194 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

to the eaid court, and preserved and recorded by the clerk
thereof.

219*. No grand jury sitting at the time of any election in said
city, or assembling next thereafter, shall be discharged by the
said court, until they have made written presentment, on their
oaths, to the said court that they have diligently, and to the best
of their knowledge and ability, examined such judges of elec-
tion. as may have come before them, and inquired into and acted
upon all complaints concerning alleged violations of the Consti-
tution and laws touching elections at the election next pre-
ceding, and all matters concerning the same, which have come
to their knowledge, or concerning which they have had any
information or reasonable ground for inquiry.

220*. It shall further be the duty of the said grand juries to
make presentment to said court, on their said adjournment, of
all judges of election who shall have failed to appear before or
certify to them as aforesaid, who shall be at once arrested and
held to bail to answer at the ensuing term of said court; and it
shall be th,e duty of the State's Attorney immediately to apply
for, and of the court to issue a bench warrant for such arrest,
and the State's Attorney shall likewise lay the said presentment
or presentments before the next grand jury, on the first day of
their session, with the proper indictments thereupon, which it
shall be the duty of the said grand jury to find on the said pre-
sentments ; and the said court shall give the provisions of this
article in relation to elections in charge to each and every grand
jury which shall be in session at the time of any election held
in. said city, or next thereafter; and any failure so to do, and any
neglect on the part of the judge of said court or of the State's
Attorney for said city to perform the duties by this section
imposed on them respectively, shall be, and the same are hereby
declared to be acts of criminal misbehavior in office on the part
of said judge and State's Attorney respectively.

221*. Any judge of election who shall wilfully neglect, or shall
when called on wilfully decline or refuse to exercise the power
conferred on him by thia article for preserving the peace on
election days, and securing the tranquillity and freedom of elec-
tions, and the safety and uninterrupted access of the voters to
the ballot boxes, shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty
of five hundred dollars, recoverable by civil action, by said Board
of Police, in the name of the State.