1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 7.

sive management and control of the said board,
and be subject to no other control, and entitled to
receive neither orders nor pay (except arrearages
then due) from any other authority, and shall so
continue, subject, however, to removal or suspen-
sion, at the discretion of said board, and with the
power in said board to fill vacancies until the said
board shall publicly declare that the organization
of the police force created by this article is com-
plete; upon such public declaration, and from the
time thereof, all ordinances of the mayor and city
council of Baltimore are hereby annulled and de-
clared void, so far as they conflict with this article
or assume or confer upon the mayor or any other
person or persons the power to appoint, dismiss, or
in any way, or to any extent, employ or control
any police force, organized or to be organized under
such ordinances or any of them; and from and
after such public declaration as aforesaid, the police
force organized, or which may be organized under
such ordinances or any of them, shall cease to exist,
and all its functions and powers be at an end.

Estimate.

SEC. 15. It shall be the duty of the said board,
with all convenient speed after qualifying as afore-
said, and annually thenceforward, to estimate what
sum of money will be necessary for each current
fiscal year, to enable them to discharge the duties
hereby imposed on them, and they shall forthwith
certify the same to the mayor and city council of
Baltimore, who are hereby required, without delay,
specifically to assess and levy such amount as shall
be sufficient to raise the same, clear of all expense
and discounts, upon all the assessable property in
the city of Baltimore, and to cause the same to be
collected as all other city taxes; and it is hereby
made the duty of the collector of the city of Balti-
more, and he is required to collect said tax, and no
bill of city taxes other than for interest on the city
funded debt (except bills of city taxes payable be-
fore the year eighteen hundred and sixty) shall be
demandable or receiveable from any person by the
mayor and city council of Baltimore, unless the
same shall contain the proper charge for such tax,
to be denominated the police tax; and the said
board of police upon and after qualifying as afore-
said, are hereby authorised to make requisitions
from time to time upon the mayor, register, comp-
troller of the city of Baltimore, or other proper dis-