1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 7.

Commission-
ers ineligible
to other offi-
ces.

said commissioners who, during his term of office,
shall accept any other place of public trust or emolu-
ment, or who during the same period shall know-
ingly receive any nomination for an office elective
by the people, without publicly declining the same
within twenty days succeeding said nomination,,
shall be deemed to have thereby vacated his office;
for official misconduct any of the said commission-
ers may be removed by a concurrent vote of the two
Houses of the General Assembly.

Commission-
ers appointed.

SEC. 4. The following persons, to wit: Charles
Howard, William H. Gatchell, Charles D. Hinks,
and John W. Davis, of the city of Baltimore, are
hereby appointed the first commissioners under this
article, and so soon as they shall have been quali-
fied, by taking and subscribing to the oaths or affir-

Tenure of
office— how
determined.

mations hereinbefore mentioned, they shall divide
themselves into two equal classes, to be determined
by lot, and the two who shall be drawn of the first
class shall serve from the time of their appointment
until the end of two years from and after the tenth
day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty, and until
their successors shall have been appointed and
qualified; and the two who shall be drawn of the
second class shall serve from the time of their
appointment until the end of four years from and
after the tenth day of March, eighteen hundred
and sixty, and until their successors shall have
been appointed and qualified: when the division
into classes, as herein prescribed, shall have taken
place, notice thereof shall be at once given to the
Governor by the commissioners, in writing, to be
filed in the State Department.

Duties of
the Board of
Police.

SEC. 5. The duties of the board of police, hereby
created, shall be as follows: they shall at all times
of the day and night, within the boundaries of the
city of Baltimore, as well on water as on land,
preserve the public peace, prevent crime and arrest
offenders, protect the rights of person and property,
guard the public health, preserve order at every
public election, and at all public meetings and
places, and on all public occasions, prevent and
remove nuisances in all streets, highways, waters,
and other places, provide a proper police force at
every fire for the protection of firemen and property,
protect strangers, emigrants, and travelers at steam-
boat and ship landings and railway stations, see
that all laws relating to elections and to the observ-