Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-05-11

sucb aneasures as they deem best for enforcing
the attendance Of children upon the schools:
whether any children within the prescribed
ages are not attending the schools; 10 see that
the forfeitures incurred by parents and euardi-
ans for neglesting TO send any child or ward to
school are enforced; 10 appoint clerk OF the
Board of Education; prescribe his duties; pro-
vide Hmm with an Office, necessary books and
stationery, fuel and lIghIs, and furniture; and
hx ard pay his compensation; TO keep a COM
plete record OF all their acts and proceedings
touching the schools; TO make 10 Congress an
nual report OF the condition of the schools,
showing the number, ages, and sex of the
pupils In attendance during the year: the
number and sex Of the teachers the compen-
saron allowed each teacher; and all other
matters deemed by them important.
sUPERINTENDENT 81 OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
II shall be the duty OF the superintendent of
weights and measures TO take charge and use
every precaution for the perfect preservation
metal be not uched with The hands, or other
wise soiled, abraded, or injured: to use said
standard to adjust and verify all weights and
measures brought 10 him for the purpose: 10
brand or mark with the letters o. @. and the
current year, such weights, measures, bal
ances, or other apparatus for weighing and
measuring, as, upon trial or ad ustment, shall
be found correct: to prove, by said standards
all patent balances, sIeelvards, platform scales
and other balances having poises, which NAV
be used in the District by dealers in articles
SOLD by weight and measure; TO deliver to his
successor, or 10 The commissioners, on yacating
ms once, all the standards, tools, and appara-
tus OF his office.
No sales OF goods, wares, or merchandise. bv
weight or measure, shall be made, unless the
weight or measure of the same be first ascer-
tanned by apparatus conformably with said
II any purchaser be defrauded by viola
ton OF the provision OF the preceding section,
he may susta In an action against the seller for
three times the price of the article sold
n4a -hn soil ~ os,rk,
uIe shall have his weights and measures verI-
he'd by and made conformable with said stand
ards once every year.
DUTIES OF THE BOARD OF POLICE
The duties and powers OF the board of police
are;-To preserve the public peace; TO prevent
CRIME and arrest offenders; TO protect the
rghts OF persons and property; TO guard the
public health; 10 preserve order at every pub
lie election; TO remove nuisances existing in
the public streets. alleys, highways, and other
places; TO detail proper police force at every
nre Tor the protection OF firemen and Of prop-
erfy; TO protect strangers and travellers at
steamboat and ship landings and railway sta.
tons; 10 see promptly enforced all laws for the
observance OF Sunday, and regarding cleo
tions, pawnbrokers, mock auctions, gambling,
intemperance, lottery dealers, vagranIs, dis
orderly persons, and the public health; to
make rules and regulations, from time to time,
Tor the government and discipline of its SUBJ
ordinate officers: 10 execute its duties so far as
they are merely ministerial, by means of the DO
Hceforcei toappoint superintendent of police,
X
ceedng $50, any additional number Of patrol.
men TO do duty al any place within the Dis.
frict, upon the application and at the charge
and expense OF any person, as many special
patrolmen. without pay, from among the citi-
zens, as II may deem advisable, and for a
speeined tune, upon any emergency of riot,
pestilence, invasion, insurrecuon, or during
any day of public election. ceremony or Gel.
ebration; 10 require AID make suitable pro-
vision respecting security to be entered into by
the superintendent Of police, and by the SER
geanfs of police, and for taking, by the men,
bers Of the police, of an oath OF once and the
registry OF the same to designate place. and
a person, who shall be called the properly
clerk Of the Metropolitan police district for
doned properly, taken by the members Of 1.-THE the
police force; to appoint not exceeding SIX de-
teetiyes; to appoint no one TO office, or TO hold
once In the police force who cannot read and
write the English language, or who is
not citizen Of the District, and a Cit
iZen Of the United States, or who shall ever
have been indicted and convicted OF crime;
to reappoint no person to any Office in the
police force who shall ever have been removed
from the police force for cause; 10 remove no
one from Office in the standing police force,
except upon written charges preferred against
MIN TO the board, nor till after an opportunity
shall have been afforded him OF being heard IN
his defence. Ts define and prescribe particu-
larly, by rules and regulations, the oualid,a-
tions Tor office, mode Of trial, and removal
from ohice, OF each officer of the regular police
force; TO remove a local patroiman at any
upon one months notice OF the intention TO do
so given to the person who applied for the an
pointnent; TO present to each local and epecial
patroiman an emblem to be worn by him du-
ring his service; TO enumerate and distribute
the duties OF each of said officers: to diyide the
District into precincts, not exceeding ten: TO
assign one sergeant Of police TO each precinct;
TO establish, from time to time, q station or
sub-station in each precinct, for the accommo.
dation Of the police force on duty and "a
places OF temporary detention Of persons ar.
cinct; to select from time to time q justice of
the peace 70 sit at each station house, to hear
charges against persons arrested and carried
tnere; TO provide suitable accommodations in
premises other than those employed for the
confinement OF offenders, for witnesses in
criminal cases, detained because unable 10 give
security for their appearance: to detail and
change, as they may deem from time TO time
advisable. without regard to Limitation Of resi-.
dence, the sergeant or patrolman to any part
OF the District or any police or criminal
eminent Of the United States or OF the 6is-
trcit; to promulgate all regulations and or
ders through the superintendent Of police.
The police authorities are to order military as.
sistance in aid Of the civil authorities-to ueli
riots; suppress instructions; protect property:
preserve the public tranquility; to issue sub.
ppnas, attested in the name Of the president OF
the board, to compel the attendance of witness
rs upon any proceeding authorized by It's rules
ana regulations; TO exercise general police su-
pervision and inspection over eyery licepsed
ndckman or cartman; every licensed pawu-
broker; every licensed dealer In or vendor of
secondhand merchandise; every keeper of an
intelligence once; every auctione er OF watch.
es and Jewelry; every suspected private bank
ing house; and every doubtful establishment
In the District; and to empower members of the
police force to fulfil such special duties in the
premises aforesaid as IL may ordain; and 70 Sc.
lect and set apart from among the police A
"sanitary police company" to consist OF not
exceeding ten persons; 10 assign 10 SAID COM
pany such special duties, by rules and reeuia.
tons, as may be advantageous TO the public:
TO appoint not exceeding three surgeons OF no.
lice; 10 designate the duties to be performed bv
said surgeons; TO enter upon its minutes the
substance OF any report made to 1t by the sani
tary police company, setting forth that any
Terry boat, mandatory, slaughter. house
tenement house, or edifice, complained of ana
visited and inspected by them, Is main tanned.
or that any act is about TO be committed therein
in manner preiudicial TO the lives or health
OF the people: to cause complaint on oath. 10
combe made, founded upon such report and the
circumstances stated in it before a police mag.
istrate against the person or place com mrlained
OF; to cause the member OF the sanitary police
PAW 10 whom it shall be the duty of the mag.
lstrate to issue and direct his warrant; 10 arrest
and bring the party complained of before such
magistrate, that the complaint may be duly in
vestiRafed, according to the law for examining
into misdemeanors; TO cause the sentence
the magistrate to be carried into execution,