522 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

so removed, to serve until the next meeting of the General
Assembly.

742. The Board of Police Commissioners shall select some
suitable person to act as secretary to the Board, whose duty it
shall be to keep minutes of the proceedings of the Board, take
charge, by direction of the Board, of all property seized or
found by the police or detectives, and to perform all clerical and
proper duties required of him by said Board; and it shall fur-
ther be the duty of said secretary to prepare forms of all poll-
books and election returns, warrants of arrest and commitments
to be used by the judges of election for all elections held in Bal-
timore City, to superintend carefully the printing thereof, and
to perform all other clerical duties devolved upon said Board
by law in connection with all elections held in said City, as may
be required of him by said Board; said secretary shall enter into
bond to the State of Maryland in the same manner as is by law
prescribed for said Commissioners, in the sum of five thousand
dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties afore-
said, and the safe keeping of all property placed in his hands as
aforesaid, and shall receive the salary of two thousand dollars
per annum, payable monthly, and be subject to removal at the
pleasure of the Board.

743. The Board of Police Commissioners are hereby au-
thorized to employ an additional officer, to be known as assist-
ant to the secretary to the Board; the salary of said assist-
ant secretary shall be twelve hundred dollars per annum, pay-
able monthly.

744. 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 Balti-
more, 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