ART. 4.] CITY OF BALTIMORE.

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corporation, and as recoverable against it as if the
mayor and city council of Baltimore had themselves
issued the same, and the mayor and city council of
Baltimore shall have no power or authority to levy
or collect any tax, or appropriate any money for the
payment of any police force other than to be organ-
ized and employed under this act, and no officer or
other employee of the said mayor and city council
shall disburse any money therefor, and the power of
said mayor and city council to levy and collect taxes,
and appropriate and disburse money for the payment
of the police force, to be organized and employed
under this act, shall be exercised as herein directed
and not otherwise ; and in case the amount so as
aforesaid to be estimated by the said board shall
from any cause prove insufficient for the necessary
expenses for the current year, the said board are
hereby authorized and empowered to issue certifi-
cates, and raise money therefrom, as hereinbefore

provided, to meet the said exigency ; provided, how-
ever, that no additional issue shall exceed the sum of
fifty thousand dollars, in any one year, and that the
amount thereof shall be added to the estimate assess-
ment and levy for the year next ensuing, and that
said certificates shall not be made payable at an
earlier day " than twelve months from the date of
their issue, but may be receivable in payment of
city taxes at any time they may be so presented.

Provisos.

813. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of Balti-
more city, whenever called on for that purpose by
said board, to act under their control for the preser-
vation of the public peace and quiet, and if ordered
by them so to do, he shall summon the posse comi-
tatus for that purpose, and hold and employ such
posse, subject to their discretion in case the said
board shall deem it necessary they shall call out
such military force lawfully organized or existing
in said city as they may see fit, to aid them in pre-
venting threatened disorder or opposition to the
laws, or in suppressing insurrection, riot or disorder
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Sheriffs duly