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officers so notified shall be bound respectively to give, under a
penalty of five hundred dollars each, to be recovered by action
at law, instituted by said board, in the name of the State, for
failure to attend as required, and for each and every failure to
obey the lawful orders of said board then and thereafter; and
from and after the first meeting aforesaid, the whole then exist-
ing police force in the city of Baltimore, both officers and men,
shall pass under the exclusive management and control of the
said board, and be subject to no other control, and entitled to
receive neither orders nor pay (except arrearages then due) from
any other authority, and shall so continue, subject, however, to
removal or suspension, at the discretion of said board, and with
the power in said board to fill vacancies, until the said board
shall publicly declare that the organization of the police force
created by this article is complete; upon such public declaration,
and from the time thereof, all ordinances of the mayor and city
council of Baltimore are hereby annulled and declared void, BO
far as they conflict with this article, or assume or confer upon
the mayor, or any other person or persons, the power to appoint,
dismiss, or in any way or to any extent employ or control any
police force organized or to be organized under such ordinances,
or any of them; and from and after such public declaration as
aforesaid, the police force organized or which may be organized
under such ordinances, or any of them, shall cease to exist, and
all its functions and powers be at an end.

818*. It shall be the duty of the said board, with all convenient
speed, after qualifying as aforesaid, and annually thenceforward,
to estimate what sum of money will be necessary for each cur-
rent fiscal year, to enable them to discharge the duties hereby
imposed on them, and they shall forthwith certify the same to
the mayor and city council of Baltimore, who are hereby re-
quired, without delay, specifically to assess and levy such amount
as shall be sufficient to raise the same, clear of all expenses and
discounts, upon all the assessable property in the. city of Balti-
more, and to cause the same to be collected as all other city
taxes; and it is hereby made the duty of the collector of the
city of Baltimore, and he is required to collect said tax, and no
bill of city taxes other than for interest on the city funded debt,
except bills of city taxes payable before the year eighteen hun-
dred and sixty, shall be demandable or recoverable from any
person, by the mayor and city council of Baltimore, unless the
same shall contain the proper charge for such tax, to be denomi-
nated the police tax; and the said Board of Police, upon and