ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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such person to be followed, and to take the most effectual means

for the suppression and prevention of such outrage, when any

such shall be attempted, and to cause the arrest of all such

offenders; provided, however, that if any crime be actually com-

mitted by such person, the offender shall be delivered to the

proper jurisdiction for trial and punishment; any person charged

with the commission of crime in the city of Baltimore and against

whom criminal process shall have issued, may be arrested upon

the same in any part of the State by the police force created

under this sub-title of this article, under such rules and regula-

tions as the board of police commissioners may adopt; and the

said board shall have power to summon witnesses before it and

to administer oaths or affirmations, to such witnesses whenever in

the judgment of the said board it may be necessary for the

effectual discharge of their duties under this article; and any

person failing to appear in answer to said summons, or refusing

to testify, shall be subject to a penalty of not less than twenty-

five nor more than fifty dollars, to be recovered by civil action in

Penalty

the name of the State, to the use of the said board, or by indict-

ment in the criminal court of Baltimore; false swearing on the

part of any such witness shall be deemed perjury and shall be

punished as such.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 575.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Damascus, in Montgomery

county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assembly of Maryland

That the citizens of the town of Damascus, in Montgomery county

Body cor-

be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name

porate.

of the "Commissioners of Damascus," and by that name may sue

and be sued and have and use a common seal.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the corporate limits of said town

shall be as follows : beginning at the north side of the public

road leading from Damascus to Etchison at the southeast corne

of Levi W. Pearce's lot, and running with the division line between

Corporate

the lands of Levi W. Pearce and William H. Bowman, north to

limits.

the lot of John Lyles; thence with the dividing line between the

lands of John Lyles and William H. Bowman to the land of Oliver

Watkins; thence west with the dividing line between the lands

of John Lyles and Oliver Watkins to the lands of Jason P.

Warthen; thence north with the dividing line between the lands