Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-30

Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, that il
shall be the duty of the board of metropolitan
| police to set apart sanitary police company
to consist of not exceeding ten persons, who
| shall be selected from among the police, and
| to assign to said company such especial du,
| ties, by the rules and regulations, as may be
| publicly advantageous, and also to appoint
not exceeding three surgeons of police, who
| shall receive an annual compensation of three
hundred dollars each, and discharge such du-
| ties as may be required of them by the board
of police. The metropolitan sanitary compa-
ny is hereby empowered, under such distribu-
ton of power and duty as may be made by
the rules and regulations, to visit and make
inspection of all the ferry boats, manufacto-
ries, slaughter houses, tenement-houses, edi-
fees, suspected of, or charged with, being
unsafe, and to attend to such other matters re-
lating to health as are complained of and en-
tered upon the complaint book kept by order
of the board, and to take all necessary legal
measures for promoting the security of life or
health generally, and upon or in said boats,
manufactures, houses, and edifceS, and to
make report of inspection and action in the
premises to the board Of metropolitan police.
Whenever SAID board shall be satisfied, by
such report, that any ferry boat, mandatory
Slaughter-house, tenement-house, or edifice
is maintained, or that any other act is being
about to be committed, in manner prejudi-
cial to the lives health of the public, it SHALL
after due entry upon its minutes of the cir
cumstances, cause complaint to be made,
founded upon such report and circumstances,
before any magistrate Of the Metropolitan
police district, who shall, in a summary way,
upon such complaint made under oath, issue
his proper warrant, reciting therein the name
of tho lOpnIbpr n,O ,nnlbars ut tba Motropnl
itan sanitary police company for the arrest of
the person in charge Of said ferry boat, man
ufactory, slaughter.house aforementioned,
and editice, or otherwise committing any act
that may be derogatory to the public health,
to the end that he may be brought before
such magistrate, and the complaint of inse-
curity Of the life or health of the public so
made be duly Investigated according to the
law of examination into misdemeanors If
said magistrate shall be satisfied, on sum-
mary hearing thereof, that such charge of in
security of the lives or health of the public
is founded on reasonable and probable cause,
he may, by his order in writing, command
any such ferry-boat to cease running, or any
business in such mandatory or slaughter
house to cease, or impose such fine as by law
may be attached to such offence upon the per-
son so offending, until the cause of complaint
of the board of metropolitan police.
Sec. 81 And be it further enacted, That if
any member of the Metropolitan police force.
or if any two or more house-hoiders shall re-
port in writing, under his or their signature,
to the superintendent of the Metropolitan po-
lice force that there are good grounds (and
stating the same) for believing any house,
room, or premises within the said Metropoll-
tan police district to be kept or used as a
common gaming house, common gaming
room, or common gaming premises, for there
in playing for wagers of money at any game
Of chance, or to be kept or used as a bawdy
| house, or for lewd and obscene public amuse-
ment or entertainment, or as a house of pros
ttution, or for purposes of prostitution, or the
deposit or sale of lottery tickets or of lottery
policies, it shall be lawful for the superintend-
ent Of Metropolitan police to authorize any
member or members OF the police force to en-
ter the same, who shall forthwith arrest all
persons there found offending against law,
I and seize all implements of gaming or lottery
! tickets, or lottery policies, and convey any
person so arrested before the nearest police
magistrate, and bring the articles so seized to
the Office of the board of metropolitan police
1t shall be the duty of the said superintendent
Of the metropolitan police force to cause such
/ arrested persons to be vigorously prosecuted
such articles seized to be destroyed, and suci
room or houses to be closed, and not useC
again for such unlawful purposes.
| Sect. 4. And be it further enacted, that the
| board of metropolitan police shall posses
| powers of general police supervision and in
| spection over all licensed pawnbrokers, Ii
! censed vendors, licensed hackm0n and cart
men, dealers in secondhand merchandise
intelligence Office keepers, auctioneers Of
foI,,
banking houses, and other doubtful establish
ments within the said metropolitan police dis
trict; and in the exercise and furtherance OF
said supervision may, from time to time, en-
| plOy members of the police force to fulfil such
special duties in the aforesaid premises as may
be ordained by the board of metropolitan po-
lice. The said board may direct the superin-
tendent to empower any member of the met
! rOpolitan police force, whenever such member
! shall be in search of property feloniously OBJ
| tanned, or in search of suspected offenders, to
examine the books of any pawnbroker or his
! business premises, or the business premises
! of any licensed vender or dealer in second
| hand merchandise, or intelligence office keep
er, or auctioneer of watches and iewelry, OF
suspected private banking house, or other
| doubtful establishment. Any such member
! of the metropolitan police, when thereto au-
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| and having in his possession a pawnbroker's
receipt or ticket, shall be allowed to examine
| the property purporting to be pawned OIL
| pledged, or deposited upon said receipt OF
ticket, in whatsoever possession said prop
erty may be; but no such property shall be
| taken from the possessor thereof without due
| process or authority of law. Any wilful in
| reference with said superintendent of police
| or with any member of the metropolitan pc.
| lice force, by any of the persons hereinbefore
| named in this section, whilst in official and
due discharge of duty, shall be punishable as
a misdemeanor.
| Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, that the
board of Metropolitan police may from time
| to time, but without expense to the United
| States. establish stations and station houses,
| or sub-statons and sub-station houses, at least
one to each precinct, for the accommodation
thereat of members of the police force, and
as temporary places of detention for persons
arrested and property taken within the pre-
cinct. No person holding office under this
act. or the act to which this is an amendment,
| shall be liable to military or jury duty, nor to
arrest on civil process, or to service of sub
ppnas from civil courts whilst actually on du-
| ty. The members of the board of police, the
superintendent, and secretary, are hereby
| vested with all the powers conferred by law
upon notaries public and justices of the peace
| in the District of Columbia. The members
of the board Of police, and of the police force
of the said Metropolitan police district, shall
possess in every part Of the District Of Col
umbia all the common law and statutory pow
ers of constables, except for the service o.
civil process and for the collection Of strictly
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