42 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

parks, " approved June the fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty,
and an ordinance of the said mayor and city council, " to provide
for a public park or parks, " approved July the twenty-first, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty, are hereby confirmed, and all acts done
or which may be hereafter done by the said mayor and city
council, or other officer of said city, or by the park commission
acting under the provisions of said resolution and ordinance,
shall have the same effect as if the said mayor and city council,
prior to the passage of the said resolution and ordinance, had
been expressly empowered by an act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, to enact a resolution and ordinance, in the precise
terms of the said resolution and ordinance, and to provide for
carrying the same into effect; but nothing herein is to affect
any right whatsoever of the Green Spring Avenue Company.

37. The park commission, for the time being, appointed under
the provisions of said resolution and ordinance, or any resolu-
tion or ordinance supplementary thereto, shall have power, from
time to time, to make such rules and regulations for the govern-
ment and the preservation of order within the said parks as they
may deem expedient, declaring what fines, not exceeding in any
one case one hundred dollars, shall be imposed for breaches of
said rules and regulations, to be recoverable in the name of the
mayor and city council of Baltimore, as small debts are recover-
able before a justice of the peace of the said city, and appro-
priated to the purposes of said parks.

38. The several members of the said park commission shall
have the powers of a conservator of the peace within the limits
of the said parks.

39. The Board of Police of the said city are authorized, on
the requisition of the park commission, to detail, from time to
time, such of the regular police force of said city, as the said
board may deem necessary for the preservation of order within
the said parks, according to the regulations aforesaid, and under
the direction of said board; which detailed force shall have the
same power in the premises, that the police of the city have as
conservators of the peace.