ART. 4.] ELECTIONS. 371

city, upon their warrants, respectively, all persons who shall,
within their respective precincts, violate or attempt to violate
any of the provisions of this sub-title of this article, or any sec-
tion thereof, or of any other law touching elections, now existing
or hereafter to be enacted; and they are authorized to call upon
the sheriff of Baltimore and his deputies, and all constables,
policemen or other peace-officers, to serve the said warrants; and
they are further authorized and directed at the times and for the
periods aforesaid, to call upon the said sheriff and his deputies
and other officers last above-mentioned, as well as all private citi-
zens, and if need be to summon the posse comitatus to aid them
in suppressing riot, violence, disturbance and disorder, and in
preserving the public peace, protecting themselves and other
voters, and securing the quiet and freedom of the election, and
the safety of the ballots and ballot-boxes.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 210.

257t Any person whom the said judges or any of them may
so summon, or on whom they may so call to execute the said
warrants or aid them, respectively, as hereinbefore provided, who
shall refuse to obey such call or summons, shall be liable, respec-
tively, to the penalties following for such refusal, to be recovered
by the board of police, by civil action, in the name of the State,
that is to say: the said sheriff to a penalty of five thousand dol-
lars, any other peace-officer aforesaid to a penalty of five hundred
dollars, and any private citizen to a penalty of one hundred and
fifty dollars; and each and every person so refusing shall be liable,
moreover, to indictment and such punishment for such refusal as
is by law already or as may hereafter be provided.

Ibid. sec. 211.

258. Any officer or person having control, command or keep-
ing of the jail of Baltimore city who shall refuse to receive or
detain, and any officer of the corporation of said city who shall
prevent or forbid the reception or detention in such jail, of any
person so committed by said judges, or any of them, according to
the exigency of such commitment, shall be liable to a penalty of