312 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

tions against the owners of lots fronting on streets paved to
remove a nuisance, and the owner of such vacant lot shall have
the same rights and remedies therein given to the owners of
lots fronting on streets so paved.

ORPHANS' OOUBT.

804. Each judge of the Orphans' Court of the city of Balti-
more shall receive a per diem of three dollars for the time the
said court is in session, to be paid to them by the Register of
the city on the first day of each month.

805. The bailiff of said Orphans' Court shall receive two
dollars a day for each day's attendance upon said court.

POIICE.

806*. There is hereby established, within and for the city of
Baltimore, a Board of Police, to be called the Board of Police
of the city of Baltimore, to consist of four commissioners, as
is hereinafter provided, together with the mayor of said city for
the time being, or whosoever may be lawfully acting in that capa-
city; the said commissioners shall be citizens of the "United
States, and shall have been residents of said city for the period
of twelve months next preceding their appointment; they shall,
except as hereinafter specified,.hold their offices for four years,
and until their respective successors shall have been appointed
and qualified, and shall receive each a salary of two thousand
dollars per annum, payable quarterly; before entering on the
duties of their said office, the said commissioners and the said
mayor shall take and subscribe before the judge of the Superior
Court of Baltimore city, or the clerk thereof, the oath or affirm-
ation prescribed by the fourth section of the first article of
the Constitution, and shall also take and subscribe before the
same judge or clerk, the further oath or affirmation, that in any
and every appointment or removal to be by them made to or
from the police force created and to be organized by them under
this article, they will in no case, and under no pretext, appoint
or remove any policeman, or officer of police, or other person
under them, for or on account of the political opinion of such police-
man, officer, or other person, or for any other cause or reason
than the fitness or unfitness of such person, in the best judg-
ment of the said mayor or commissioners, for the place to which
he shall be appointed, or from which he shall be removed; and