taken or used as a place of voting; and they shall
take all such measures, whether by the erect'ion of barriers, or
establishing limits around the polls or otherwise, as may be
necessary and proper in their judgment, to prevent crowding at
or near the polls, or the interruption of voters in approaching
ur returning from the same; and it shall be their duty, by proper
precautions in advance and by such regulations and arrange-
ments beforehand, or on the day of election, as may be suitable,
to secure the peaceful conduct of such elections as may be held
during their official terms, and the protection of the voters and
the ballot-boxes from violence and fraud.

209*. In order to enable the judges to discharge the duties
imposed on them by this article, or any other law, they, and
each of them, shall have full power and authority upon every
day of election, and until they shall have made up the return of
the votes polled, to commit to the jail of Baltimore city, upon
their warrants respectively, all persons who shall, within their
respective precincts, violate, or attempt to violate, any of the
provisions of this article, or any section thereof, or of any other
law touching elections now existing, or hereafter to be enacted,
and they are authorized to call upon the sheriff of Baltimore
and his deputies, and all constables, policemen or other peace-
officers, to serve the said warrants; and they are further author-
ized and directed at the times and for the periods aforesaid, to
call upon the said sheriff and his deputies and other officers last
above mentioned as well as all private citizens, and if need be to
summon the posse comitatus to aid them in suppressing riot,
violence, disturbance and disorder, and in preserving the public
peace, protecting the.mselves and other voters, and securing the
quiet and freedom of the election and the safety of the ballots
and ballot boxes.

210*. Any person or persons whom the said judges or any of
them may so summon, or on whom they may so call to execute
the said warrants, or aid them respectively, as hereinbefore pro-
vided, and who shall refuse to obey such call or summons, shall