LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 539

780. The Board of Police Commissioners for the City of
Baltimore are hereby authorized and directed to pay to James
M. Moore, a retired patrolman of the police force of Baltimore
City, out of a fund in the hands of said Board of Police Com-
missioners known and accounted for as the special fund, the
sum of twelve dollars per week for his life, in lieu of the sum of
six dollars per week now paid said James M. Moore by said
Board of Police Commissioners, under and by authority of an
Act of the General Assembly of Maryland (Chapter 459, Laws
of Maryland, eighteen hundred and eighty-six), entitled "An
Act to define a fund of money now in the hands, or which under
existing laws may come into the hands, of the Board of Police
Commissioners for the City of Baltimore, and to provide for
its application," approved April 7th, eighteen hundred and
eighty-six.

Long Bridge.

781. The jurisdiction and authority of the Board of Police
Commissioners for the City of Baltimore is hereby declared to
extend to and over the bridge across the Patapsco river, known
as the Long Bridge or Light Street Bridge; and said Board
and their police force shall on and under said bridge, preserve
the public peace, prevent crime, arrest offenders, protect the
rights of persons and property, and prevent and remove nuis-
ances; provided, however, that if any crime be actually com-
mitted by any person who shall be arrested by said police, the
offender shall be delivered to the proper jurisdiction for trial
and punishment.

Telegraph to House of Correction.

782. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall keep
and maintain, at their own proper cost and expense, the line of
telegraph from the House of Correction, in Anne Arundel
county, to the police headquarters in Baltimore City, trans-
ferred to them by the Board of Public Works, and are invested
with all the rights and privileges granted to telegraph compa-
nies under the General Incorporation Laws of the State in the
working and maintenance of this line.