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Article, to pay the purchase money of the ground needed for the erection
of station-houses hereafter required for the uses of said Commissioner,
and also the cost of the erection and repair of said station-houses.

780. Vacant.

LONG BRIDGE.

1892, ch. 356. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 756O.

781. The jurisdiction and authority of the Police Commissioner for
the City of Baltimore is hereby declared to extend to and over the bridge
across the Patapsco River, known as the Long Bridge or Light Street
Bridge; and said Commissioner and his police force shall on and under
said bridge, preserve the public peace, prevent crime, arrest, offenders,
protect the rights of persons and property, and prevent and remove nuis-
ances; provided, however, that if any crime be actually committed by
any person who shall be arrested by said police, the offender shall be
delivered to the proper jurisdiction for trial and punishment.

Since the passage of the Annexation Act of 1918, ch. 82, the jurisdiction of Balti-
more City extends beyond the bridge.

TELEGRAPH TO HOUSE OF CORRECTION.

1882, ch. 156. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 757.

782. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall keep and main-
rain, at their own proper cost and expense, the line of telegraph from the
House of Correction, in Anne Arundel County, to the police headquarters
in Baltimore City, transferred to them by the Board of Public Works,
and are invested with all the rights and privileges granted to telegraph
companies under the General Incorporation Laws of the State in the
working and maintenance of this line.

THIEVES AND PICKPOCKETS.

1864, ch. 38. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 758. 1916, ch. 652.

783. It shall be the duty of all police officers and detectives in Balti-
more City to arrest and take before some one of the station house justices
in Baltimore City all persons whom they shall find in Baltimore City or
upon any train, boat, car or other vehicle commonly used for the trans-
portation of passengers which may be bound to or from Baltimore City
whom they shall know or have good reason to believe are common thieves or
pickpockets, and said police justices shall commit or bail such persons for
trial before the Criminal Court of Baltimore; and if any person in Balti-
more City shall be charged on oath before any station house justice in
Baltimore City or before the jndge of the Criminal Court of Baltimore
with being a common thief or pickpocket, such justice or judge shall issue
a warrant for the arrest of such person and commit or bail him for trial;
and any person convicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore of being a