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comes into operation, or shall thereafter be commenced in respect
to any such matter or thing done before this act comes into oper-
ation may be prosecuted, continued and defended in the same
manner as if the said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed,
Approved April 8, 1890.

		CHAPTER 574.
		AN ACT to repeal section seven hundred and twenty-five, of
		article four, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "City of
		Baltimore," sub-title "Police," and to re-enact the same with
		amendments.
		SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of Maryland,
	Repeal.	That section seven hundred and twenty-five, of article four, of
		the Code of Public Local Laws, title "City of Baltimore," sub-
		title "Police," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
		with amendments so as to read as follows :
		725. The duties of the board of police commissioners hereby
		created shall be as follows : they shall at all times of the day and
		night, within the boundaries of the city of Baltimore, as well on
		the water as on the land, preserve the public peace, prevent crime
		and arrest offenders, protect the rights of persons and property,
		guard the public health, preserve order at primary meetings' and
		elections, and at all public meetings and conventions and on all
		public occasions and places, prevent and remove nuisances in all
		the streets and highways, waters and water-courses, and all other
		places, provide a proper police force at every fire for the protec-
	Duties of Police	tion of firemen and property, protect strangers, emigrants and
	commis-	travelers at all steamboat, ferry boat and ship landings and rail-
	sioners,	way stations, see that all laws relating to elections, and to the
		observance of Sunday, and regarding pawnbrokers, gambling,
		intemperance, lotteries and lottery policies, vagrants, disorderly
		persons and the public health are enforced, and also to enforce
		all laws, ordinances of the mayor and city council of Baltimore,
		not inconsistent with the provisions of this sub-title of this art-
		icle, or of any law of the State which may be properly enforce-
		able by a police force; and in case the said board of police com-
		missioners shall have reason to believe that any person within the
		limits of the city of Baltimore intends leaving the city for the
		purpose of committing any breach of the peace, or of violating
		any law of the State beyond the limits of the city, upon the Ches-
		apeake bay, or on any river, creek, inlet, water-course, or at any
		other place on land or water within the State of Maryland, it
		shall be the duty of the said board of police commissioners to cause