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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 321.

AN ACT to repeal section thirty-six of chapter
two hundred and sixteen of the acts of assem-
bly, passed eighteen hundred and eighty-two,
title "Dorchester County," sub-title "Cam-
bridge," and tore-enact the same as amended,
and to add additional sub-sections A, B and C,
to create a police board and police for Cam-
bridge, and define their duties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-

Repealed and
re-enacted.

sembly of Maryland. That section thirty-six of
chapter two hundred and sixteen of the acts of
assembly, passed in the session eighteen hundred
and eighty-two, titled "Dorchester County,"
sub-titled "Cambridge," be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as
follows, and also to add additional sub-sections
A, B and C, creating a police board and police
for said town of Cambridge, and to define their
duties.
SEC. 36. The county commissioners for Dor-

Pay to com-
missioners.

chester county shall, on the first day of October,
in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,
and annually thereafter, pay to the commission-
ers of said town the sum of seven hundred dol-
lars, out of the taxes levied and collected for
roads in said county, to be applied, by the said
town commissioners, for corporate purposes.
SEC. 36 A. The mayor of the town of Cambridge,

Police com-
missioners.

the president of the board of trade of said town,
and the state's attorney for Dorchester county,
shall constitute a board of police commissioners,
to serve without pay, and they, or a majority of
them, shall appoint, on or about the first day of
October, of each and every year, four sober, dis-
creet and muscular men for policemen, whose
term of service shall be six months, unless sooner

Powers.

discharged for inefficiency or misconduct ; the
said police board, or a majority of them, shall
fill all vacancies occasioned by resignation,
death, discharge, or other causes, and shall have
power to temporarily increase the number of
police, and to temporarily appoint police from
April to October, when, in their judgment, the