1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 7.

for the year next ensuing; and that the said certifi-
cates shall not be made payable at an earlier date
than the first day of August next after issuing the
same, and shall not be receivable in payment of
city taxes earlier than those for the year in which
they shall so be payable.

Penalty.

SEC. 16. Any officer or servant of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, or other person whatso-
ever, who shall forcibly resist or obstruct the execu-
tion or enforcement of any of the provisions of this
article, providing a permanent police for the city
of Baltimore or relating to the same, or who shall
disburse any money in violation thereof, or who
shall hinder or obstruct the organization of said
Board of Police, or the police force hereinbefore
provided to be organized, or who shall maintain or
control or attempt to maintain or control the exist-
ing police force of said city or any part thereof, or
any other police force under the ordinance here-
inbefore repealed, except as herein provided, shall
be liable to a penalty of one thousand dollars for
each and every such offence, recoverable by the board
by action at law in the name of the State, and shall
forever thereafter be disqualified from holding or
exercising any office or employment whatsoever
under the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or

Proviso.

under this article; Provided, however, That nothing
in this section shall be construed to interfere with
the punishment under any existing or any future
law of this State, of any criminal offence which
shall be committed by the said parties in or about
the resistance, obstruction, hinderance, conspiracy,
combination or disbursement aforesaid.

Justices of
the peace to
be employed.

SEC. 17. The said board shall have the power,
and it shall be their duty from time to time to select
and employ from among the duly elected and quali-
fied justices of the peace for the city of Baltimore,
such justice or justices as may be required, and as
they may deem proper, to sit at the respective sta-
tion houses, for the hearing of such charges as may
be brought against persons arrested and carried to
the said station houses, and shall have full power
to pay to him or them such moderate compensation

Proviso.

as they may judge fit, and to remove and change
the said justices in their discretion; Provided, how-
ever, that nothing in this section shall be construed
to prohibit the said justices from recovering from