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be liable respectively to the penalties following for such refusal,
to be recovered by the said Board of Police, by civil action, in
the name of the State, that is to say: the said sheriff to a
penalty of five thousand dollars, any other peace officer afore-
said to a penalty of five hundred dollars, and any private citizen
to a penalty of one hundred and fifty dollars; and each and
every person so refusing shall be liable, moreover, to indictment,
and such punishment for such refusal as is by law already or
may hereafter be provided.

211*. Any officer or person having control, command, or keep-
ing of the jail of Baltimore city, who shall refuse to receive or
detain, and any officer of the corporation of said city who shall
prevent or forbid the reception or detention in such jail of any
person so committed by said judges, or any of them, according
to the exigency of such commitment, shall be liable to a penalty
of one thousand dollars for every such offence, recoverable by
said Board of Police, by civil action, in the name of the State,
and likewise to imprisonment for not less than sixty days, upon
conviction thereof in any criminal court of competent jurisdic-
tion; Provided, however, that nothing contained in this article
shall be construed to impair or destroy the authority of the said
Board of Police under the provisions of this article constituting
the same, and prescribing their powers and duties, and especially
under the provisions of this article authorizing them to control
and command all conservators of the peace on the occasions and
in the manner therein provided.

212*. The said Board of Police shall likewise appoint for every
election, two clerks for each election precinct, who shall re-
spectively discharge the duties by law belonging or hereafter
to be assigned to clerks, of election, and who shall receive two
dollars per diem each for their services as such; the said judges
of election shall receive two dollars per diem each for their
services.; the compensation of such judges and clerks, and all
expenses to be incurred by the said Judges under this article, or
otherwise according to law, as well as all expenses to be incurred
by said Board of Police in the division of the wards into pre-
cincts as aforesaid, and in recording and publishing the same,
or otherwise under this article, or in the execution thereof, to be
paid by and recoverable from the mayor and city council of
Baltimore, and to be provided for by said mayor and council
by taxation or otherwise.