50 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

The Act of June 13, 1861, ch. 46, adds the following:

50. The said board of police are further authorized, whenever
in their judgment the public peace and tranquility may require,
to order and cause to be effected the temporary closing of any and
all bar-rooms, bars, drinking-houses and liquor shops in the city
of Baltimore, and to forbid the selling or furnishing of liquors
thereat.

51. Any proprietor or keeper of any such drinking place or
places as are enumerated in the last preceding section, who shall
refuse or fail to obey any order of said Board of Police passed in
pursuance thereof, or who shall sell or furnish liquor from such
place or places during such period as said board shall so forbid,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to indictment
therefor, and shall further be subject to a penalty of not less
than one hundred and fifty dollars for every such offense, to be
recovered by civil proceeding, in the name of the State, for the
use of the said board.

TAXES AND LOANS.

The Act of June U, 1861, ch. 75, repeals section 871, and enacts as follows:

52. The mayor and city council of Baltimore, are hereby
authorized and empowered to increase, in case they shall deem
it necessary so to do, the public debt of said city, to the ex-
tent of not more than one million five hundred thousand dol-
lars beyond the amount now authorized by law; and to issue for
said increased debt the bonds or notes or other evidences of
debt of said city.

53. The mayor and city council of Baltimore shall create a
sinking fund to meet the liabilities to be incurred under the
first section of this law, and may also levy upon the assessable
property of the city of Baltimore from time to time such sum or
sums as may be necessary to provide therefor, and for the pay-
ment of the principal and interest of the liabilities to be incurred
under this act, and may pass all ordinances necessary to carry
out the purposes of the same.