1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 9.

Power to
commit to
jail.

SEC. 11. In order to enable the judges to discharge
the duties imposed on them by this article or any
other law, they and each of them shall have full
power and authority upon every day of election,
and until they shall have made up the return of
the votes polled, to commit to the jail of Balti-
more city, upon their warrants respectively, all
persons who shall within their respective precincts
violate or attempt to violate any of the provisions
of this article, or any section thereof, or of any
other law touching elections now existing or here-
after to be enacted, and they are authorised to call
upon the sheriff of Baltimore and his deputies, and
all constables, policemen, or other peace officers, to
serve the said warrants, and they are further au-
thorized and directed at the times and for the pe-
riods aforesaid, to call upon the said sheriff and
his deputies and other officers last above mentioned,
as well as all private citizens, and, if need be, to
summon the posse comitatus to aid them in suppress-
ing riot, violence, disturbance, and disorder, and
in preserving the public peace, protecting themselves
and other voters, and securing the quiet and free-
dom of the election and the safety of the ballots
and ballot boxes.

Penalty.

SEC. 12. Any person or persons whom the said
judges or any of them may so summon, or on whom
they may so call to execute the said warrants, or
aid them respectively, as hereinbefore provided,
and who shall refuse to obey such call or summons,
shall be liable respectively to the penalties follow-
ing for such refusal, to be recovered by the said
board of police by civil action in the name of the
State, that is to say, the said sheriff to a penalty
of five thousand dollars, any other peace officer
aforesaid to a penalty of five hundred dollars, and
any private citizen to a penalty of one hundred
and fifty dollars, and each and every person so re-
fusing shall be liable moreover to indictment, and
such punishment for such refusal as is by law al-
ready or may hereafter be provided.

Penalty.

SEC. 13. Any officer or person having control,
command or keeping of the jail of Baltimore city,
who shall refuse to receive or detain, and any offi-
cer of the corporation of said city who shall prevent
or forbid the reception or detention in such jail of
any person so committed by said judges, or any of
them, according to the exigency of such commit-