The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-04-30
PU BIO
GENERAL LAWS
PASSED BY THE
General Assembly of Maryland,
At the January Session, 1880.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
TCuAPTER 1901
460.]
CORPORATIONS.
AN ACT

AN ACT
To add additional sections, to be numbered
two hundred and twenty-one, two hundred
and twenty-five, two hundred and twenty
three, two hundred and twenty-four, two
hundred and twenty-five and two hundred
and twenLy-six, to the Code of Public Gene
raj Laws, article twenty-six, entitled "Cor-
porations" empowering railroad, steamboat,
canal, coal and iron companies, to employ a
police force.
SECTION |. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That the following
sections, to be numbered two hundred d
twenty-one, two hundred and twenty-five, two
hundred and twenty-three, two hundred and
twenty. four, two hundred and twenty-five and
two hundred and twenty-six, be, and the same
are hereby, added to article twenty six of the
Code of Public General Laws of the State, re-
lating TO Corporations, to wit:
22l. Corporations owning or using any rail-
road, steamboat canal, furnace, colllery or
rolling MILL in this State, may, Jointly or
severaly, apply 10 the Governor to commits
sion such persons as the said corporation or
corporations may designate, to act as police
men for the protection of the property of said
corporation or corporations, and for the pre-
servation OF peace and good order on their re-
spective premises, railroad trains or steam
boats.
222. The Governor, upon such application,
may, if he thinks it proper 30 to do, appoint
such persons, or so many of them as he may
deem proper, 10 be such policemen, and shall
issue to each person so appointed, commits
sion and shall transmit such commission TO
such clerks office in the State, as may, by such
corporation or corporations be requested, and
he may revoke and annul any such appoint
ment al his pleasure.
223. Every policeman so appointed, shall,
before entering upon the duties of his office,
take and subscribe, before a Justice of the
Peace of the county or city in which his com
mission may be received, the oath or afiirma-
ton, prescribed by the fourth section of the
first article Of the Constitution, which oath or
affirmation shall be recorded in the clerk 8
Cfiice of such county or city, and every such
policeman SO appointed, after the recording of
the oath or aflirmat on to be by him taken as
aforesaid, shall possess and exerise in the
counties and cities in which the railroads,
canals, colIieres, furnaces rolling mills and
premises, of the corporation for which he may
have been appointed, are respectively situa-
ted, all the authority and powers held and
exercised by constabes at common law, and
under the statutes OF this State, and also all
the authority and powers conferred, by law,
on policemen in the city OF Baltimore.
224 Every such policeman SHALL when on
duty, except when on detective duty, wear a
metallic shield, with the word "Police," in
scribed thereon, and said shield shall always
be worn, in plain view, except when he is
employed as a detective.
225. The compensation of every such police
man shall be paid by the party or parties
upon whose recommendation he was appoint
ed, and neither the State, nor any county
therein, shall be responsible for any part of
such compensation.
226 Whenever the services Of any police
man, so appointed as aforesaid, shall no longer
be required a notice, in writing, to tn at effect,
shall be given by the corporation or corpora
tons at whose instance he was appointed, and
such notice shall be filed in the clerks office
where the commission and oath or affirmation
of such policeman shall have fleen recorded,
which notice shall be noted by such clerk,
upon the margin OF the record where such
commission and oath or affirmation are re-
corded and thereupon the power of such
policeman shall cease, and be determined.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act
shall take effect from the date of its passage
HERMAN STUMP,
President of the Senate.
HIRAM MCCULLOUGH,
Speaker of the House of Delegates
Approved April 10, 1880.
VIM. T. HAMILTON,
Governor of Mary land
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is cor
rect copy of an act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed at January session
1880.
EUGENE HIGGINS,
Secretary of the Senate
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of The House of Delegates