PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 539

to the firm of Patrick J. McCormick and Philip J. Stover,
contractors, trading as Mr. Cormick and Company, which
firm contracted with the State Roads Commission of the
State of Maryland for the construction of such highway, and
was afterwards adjudicated bankrupt in the District Court of
the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 377.

AN ACT to repeal section 742 of Article 4 of the Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws of Maryland, entitled "City of Baltimore,"
sub-title "Police Commissioners," as the same was amended
by Chapter 123 of the Acts of 1898, and further amended
by Chapter 129 of the Acts of 1906, and further amended
by Chapter 432 of the Acts of 1908, and to re-enact the
said section with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 742 of Article 4 of the Code of Public
Local-Laws of Maryland, entitled "City of Baltimore," sub-title
"Police Commissioners," as the same was amended by Chapter
123 of the Acts of 1898, and as the said section 742 was fur-
ther amended by Chapter 129 of the Acts of 1906, and further
amended by Chapter 432 of the Acts of 1908, be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to
read as follows:

SEC. 742. The said Board of Police Commissioners shall
select some suitable person to act as secretary to the board,
whose duty it shall be to keep minutes of the proceedings of
the board, take charge, by direction of the board, of all prop-
erty seized or found by the police or detectives, and to perform,
all clerical and proper duties required of him by said board,
and it shall be the further duty of said secretary to prepare
forms of all poll books and election returns, warrants of arrests
and commitments to be used by judges of election for all elec-
tions held in Baltimore City; to superintend carefully the
printing thereof, and to perform all other clerical duties
devolved upon said board by law in connection with all the elec-
tions held in said city as may be required of him by said board;
said secretary shall enter into bond to the State of Maryland in.