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ing and to notify all the parties interested therein of the time
and place where the same shall be heard, before said claims
shall be acted upon or passed and approved, and if at such
hearing it shall, in the judgment of said Board, be made to ap-
pear that any claim or claims objected to, or any part thereof is
not correct or just and bona fide, it shall be the duty of said
Board to reject and refuse to pay the same, or any part thereof,
so found to be incorrect.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of
laws, inconsistent with the provisions here of, and especially
Chapter 139 of the Act of 1912, be and the same are hereby
repealed.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 386.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 221
of Article 17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
title "Prince George's County, " sub-title, "Laurel, " as the
same was repealed and re-enacted by the Acts of Assembly
of 1890, Chapter 201, by the Acts of Assembly of 1912,
Chapter 695, and by the Acts of Assembly of 1922, Chapter
49.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 221 of Article 17 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "Prince George's County, " sub-title.
"Laurel, '' as the same was repealed and re-enacted by the Acts
of Assembly of 1890, Chapter 201, by the Acts of Assembly of
1912, Chapter 695, and by the Acts of Assembly of 1922, Chap-
ter 49, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

SEC. 221. There shall be appointed annually by the Mayor,
subject to confirmation of the City Council, on the fourth Mon-
day in April, or as soon thereafter as practicable, one person as
Chief Bailiff, and such other persons as may be necessary, from
time to time, as bailiffs of said town, whose duties it shall be to
preserve the peace and good order of the town, to arrest without
warrant and to take before a Justice of the Peace any person
found violating any ordinance, resolution or regulation of the
town or any law of this State; or upon warrant issued on com-
plaint of others to arrest any person charged with the violation
of any ordinance, resolution or regulation of the town or any