ART. 4.] CITY OF BALTIMORE.

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said board shall retain a copy thereof with their cer-
tificate attached, to be filed among the papers of their
office.

818. The said board of police commissioners are
authorized and empowered whenever in their judg-
ment the public peace and tranquility may require,
to order the closing temporarily of any and all bar
rooms, bars, drinking houses, and liquor shops, and
all other places where liquor is usually sold in the
city of Baltimore, and forbid the selling and fur-
nishing of liquor thereat, and any proprietor or
keeper, or any other person for such proprietor or
keeper, of any such drinking house, place or places,
as well as all other places where liquor is usually
sold, who shall refuse or fail to obey such order of
said board of police commissioners passed in pursu-
ance thereof, or who shall sell or furnish liquor from
any such place or places, during such period as said

Board may
close bar
rooms, &c.

board shall so forbid, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and it shall be the duty of each and every
officer of police, policeman and detective, who may
be cognizant of any violation of this section to report
the same to the grand jury of the city of Baltimore,
if in session, and if not in session then to the next
grand jury that may be summoned for said city, and
every officer of police, policeman and detective who
shall wilfully fail to make such report shall be forth-
with dismissed from his position and shall be forever
after ineligible to any position in the police.

Penalty.

819. The said board of police commissioners are
hereby authorized and empowered to take possession
of all property heretofore by law assigned to the for-
mer board of police, and to have and use a common
seal ; they may divide the city into such number of
police districts as they may think necessary for the
public good, and if found practicable in addition to
the station houses, and property attached thereto,
which they are hereby authorized and empowered
to take possession of, and use, they may provide
additional station houses with all necessary appur-

Powers of
board as to pro-
perty, police
districts, &c