The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-13
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An act to amend an act entitled An act 70 ere
ste ! Metropolitan Police District of the Dis
trict of Columbia, and to establish Police
therefor, y approved August six, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-one
Belt enacted BY the Senate and House Of Rep.
reseutatires of the United States of America IN
Congress assembled, That the act entitled : An
act to create Metropolitan police district OF the
District of Columbia, and to estaonsh ponce
therefor" approved August six, eighteen nun
dred and sixty one, be, and the same Is hereoy
amended as follows: ,
Sec. 1. And be it further enacted, That all
property, or money alleged or supposed TO nave
been feloniousiy obtained, or which shall be lost
or abandoned, and which shall be Thereafter Ia
ken into the custody of any member Oh tne NE NE
tropolitan police force, or criminal court OF the
District of Columbia, or which shall come INTO
custody of any Justice of the peace, snail De, py
such member or justice, or py order OF salu court
given into the custody Of and kept by an officer
who shall be appointed and may be removed py
the Board of Police, known as . property clerk
of the Metropolitan police district, and all such
property and money shall be particularly regis
tered by said property clerk in book kept for
that purpose, which shall contain also record
of the names of the persons from whom such
property money was taken, the names OF all
claimants thereto, the time of the seizure, and
any final disposition of such propertyand money.
Whenever property or money shall be taken from
persons arrested, and shall be alleged tc have
been feloniously obtained, or to be the proceeds
OF crime, and whenever so brought with such
claimant and the person arrested before some
magistrate for adjudication, and the magistrate
shall be then and there satisfied from evidence
that the person arrested is innocent OF the offence
alleged, and that the property rightfully belongs
to him, then said magistrate may thereupon in
writing order such property or money to be re-
turned, and the property clerk, if he have it, to
person himself, ind not to any attorney; agent or
clerk of such accused person. If any claim to
the ownership of such property or money shall
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behalf of any other persons than the persons ar
rested, and the said accused person shall be held
for trial or examination, such property or money
shall remain in the custody If the property clerk
until the discharge conviction of the persons
accused All property or money taken on sus-
picion of having been feloniously obtained, or
of being the proceeds of crime, and for which
there is other claimant than the person from
whom such property was taken, and all lost pro-
perry coming into the possession of any member
OF the said Metropolitan police force, and all
property and money taken from pawn-br brokers as
the proceeds of crime, or by any such member
from persons supposed to be insane, intoxicated,
or otherwise incapable of taking care of them
selves, shall be transmitted as soon practicable
to the property clerk of the Metropolitan police
district to be duly registered and advertised ior
the benefit of all persons and parties interested,
and for the information of the public to the
amount and disposition of the property SO taken
into custody by the police. All property and
money that shall remain IN the custody of the
property clerk for the period of six months with
out any lawful claimant thereto, after having
shall be sold at public auction, and the proceeds
of such sale shall be paid into the polfcemen's |
fund: Provided, That horses and other animals |
taken by the police and remaining unclaimed for |
twenty days may be advertised and sold upon |
ten days public notice, and all perishable prop
erty to be sold OF once. If any property or mon
ey placed in the custody of the property clerk |
shall be desired as evidence in any police or other
criminal court, such property shall be delivered
to any officer who shall present order to that
effect from such court; such property how ever,
shall be retained in said court, but shall be re-
turned TO said property clerk, to be disposed of
according to the previous provisions of this act
And the annual compensation of said property |
clerk, as also the clerk (who shall hereafter be !
known as secretary of the board of prlice) shall |
be twelve hundred dollars each, payable month
ly:
Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the Board of Metropolitan Police
to set apart a sanitary police company, to con-
sist of not exceeding ten persons, who shall be
selected from among the police, and to assign to
said company such especial duties, by the rules
geous and also to appoint not exceeding three
surgeons of police, who shall receive an annual
compensation of three hundred dollars each, and
discharge such duties may be required of them
by the board of police. The Metropolitan SANTA
~ company is hereby empowered, under such
distribution of power and duty may be made
by the rules and regulations, 10 visit and make
of all ferry-boats, manufactures and
tenement houses and edifces
suspected of, or charged with being unsafe and
to attend to such ether matters relating to health
as are complained of and entered upon the com
plant 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 edi-
ices, and to make report of inspection and action
in the premises to the Board OF Metropolitan Pc
lice. Whenever said board shall be satisfied by
such report that any ferry-boat, manuflctory,
tenement-hOuse, or edifce is
or that any other act is being about
10 be committed, in a manner prejudicial to the
ives or health of the public it SHALL after due |,
entry upon its minutes of the circumstances
cause complaint to be made, founded upon such
-eport and circumstances, before any magistrate
1.-THE metropolitan police district who shall in
summary way, upon such complaint made under |
)atn, issue hia proper warrant, reciting therein |
ne name of the member or members of the Me- |
sanitary police company, for the ar
est OF any person in charge of said ferry-boat, |
slaughter-house, aforementioned |
md edifice or otherwise committing any act that |
nay be derogatory to the public health, to the
md that he may be brought before such magis-
rate, and the complaint of insecurity of the life
'r health of the public so made be duly inyesti-
sated according to the law of examination into
nlsdemeanors. If said magistrate shall be salts
LED, on O summary hearing thereof that such
narge or insecurity of the lives or health of the
'uohc Is founded reasonable and probable |
ausc, ne may, by his order in writing command
ny such ferry-boat to cease running or any
BUSINESS IN such mandatory or slaughter-house
cease, or impose such fine as by law NAV be
ttached to such offence upon the person so of
ending, until the cause of complaint aforesaid
bal! be removed to the satisfaction of the Board
4 Metropolitan Police.
TO BE CONTINUED.