LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 523

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 protection of firemen and property,
protect strangers, emigrants and travelers at all steamboat,
ferry-boat and ship landings and railway 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-division of this Article, or of any law
of the State which may be properly enforceable by a police
force; and in case the said Board of Police Commissioners 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 Chesapeake
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
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
committed 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-division of this Article, under such
rules and regulations 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 sub-division of 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