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quelling riot, disorders and disturbances of the peace within the limits
of said city, and shall take into custody all persons so offending against
the public peace, and shall have the authority to take suitable and suffi-
cient bail for the appearance before said court of any person charged with
an offense within the jurisdiction of said court; and it shall be his duty
to arrest all persons who shall obstruct or interfere with him in the execu-
tion of the duties of his office or who shall be guilty of disorderly conduct
or any disturbance whatever. He shall give such bond for the faithful
performance of his duty, and perform such other duties and possess such
other powers, rights and authority, in addition to those herein provided,
as the Mayor and City Council may require and confer upon him, not
inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this State, and the provi-
sions of this Act. In the case of absence, sickness or inability to act of the
Chief of Police, the said Police and Fire Commissioner shall have the
power, and it shall be his duty to designate some other member of said
Police Department as Acting Chief of Police during the period of such
absence, sickness or inability of said Chief of Police.

(g) The Chief of the Fire Department shall be charged with the duty
of superintending, directing the extinguishment of fires, and preservation
and safe-keeping of all fire engines, hose and other apparatus used in
connection therewith; and it is hereby made his duty to keep away from
the vicinity of any fire, all idle and suspicious and disorderly persons
and to compel all officers of the city and all other persons to aid in the
extinguishment of fire and the preservation of property exposed to danger
thereafter and in preventing goods from being stolen and generally to
carry out and enforce such regulations for the prevention and extinguish-
ment of fire as may be by said Mayor and City Council deemed expedient.

1922, ch. 96. sec. 37.

37. The Mayor and City Council of Cumberland, Maryland, are here-
by authorized and empowered to retire from, the city police force, city
policemen when they arrive at the age of sixty-five years, and if said
policeman so retired shall have served on said police force for twenty
years next preceding said retirement, he shall be entitled to receive there-
after from said City of Cumberland the sum of forty dollars per month
during his life.

1922, ch. 96, sec. 38.

38. The Police and Fire Commissioner, with the sanction of the Mayor
and City Council, shall have power to organize the Fire Department of
the City of Cumberland on the basis of a two-platoon system, with the
hours of duty of each of said platoons to be prescribed by the Mayor and
City Council, who shall have the power to prescribe the rules and regula-
tions for the shifting of said platoons.