T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

or they shall have taken out any, and be disquali-
fied from taking out any other license for the sale
of such liquors for the space of five years thereafter,
and shall moreover be liable to a penalty of five
hundred dollars, to be recovered by said board of
police by civil action in the name of the State, and
it shall be the duty of said board and of the sheriff
and his deputies, and of all policemen, constables and
other peace officers to take care that the provisions
of this section be complied with, and to inform upon
all persons violating the same, of whose offence they
shall have knowledge or information.

SEC. 20. It shall be the duty of each and every
of the said judges of election immediately after each
election at which they shall have acted as such, to
appear before the grand jury of the Criminal Court of
Baltimore city, if in session, and if not, before the
grand jury of said court which shall next be in ses-
sion thereafter, to be examined touching any and
all violations of the provisions of the Constitution
or of this article, or of any other law relating to
elections of which they may have personal knowl-
edge, or which they may have reasonable ground
to believe to have been committed at such election,
and every judge of election in said city failing so to
appear before the grand jury as aforesaid prior to
the adjournment of the same, and to give such in-
formation as aforesaid as he may possess in the
premises, shall be liable to a penalty of five hun-
dred dollars, to be recovered by the said board of
police by civil action in the name of the State, un-
less the judge or judges so failing to appear shall
have furnished to the said grand jury before their
said adjournment, his or their certificate signed by
him or them, and under oath made and certified
before a justice of the peace of said city, that he or
they did not know and had no reason to believe
that any such offences had been committed at the
said election, which certificate shall be returned by
the grand jury to the said court, and preserved and
recorded by the clerk thereof.

Judges to ap-
pear before
grand jury.

SEC. 21. No grand jury sitting at the time of any
election in said city or assembling next thereafter
shall be discharged by the said court until they
have made written presentment on their oaths to
the said court that they have diligently and to the
best of their knowledge and ability examined such
judges of election as may have come before them,

Presentment.