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covered by said board of police by civil action in the name of
the State; and it shall be the duty of said board and of the
sheriff and his deputies, and of all policemen, constables and other
peace-officers, to take care that the provisions of this section be
complied with, and to inform upon all persons violating the same,
of whose offences they shall have knowledge or information.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 218.

265. It shall be the duty of each and every one of the said
judges of election, immediately after each election at which they
shall have acted as such, to appear before the grand jury of the
criminal court of Baltimore, if in session, and if not, before the
grand jury of said court which shall next be in session thereafter,
to be examined touching any and all violations of the provisions
of the constitution, or of this sub-title of this article, or of any
other law relating to elections, of which they may have personal
knowledge, or which they may have reasonable ground to believe
to have been committed at such election; and every judge of
election in said city failing so to appear before the grand jury as
aforesaid, prior to the adjournment of the same, and to give such
information as aforesaid as he may possess in the premises, shall
be liable to a penalty of five hundred dollars, to be recovered by
the said board of police by civil action, in the name of the State,
unless the judge or judges so failing to appear shall have fur-
nished to the said grand jury, before their said adjournment, his
or their certificate, signed by him or them, and under oath made
and certified before a justice of the peace of said city, that he
or they did not know, and had no reason to believe, that any
such offences had been committed at the said election, which
certificates shall be returned by the grand jury to the said court,
and preserved and recorded by the clerk thereof.

Ibid, sec 219.

266. No grand jury sitting at the time of any election in said
city, or assembling next thereafter, shall be discharged by the said
court until they have made written presentment, on their oaths, to
the said court, that they have diligently and to the best of their
knowledge and ability, examined such judges of election as may
have come before them, and inquired into and acted upon all