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payable monthly; and the said Commissioner is also hereby authorized to
employ four assistants to the secretary of the Commissioner at the salary
of two thousand dollars ($2,000) each, per annum, payable monthly.

P. L. L. (1860). Art. 4, sec. 808. 1860, ch. 7. 1867, ch. 367 1890, ch. 574
P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 725.

744. The duties of the Police Commissioner hereby created shall be
as follows: He shall at all times of the day and night, within the boun-
daries of the City of Baltimore, as well on the water as on the land,
preserve the public peace, prevent crime and arrest offenders, protect the
rights of persons and property, guard the public health, preserve order at
primary meetings and elections, and at all public meetings and conven-
tions and on all public occasions and places, prevent and remove nuisances
in all the streets and highways, waters and water-courses, and all other
places, provide a proper police force at every fire for the protection of
firemen and property, protect strangers, emigrants and travelers at all
steamboat, ferry-boat and ship landings and railway stations, see that all
laws relating to elections and to the observance of Sunday, and regarding
pawnbrokers, gambling, intemperance, lotteries and lottery policies, va-
grants, disorderly persons and the public health are enforced, and also
to enforce all laws, ordinances of the Mayor and Citv Council of Balti-
more, not inconsistent with the provisions of this sub-division of this
Article, or of any law of the State which may be properly enforceable by
a police force; and in case the Police Commissioner shall have reason to
believe that any person within the limits of the City of Baltimore intends
leaving the city for the purpose of committing any breach of the peace,
or of violating any law of the State beyond the limits of the city, upon
the Chesapeake bay or on any river, creek, inlet, water-course, or at any
other place on land or water within the State of Maryland, it shall be the
duty of the said Police Commissioner to cause such person to be followed,
and to take the most effectual means for the suppression and prevention
of such outrage, when any such shall be attempted, and to cause the arrest
of all such offenders; provided, however, that if any crime be actually
committed by such person, the offender shall be delivered to the proper
jurisdiction for trial and punishment; any person charged with the com-
mission of crime in the City of Baltimore and against whom criminal
process shall have issued, may be arrested upon the same in any part of
the State by the police force created under this sub-division of this Article,
under such rules and regulations as the Police Commissioner may adopt;
and the said Commissioner shall have power to summon witnesses before
him and to administer oaths or affirmations to such witnesses whenever,
in the judgment of the said Commissioner, it may be necessary for the
effectual discharge of his duties under this sub-division of this Article;
and any person failing to appear in answer to said summons, or refusing
to testify, shall be subject to a penalty of not less than twenty-five nor
more than fifty dollars, to be recovered by civil action in the name of the
State, to the use of the said Commissioner, or by indictment in the Crim-