Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-11
CITY INTELLIGENCE.


WAsHinGfoS, UcroBkh Al 1896.
Sra: You airs hereby notified that the ninth rule
OF the regulations for the government Of the police
department is annulled Tar as it relates TO the
tendance Of Police Magistrates Of the Second Third
and Fourth districts at the Central Guard house and
that b. X. Morsell Esq, viii attend at that station
until otherwise ordered and further, that you IN no
event must call upon j. 81 HoIlingshead, or allow
him IN any way TO Interfere with the business Of the
night watch -
TO Captain JOINS Minis,
Captain Auxiliary Guard.
The ninth rule 10 be found on page Sl3 Of Cor
poration Laws lis annuled." Why, our Mayor
must have the stomach Of ostrich. he certainly
has swallowed and digested the Digest Of our Corpo-
ration Laws. "a Daniel come 10 Judgment" He
thinks more Of annulling" whole acts aud parts
of acts than OF prescribing the contents of apoth
ecary shop for the cure of the measles | There 10
this difference however, the Doctors patients swal-
lowed his prescriptions and paid for them, too, bat
the Mayors "annulnents," though comparatively
harmless, II taken at all will only be takensmiss.
La the Mayor aware that IN annuinE the ninth rule
be annulled nullitys of course not, or he would
not have attempted its annulment Fond as lac Is Of
"pomp and circumstance we do non believe that he
so utterly Lost 10 decsncy and proprety as, for the
sake Of mere bombast TO try and make the world be-
lieye that he had snnuled provision of law which
never bad being. No, no-this Llpsus psnN0 is TO
be attributed 10 the Mayors ignorance He did not
know THAI the regulations for the government of
the police department. the 9Th rule of which he has
30 pompously "annulled, had never been approved
by the City Councils, and that consequently they are
In the same condition bis unconfrmed appoint
monts--that is, null and void. He is or was, Ia
bhssfol Ignorance Of this and therefore is entitled 10
all the credit Of usurping power which the charter
wisely withheld from wiser and better men
But this "annuled" nudity is only annulled" 80
FAR as ID relates 10 the attendance of police magis-
rates OF the second third and fourth districts the
central guare-housel
Does not the Mayor know that the attendance of
these imagistrstes at the Central Guard-house is
mere matter of convenience to the Police Coustables
as u prevents the necessity of their taking cases for
trial before nine o'clock IN the morning, before the
Police Magistrates OF the different districts in which
the offences were committed as by law they are COM
PEELED to do at the request of the defendantY
Section 8, of chap. J. Police Organization provides
that warrants shall be issued BY the Police Magis-
trate OF the district in which the offence NAV be com
mitted, cor by some other Police Magistrate acting
for him. and shall be made returnable to himself to
be heard and determined before him. as the defend
ant may select
This is the law. How, then, can the Mayor pro-
hibt Squire Holingshead from trying offences com
mtted 10 his districts Where does he find authority
for his interferenceg
Mr.. Hollngshead has decided that none of the
Mayors appointments are bona tide without the sane
ton of the Board of Aldermen and he has refused TO
acknowledge them such. This gave mortal offence
ference with bis ego hence his attempted interior
ence with this gentleman. What has the Mayor to
do with Police Magistrates? They are not appointed
BY him. They created by the joint action of the
two Boards. They exercise their functions according
to the laws passed by Councils and are not subject
TO the dictum of the Mayor! They are above him as
the law is above him. They the Interpreters of
the law, the infiictOrs of its penalties and if the
Mayor, in their Judgment unlawfully exercises the
power with which the law invests him, they are
bound TO repudate such action and to refuse &C
knowledge the instruments Of ha will as the officers
Of the law.