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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Board may apply to the Superior court of Balti-
more city, in the name of the State, for a manda-
mus to compel a compliance with the provisions
of this section, and the application therefor shall
be heard and decided by the court; one week's no-
tice of the application shall be given, and the res-
pondent or respondents shall have the right to
answer within the week ; and if testimony be
needed on either side, the same shall be taken
within ten days after the answer is filed, or the
said week shall have expired ; from the decision
of the Superior court in the premises, either party
may appeal within ten days, and it shall be the
duty of the Clerk to send up the record immedi-
ately, and the appeal shall be heard by the court
of Appeals, if then in session, and if not in session
at the next term ; in both courts the case shall be
taken up and tried in preference to all others.

Repealed.

Sec . 7. And be it enacted, That section eight
hundred and twenty-one of the said article be and
the same is hereby repealed and that in lieu there-
of the following be enacted as a section of the said
Article :

Journal of
proceedings —
receipts and
disbursements
— reports, &c.

821. The board shall cause a full journal of
their proceedings to be kept, and shall also cause
all their receipts and disbursements of monies to
be faithfully entered in Books to be provided
for the purpose ; and said journal and all said
Books, and all other documents in the possesion
of said Board, shall always be open to inspection
by the General Assembly of Maryland, or any
committee appointed by it for that purpose, and
by the City Council of Baltimore, or any commit-
tee appointed by it for that purpose ; it shall be
the duty of the Board to report to the General
Assembly at each regular session, or as it may
hereafter direct, the number and expense of the
Police force employed by them under this article,
and all such other matters as may be of public
interest in connection with the duties assigned to
them by this article ; and a like report shall be
made to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
at each annual session of the said City Council.

In force.

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the day of the passage thereof.