1280 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 740

such officer or upon the information and oath of any other
person, the Trial Magistrate shall issue a warrant of arrest
directed to said chief of police commanding him to make the
arrest of the person or persons named in the information,
and said officer shall execute and return said warrant or
writ. If any crime or offense against the laws shall be
committed in the presence of the Chief of Police or if any
crime be committed between sunset of one day and sunrise
on the next day or at any time on Sunday, the
said Chief of Police shall arrest the offender without
warrant. The chief of police shall attend the meetings of
the Council. And the chief of police shall perform such
other duties mentioned in this Charter or as the Mayor and
Council shall assign to him by ordinance or otherwise.
The chief of police, before entering upon the discharge of
his duties, shall take the required oath and he shall hold
office for two years and until his successor has been ap-
pointed and qualified. The Mayor shall appoint an assist-
ant chief of police and such other police as urgent neces-
sity may require, all of whom shall be vested and clothed
with all the powers and authority herein conferred upon
the chief of police. And the chief of police and other police
shall receive such compensation as may be determined by
the Mayor and Council.

RECALL

42. (1) The holder of any elective office may be re-
moved at any time after the date of his election, by the
electors qualified to vote for a successor of such incumbent.
The procedure to affect the removal of an incumbent of
an elective office shall be as follows:

(2) In case of the Mayor a petition signed by electors
entitled to vote for a successor to the incumbent Mayor
sought to be removed equal in number to at least twenty-
five per centum of the entire vote for all candidates for the
office of Mayor cast at the last preceding general municipal
election, and in case of a councilman a petition signed by
electors entitled to vote for a successor to the incumbent
councilman sought to be removed equal in number to at
least twenty-five per centum of the entire vote for all can-
didates for the office of councilman cast in the particular
ward from which the incumbent sought to be recalled was
elected at the last general municipal election, demanding
an election of a successor of the person sought to be re-
moved, shall be filed with the town clerk, which petition
shall contain a general statement of the grounds for which
the removal is sought. The signatures to the petition need
not all be appended to one paper, but each signer shall add