SOMERSET COUNTY. 1085

attorney to the Mayor and Council, to be known as the "City
Solicitor," and who shall be confirmed as provided in the pre-
vious section. He shall be a member of the bar of the Circuit
Court for Somerset County, and who has resided in and prac-
ticed his profession for not less than three years immediately
preceding his appointment in the City of Crisfield, and he shall
receive such compensation as may be agreed upon. The City
Solicitor shall be the legal adviser of the Mayor and Council of
Crisfield, and shall have general supervision and direction of
all legal business of the city. He shall have charge of the prep-
aration and trial of all suits, actions and proceedings of every
kind to which the city shall be a party in any court, State or
Federal, and he shall personally participate in the trial of all
such suits in any courts of the State or Federal courts, and all
such suits in other courts which the Mayor may request him in
writing to try, and shall discharge such other duties as 'may
from time to time be prescribed by ordinance not inconsistent
with this Act, and he may receive extra compensation for any
extra and special services and for suits in the State or Federal
courts.

70. The policemen and street supervisors before entering
upon the duties of their office shall each take and subscribe
before the Mayor or a Justice of the Peace of Somerset County
residing in said city an oath to well and faithfully, without par-
tiality or prejudice, perform the duties of his office in all things
according to the laws of the State and the ordinance of said
city, and to enforce said laws and said ordinance to the best of
his ability, which oath shall be certified to by the Mayor or
justice of the peace before whom it is taken, and filed with the
clerk of the Council, and be recorded in the minutes of said
Council, and the original certificate safely kept. The original
certificate, the record thereof or a certified copy of the same
under the hand of said clerk and the seal of the Mayor and
Council, shall be evidence in any court in the State.

71. The said policemen and street supervisors so appointed
shall have all the police powers of constables in this State, and
it shall be their duty to enforce the by-laws, resolutions and
ordinances of said city and the laws of the State of Maryland
relating to crime and misdemeanors committed in said city.
The Mayor, or in his absence or disability the President of the
Council, may appoint special policemen, with all the powers of
the regular policemen, for a term of not exceeding forty-eight
hours, when deemed necessary so to do, the one appointing to
fix the compensation of said special policemen at a reasonable
per diem; their duties and powers shall be the same as those of
the regular policemen. Policemen shall have the same fees for