SOMERSET COUNTY. 4389

and Council, to be known as the "City Solicitor," and who shall be
confirmed as provided in the previous section. He shall be a member of
the bar of the Circuit Court for Somerset County, and who has resided
in and practiced his profession for not less than three years immediately
preceding his appointment in the City of Crisfield, and he shall receive
such compensation as may be agreed upon. The City Solicitor shall be
the legal adviser of the Mayor and Council of Crisfield, and shall have
general supervision and direction of all legal business of the city. He shall
have charge of the preparation and trial of all suits, actions and proceed-
ings of every kind to which the city shall be a party in any court, State
or Federal, and he shall personally participate in the trial of all such suits
in any courts of the State or Federal courts, and all such suits in other
courts which the Mayor may request him in writing to try, and shall
discharge such other duties as may from time to time be prescribed by
ordinance not inconsistent with this Act, and he may receive extra com-
pensation for any extra and special services and for suits in the State or
Federal courts.

1910, ch. 529, sec. 70 (p. 1085).

66. The policemen and street supervisors before entering upon the
duties of their office shall each take and subscribe before the Mayor or a
Justice of the Peace of Somerset County residing in said city an oath to
well and faithfully, without partiality or prejudice, perform the duties of
his office in all things according to the laws of the State and the ordinance
of said city, and to enforce said laws and said ordinance to the best of his
ability, which oath shall be certified to by the Mayor or justice of the
peace before whom it is taken, and filed with the clerk of the Council,
and be recorded in the minutes of said Council, and the original certificate
safely kept. The original certificate, the record thereof or a certified copy
of the same under the hand of said clerk and the seal of the Mayor and
Council, shall be evidence in any court in the State.

1910, ch. 529, sec. 71 (p. 1085). 1916, ch. 458, sec. 71.

67. The said policemen so appointed shall have all the powers of con-
stables of Somerset County, as to all cases to be tried before a Justice of
the Peace, in the City of Crisfield, and as to all violations of the law, or
ordinances, within said City. The Mayor or in his absence or disability,
the President of the Council may on emergency, appoint special police-
men, with all the powers of the regular policeman for a term not exceed-
ing forty-eight hours, when deemed necessary, at a reasonable compensa-
tion to be fixed at the time of appointment by the Mayor or person appoint-
ing. The said regular policeman shall be entitled to have taxed in each
cause for their services, by the Justice of the Peace, the same fees as con-
stables are entitled to receive for same services, which fees shall be retained
by the Justice of the Peace, reported and turned over to the Clerk of the
Council, for deposit to the credit of the City and to be disposed of by
the Mayor and Council, as they may deem best.