376 CITY OF BALTEMORE. [ART. 4.

complaints concerning alleged violations of the constitution and
laws touching elections at the election next preceding, and all
matters concerning the same which have come to their knowledge,
or concerning which they have had any information or reasonable
ground for inquiry.

P. L L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 220.

267. It shall further be the duty of the said grand jury to
make presentment to said court, on their said adjournment, of all
judges of election who shall have failed to appear before or cer-
tify to them as aforesaid, who shall be at once arrested and held to
bail to answer at the ensuing term of said court; and it shall be the
duty of the State's attorney immediately to apply for, and of the
court to issue a bench warrant for such arrest; and the State's
attorney shall likewise lay the said presentments before the next
grand jury, on the first day of their session, with the proper indict-
ments thereupon, which it shall be the duty of the said grand jury
to find on the said presentments; and the said court shall give the
provisions of this sub-title of this article in relation to elections in
charge to each and every grand jury which shall be in seesion at
the time of any election held in said city, or next thereafter; and
any failure so to do, and any neglect on the part of the judge of
said court or of the State's attorney for said city to perform the
duties by this section imposed on them, respectively, shall be and
the same are declared to be acts of criminal misbehavior in office
on the part of said judge and State's attorney, respectively

Ibid. sec. 221.

268. Any judge of election who shall wilfully neglect, or
shall, when called on, wilfully decline or refuse to exercise the
power conferred on him by this sub-title of this article for pre-
serving the peace on election days, and securing the tranquility
and freedom of elections, and the safety and uninterrupted access
of the voters to the ballot-boxes, shall be liable for every such
offence to a penalty of five hundred dollars, recoverable by civil
action by said board of police, in the name of the State.

1867, ch. 141.

269. The sheriff of Baltimore city, under the penalty of one
thousand dollars, at least two weeks previous to every election in