Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-01

ant with ten watchmen.
The expense of this force is as follows:-
Salaries Of Marshal and Assistant. 90
Pay Roll Of Watchmen 4,042 30
Keeping prisoners and feeding poor lodgers... SO 81
s5,795 81
Extra police for July 4h and 9th, Muster and
Cattle Show DAYS, and Sunday p Ice...... 3T9 90
Expenses warrants and removing nuisances. 1853 rs
50 388 81
Add to this amount for washing blankets.... IA so
And there is total Of ............. SO, sO3 IL
Deduct fees Of Marshal and watchmen paid into
the Treasury: .................-....... 4s4 o5
Fees earned by Marshals and watchmen to Dec.
26sh, and due to the City Treasury. 36l n
$l.845 "A
partment for the present year the sum Of 50T 80
The number of complaints made at the Police
Court the present year up to Dec. goth. is 957,
against 1904 for the whole of the year 1866
The Committee aware, however, that in
this examination other considerations should
have weight Has the peace of the city been
preserved Has right been indicated, wrong
suppressed, and order maintained
In the opinion of the Committee, the Police
Department proved equal to the demands for its
service.
1t may not only challenge the jud lment of an
impartial community, but it may also dare COM
parison with the management OF former years.
II, as is charged, there has been remissness in
instituting complaints for breaches of particular
statute, justification for apparent negligence may
be found in the policy of the government itself;
or excuse, if necessary, in the want Of success
which attended the efforts of its predecessors to
enforce such laws.
The year has been peculiar and somewhat try
ing to the Police, on account of the unusually
large number of its public days.
Yet through the two days of the celebration of
our National Anniversary-through the three
d1u o. 80 H.
Regiment Of Militia, and the three days of the
State and County Agricultural Exhibitions, the
most fastidious could find no just cause of COM
plant Notwithstanding the multitudes which
thronged the city on the occasion of these sever
al celebrations, everywhere the "peace of the
city was preserved, add its order maintained"
During the year, the Police have furnished
lodgings to 672 poor persons, who, in their jour
neyings from city 10 city, have found themselves
in our midst, destitute of the means of procuring
the necessaries of life.
Most of this humber have been furnished with
food, and the Overseers of the Poor have been en-
trey relieved from any expense on account of
this class of persons.
The Committee have no means of knowing to
what extent relief of this kind was furnished in
former years.
The books of the Police Office were found to
have been well and carefully kept; a full record
as contemplated by the ordinance concerning
City Marshal and Police having been kept during
the year.
The original entry book, required by the third
section of said ordinance, for period of over
year and half prior to January, 1856, is not in
the office, and the Committee recommend that
measures be taken to compel its deposit, in the
office from which it could not rightfully have been
removed.
The Committee would fail to discharge the du
ty imposed upon them, if they closed their report
without abiding to one other matter which was
brought to their notice.
By the 9th and 7th sections of the Ordinance
which creates the office and prescribes the duties
OF City Marshal and Assistant Marshal it is pi o.
vided that these officers shall receive certain spec
flied sums :" in full for all their services" said
sums, or salaries "to be paid only to such AS
sistant Marshals as shall have paid over to the
City Treasury the fees required of him ?''
The fees required to be paid oven as above were
"any fees as witnesses, or penalties in any Grim
inal case, or for service Of any criminal process
or for any services in behalf of the city,
There is abundant evidence that fees as wit
nesses and for service of criminal process, &c.,
were earned by the Police Department of the city,
and its Marshals and Watchmen, subsequent to
the month of 0cthber, 1866, and up to January,
1856.
There is equally conclusive evidence that these
fees have never been paid into the City Treasury,
amp yet these officers have been paid their sala-
RES IN full, The inquiry 10 pertinent one -
Where is the money! In whose hands are these
a. fees" which of right should be in the City
Treasury Who is responsible for their payment
to the City? That some one has got the money
will not be denied. Is it the former Clerk of the
| Police Courts Is it the Assistant Marshal and
Watchmen? Who is it?
The Committee are able to report that it is not
| the city. The money is, as the lawyers would
| say, an hGnsitw. And in view of the fact that it
| is wrongfuly Withheld from the City Treasury, tn
| Committee would recommend that the matter be
referred to the City Solicitor, with directions to
make such examination and institute such pro
| ceedings against the person or persons in whose
| hands he may be satisfied the money is, as shall
| cause the same to be deposited at an early day
| into the City Treasury.
In conclusion, the Committee desire to express
| their entire appreciation of the manner in which
the Police Department has been managed the
| past year.
The Marshal has at all times responded prompt
y Ito the calls for his SERVICE and in the opinion
of the Committee the city will be fortunate if it
shall be able to secure his services in the future
| In view of the fact that the Marshal has done a
large amount Of service, without charge, for which
| in previous years that officer has received such
sum as he chose to exact, which service required
the use of horse, this Committee recommend
the allowance to the Marshal Of the sum Of one
hundred dollars.
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