ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 183

lawful to destroy or deface or damage in any manner such
properties. Any person violating the provisions of this sec-
tion shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
before any Justice of the Peace, shall be fined the sum of one
hundred dollars ($100.00).

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from June 1, 1920.

Approved April 16, 1920.

CHAPTER 113.

AN ACT to authorize the qualified voters of Baltimore City
to determine by ballot whether or not the power or ap-
pointment of the Board of Police Commissioners for the
City of Baltimore, and of the Board of Police Examiners
of Baltimore City, shall be transferred from the Governor
to the Mayor of Baltimore City to be elected in said city
on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in May, nine-
teen hundred and twenty-three, and by his successors in
said office.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the power of appointment of the Board of Police
Commissioners for the City of Baltimore, provided for in Sec-
tion 740 of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (Revised Edition of 1915), and of the Board of
Police Examiners of Baltimore City, provided for in Section
745A of said Article, as said Boards are now, or may here-
after be constituted by law, be and the same is hereby trans-
ferred from the Governor, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, and conferred upon the Mayor of Baltimore
City to be elected on the Tuesday next after the first Monday
in May, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and upon his
successors in said office; said appointments to be made at the
time, in the manner and for the terms now prescribed by law
for the appointment of heads of departments in said city, or
in such other manner as may hereafter be prescribed by law,
provided that the terms of the members of the Board of Police
Commissioners and the members of the Board of Police Exam-
iners appointed by the Governor in the year 1922 shall ter-