ART. 4.] JAIL. 451

wood so inspected and measured by him, to be paid by the party
at whose request said service was performed; the said measurer
or deputy to give a certificate of the number of cords contained
in each lot.

JAIL.

1868, ch. 8.

535. The mayor and city council have power to provide by
ordinance for the appointment, as other city officers are ap
pointed, of visitors or other superintendents of the jail of said
city, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such visitors or
superintendents; provided, that until the mayor and city council
of Baltimore shall have acted in the premises, the powers and

duties of the visitors of the jail of Baltimore city shall be such as
are prescribed by the sections of this sub-title of this article; and
provided further, that when the said mayor and city council shall
have by ordinance prescribed the powers and duties of the visi-
tors of the jail of Baltimore city, then, and in that event, the
operation of the sections of this sub-title of this article, from
section 538 to section 567, inclusive, shall cease, and the said
sections, from section 538 to section 567, inclusive, shall be ipso
facto repealed.

Ibid.

536. All titles to property of any and every kind now held
by the visitors of the jail of Baltimore city shall be transferred
to and vested in the mayor and city council of Baltimore, to all
intents and purposes; and all powers and privileges heretofore

conferred upon the said visitors of the jail of Baltimore city
shall be conferred upon the mayor and city council aforesaid.

1880, ch. 382.

537. Each visitor so appointed, before he proceeds to act, shall
take and subscribe before the mayor the oath of office prescribed
in the sixth section of the first article of the constitution.

P. L. L.. (1860,) art. 4, sec. 671.

538. Three visitors shall at any time form a quorum for the
transaction of business.