ART. 4. ] CITY OF BALTIMORE. 49

with the provisions of this section, and the application therefor
shall be heard and decided by the court; one week's notice of
the application shall be given, and the respondent or respondents
shall have the right to answer within the week; and if testimony
be needed on either side, the same shall be taken within ten days
after the answer is filed, or the said week shall have expired;
from the decision of the Superior Court in the premises, either
party may appeal within ten days, and it shall be the duty of the
clerk to send up the record immediately, and the appeal shall be
heard by the Court of Appeals, if then in session, and if not in
session at the next term; in both courts the case shall be taken
up and tried in preference to all others. .

48. The board shall cause a full journal of their proceedings
to be kept, and shall also cause all their receipts and disburse-
ments of moneys to be faithfully entered in books to be provided
for the purpose; and said journal and all said books, and all other
documents in the possession of said board, shall always be open
to inspection by the General Assembly of Maryland, or any com-
mittee appointed by it for that purpose, and by the city council
of Baltimore, or any committee appointed by it for that pur-
pose; it shall be the duty of the board to report to the General
Assembly at each regular session, or as it may hereafter direct,
the number and expense of the police force employed by them
under this article, and all such other matters as may be of public
interest in connection with the duties assigned to them by this
article; and a like report shall be made to the mayor and city
council of Baltimore, at each annual 'session of the said city
council.

The Act of May 4, 1861, oh. 6, adds the following:

49. The Board of Police of the city of Baltimore shall have
and may exercise in said city all the authority and power con-
ferred on a single constable and justice of the peace of this State,
in the several counties respectively, by the provisions of the six-
ty-sixth article of the Code of General Laws of Maryland in re-
gard to free negroes and mulattoes.