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the issuing of the same, and shall not be receivable in payment
of city taxes, earlier than those for the year in which they shall
so be payable.

819*. Any officer or servant of the mayor and city council of
Baltimore, or other person whatsoever, who shall forcibly resist
or obstruct the execution or enforcement of any of the pro-
visions of this article, providing a permanent police for the city
of Baltimore, or relating to the same, or who shall disburse any
money in violation thereof, or who shall hinder or obstruct the
organization of said Board of Police or the police force herein-
before provided to be organized, or who shall maintain or con-
trol, or attempt to maintain or control, the existing police force
of said city, or any part thereof, or any other police force under
the ordinances hereinbefore repealed, except as herein provided,
shall be liable to a penalty of one thousand dollars for each and
every such offence, recoverable by the board by action at law in
the name of the State, and shall forever thereafter be disqualified
from holding or exercising any office or employment whatsoever,
under the mayor and city council of Baltimore, or under this
article; Provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be
construed to interfere with the punishment, under any existing
or any future law of this State, of any criminal offence which
shall be committed by the said parties, in or about the resistance,
obstruction, hindrance, conspiracy, combination or disbursement
aforesaid.

820*. The said board shall have the power, and it shall be their
duty, from time to time, to select and employ from among the
duly elected and qualified justices of the peace for the city of
Baltimore, such justice or justices as may be required, and as
they may deem proper, to sit at the respective station houses,
for the hearing of such charges as may be brought against per-
sons arrested and carried to the said station houses, and shall
have full power to pay to him or them such moderate compen-
sation as they may judge fit, and to remove and change the said
justices in their discretion; Provided, however, that nothing in
this section shall be construed to prohibit the said justices from
recovering from the parties so arrested, such fees as they may be
by law entitled to receive for their services; and it shall be the
duty of the officers and policemen appointed under this article,
to execute any warrants or commitments which the justices
employed as aforesaid may issue, to them, or any of them,
directed.

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