ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 454.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Turnpike

Companies to charge and collect toll for the use of

their roads by traction engines.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the turnpike companies now ex-

isting in Washington county, and the turnpike com-

panies hereafter to be formed, shall be authorized and

Collect tolls on

empowered to charge and collect tolls on their respec-

traction engine

tive roads from any and all owners of or persons pass-

ing over said roads with engines propelled by steam,

the rates of toll not to exceed ten cents per mile for

the distance actually traveled for each engine.

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

Effective

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 455.

AN ACT to repeal section eight Imndred and ten 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 810. Be it enacted. That section eight hun-

dred and ten of article four of the Public Local Laws,

title " City of Baltimore," sub-title " Police," as re-

Repealed and

pealed and re-enacted by the act of eighteen hundred

re-enacted.

and seventy, chapter two hundred and eighty-seven,

be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted

with amendments, so as to read as follows :

SEC. 810. That the said board of police commis-

sioners be and they are hereby authorized and required,

immediately on entering on the duties of their office,

to appoint, enroll and employ a permanent police force
for the city of Baltimore, which they shall arm and

Appoint police
force.

equip as they may judge necessary under such rules

and regulations as they may from time to time pre-

scribe, and the said board shall have power to remove

any police officer or officers of police or any detective