EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 117.

AN ACT to add additional sections to Article 2 of the Code of

Public Local Laws, title "Anne Arundel County," under a

new sub-title "Eastport," to follow Section 130, and to be

called Section 130A, 130B and 130C, providing for the ap-

pointment of police officers for Eastport in Anne Arundel

County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Genera! Assembly of Mary-

Anne Arun-

land, That three additional sections be and the same are hereby

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added to Article 2 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Anne

Arundel County," under a new sub-title "Eastport," and to

Eastport.

come in immediately after Section 130 of said Article, and to

be known and designated as Sections 130A, 130B and 130C.

130A. The County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County

Appointment

shall appoint one policeman for the protection of persons and

of police
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property in Anne Arundel County : such policeman shall be sta-

tioned at Eastport in the Second Election District of said

county. The appointment shall be made immediately after the

passage of this Act, and the person so appointed shall serve

until the first day of January, 1906, and until his

successor is duly appointed, and thereafter such ap-

poiniment shall be made every two years thereafter on the

first day of January, or as soon thereafter as possible. The said

Commissioners shall have power to suspend such policeman

without pay, or remove him at pleasure, and to appoint other

officers in the place of any removed or suspended. The officer

so appointed shall be subject to all and the same provisions,

regulations and rules as laid down and contained in Chapter

643 of the Acts of Assembly of 1902.

130B. It shall be the duty of said policeman, at all times, to

Duties of said

preserve the public peace, prevent crimes being committed, pro-

policeman.

tect the rights of persons and property, to arrest all offenders

against the laws of the State and to take such offenders before

a justice of the peace in the City of Annapolis, of said county,

and to this end he shall have all the powers and authority

of county constables; and the County Commissioners shall not

appoint any constable to act in such precinct of the Second Elec-

tion District wherein said Eastport is located, and such officer

so appointed shall perform all the duties that may be required

of him as a county constable, and shall receive no other fee or

pay other than his monthly salary for doing criminal work.

130C. The policeman so appointed shall be paid fifty dollars

Salary.

per month, and the County Commissioners in making the annual

levy shall provide for the pay of the said officer monthly. It

shall be the duty of said Commissioners to arm and equip said

officer add to make such rules and regulations for his proper

conduct and discipline, and immediately after the passage of