A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

proved June the fourth, eighteen hundred and
sixty, and an ordinance of the said Mayor and
City Cquncil, "to provide for a public Park or
Parks," approved July the twenty-first, eighteen
hundred and srxty, are hereby confirmed, and all
acts done or which may be hereafter done by the
said Mayor and City Council, or other officer of
said city, or by the park commission acting under
the provisions of said resolution and ordinance,
shall have the same effect as if the said Mayor and
City Council, prior to the passage of the said reso-
lution and ordinance, had been expressly empow-
ered by an act of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, to enact a resolution and ordinance, in the
precise terms of the said resolution and ordinance,
and to provide for carrying the same into effect;
but nothing herein is to affect any right whatso-
ever of the Green Spring Avenue Company.

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955. The Park commission, for the time being,
appointed under the provisions of said resolution
and ordinance, or any resolution or ordinance sup-
plementary thereto, shall have power, from time
to time, to make such rules and regulations for the
government and the preservation of order within
the said Parks as they may deem expedient, de-
claring what fines, nut exceeding in any one case
one hundred dollars, shall be imposed for breaches
of said rules and regulations, to be recoverable in
the name of the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more, as small debts are recoverable before a Jus-
tice of the Peace of the said city, and appropriated
to the purposes of said Parks.

Rules for the
preservation of
order.

956. The several members of the said Park
commission shall have the powers of a conserva-
tor of the peace within the limits of the said
Parks.

Conservators
of the peace.

957. The Board of Police of the said city are
authorized, on the requisition of the Park commis-
sion, to detail, from time to time, such of the
regular police force of said city, as the said board
may deem necessary for the preservation of order
within the said Parks, according to the regula-
tions aforesaid, and under the direction of said
board; which detailed force shall have the same
power in the premises; that the police of the city
have as conservators of the peace.

Power to de-
tail regular
police, to pre-
serve order in
the Park.