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order at primary meetings and elections, and at all
public meetings and conventions and on all public
occasions and places prevent and remove nuisances
in all the streets and highways, waters, water-courses
and all other places, provide a proper police force
at every fire for the protection of firemen and prop-
erty, protect strangers, emigrants and travellers at
all steamboat, ferryboat and ship landings and rail-
way stations, see that all laws relating to elections
and to the observance of Sunday and regarding
pawnbrokers, gambling, intemperance, lotteries and
lottery-policies, vagrants, disorderly persons and
the public health are enforced; and all to enforce
all laws, ordinances of the mayor and city coun-
cil of Baltimore not inconsistent with the provi-
sions of this act or of any law of the state, which,
may be properly enforceable by a police force in
case the said board of police commissioners shall
have reason to believe that any person or persons
within the limits of the city of Baltimore intend
leaving the city for the purpose of committing any
breach of the peace or of violating any law of the
state beyond the limits of the city, upon the Chesa-
peake bay or on any river, creek, inlet, water-course
or other place on land or water within the state of
Maryland, it shall be the duty of the said board of
police commissioners to cause such person or per-
sons to be followed, and to take the most efficient
means for the suppression and prevention of such
outrage, when any such shall be attempted, and to
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cause the arrest of all such offenders ; provided, how-
ever, that if any crime be actually committed by
such person or persons, the offenders, shall be de-
livered to the proper jurisdiction for trial and pun-
ishment; any person charged with the commission
of crime in the city of Baltimore, and against whom
criminal process shall have issued, may be arrested
upon the same in any part of the state by the police
force created under this act, under such rules and
regulations as the board of police commissioners
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