Mayor of Baltimore v. State ex rel. Board of Police
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeals from the Superior Court of Baltimore city. The question involved in these cases, is the constitutionality of the Act of 1860, ch. 7, amending certain sections of the.
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Appeals from the Superior Court of Baltimore city. The question involved in these cases, is the constitutionality of the Act of 1860, ch. 7, amending certain sections of the. Code of Public Local Laws, relating to the police and general1 powers of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and repealing other sections, relating to the police of said city, and the power of the Mayor and City Council to establish and regulate the same, and inserting in lieu thereof sections for the purpose of providing a permanent police for the city of Baltimore. In the first case, the four commissioners…
1Opinion of the CourtTuck, J.
Whether the present case possesses an unusual degree of importance, in view of the circumstances which, it is said, rendered necessary the passage of the law uuder review, or of the supposed difficulties which may attend its practical operation, if the judgment below be affirmed, is a question with which the court lias no concern. It involves considerations of expediency and public policy of which the Legislature was the exclusive ju.dge, and which, we must assume, were fully weighed and determined when the Act was passed.
In another aspect, however, its consequence has not been undervalued by…
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