224 BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.

court and register of wills may direct, and shall be paid quarterly
by the county commissioners, upon the certificate of the register
of wills, two dollars per day for each day he shall be in attend-
ance upon said court.

POLICE AND POLICE STATIONS.

1888, ch. 486

174. The county commissioners are authorized and required!
to appoint such number of policemen as they may deem necessary
for the better protection of persons and property in Baltimore
county, one of whom shall have control of said police force, and
shall be designated as marshal; they shall equip and arm said
force, and make such rules and regulations for their proper
government and discipline as they may deem best to promote the
efficiency of the same—a copy of which rules and regulations shall
be furnished to each officer, as well as to the marshal, who shall
see that they are strictly enforced.

Ibid.

175. It shall be the duty of said marshal to require each
policeman at such times of the day or night as he may be upon
duty, to preserve the public peace, prevent crime, and protect
the rights of persons and property; to see that all laws relating
to the observance of Sunday, and in regard to gambling, intemper-
ance, vagrants and disorderly persons, are strictly enforced, and
to assist the sanitary officer of his district to enforce faithfully
and strictly all laws, rules and orders that now exist or which
may hereafter be passed or issued for the purpose of maintaining
and preserving the public health; and to arrest all offenders
against the laws of the State, and to take such offenders to the
nearest justice of the peace for said county; and for any neglect
or violation of the provisions of this section by any officer of the
force, said marshal shall suspend such officer and report his action
in the case, with the charges preferred in writing against such
officer to the county commissioners at their next meeting, for
their investigation and final action.

Ibid.

176. The pay of each footman shall be not less than two dol-
lars per day, and the pay of the marshal and four chiefs of divi-