The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-23
CHAP. CCXV.

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An Act to amend the Acts approved August six,
eighteen hundred and siXty-one, and july six
teen, eighteen hundred and sixtytwo estab
fishing Metropolitan Police in the District of
Columbia, to increase the Efficiency thereof,
and for other Purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentativeS OF the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the chief executive Of
ticer of the police shall hereafter be styled major;
the present sergeants shall be called ieutenants
the roundsmen called sergeantS, and the patrol
men called privates; and that, in addition to the
officers and employees the commissioners of the
metropolitan police, in the District of Columbia
are now authorized to appoint one captain, who
shall be the inspector of the force, command it in
sickness or absence of the major, and perform
such other duties as the said commissioners may
direct; one clerk in the office of the major, who
shall have charge of the records of ihe sanitcry
company, and perform such other duties as the
major. by direction or with the approval of the
commissioners, may prescribe; twenty sergeants,
and fifty patrOlmen or privatsS.
Sec. q And be it further enacted, That the
provisions of the sixth section of the act of July
sixteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, author
izng the selection of justices of the peace by the
board of police, to Otcate at the respective sta
ton-houses, be construed to provide for the hear
ing of all cases of offence against statutory, cor
pOration, or common law, of which the said board
is charged by law with the execution; and all
fines imposed by any justice within either OF the
jurisdictions OF the metropolitan police district
shall he, by the justices imposing the same paid
into the hands of the treasurer of the board of po
lice, on lhc first Thursday after the same shall
have been collected, who shall duly receipt thnre-
for in duplicate to the credit of the city county
within which the offence was committed; and
such justice shall, in each case, return the orgi
nal receipt to the treasurer of the same jurisdic-
ton; and the treasurer OF the police board shall
pay over such sums monthly to the proper Off
GERS OF said cities county, upon proper re-
cepts, except as hereinafter provided.
Sec 3. And be it further enacted, That from
and after the expiration of licenses already grant
ed it shall be unlawful for any person persons
keeping an ordinary, restaurant, saloon, or other
place where sprituous liquors are sold within
the District of Columbia, to give, sell, dispose
of any Intoxicating drinks without license ap-
proved by the board of police; and hereafter no
such license shall be considered legal by any of
the authorities having jurisdiction within said
district, until the same shall have been approved
BY the board of police and so certified by the Sec
rotary thereof under the Office seal.
Sec 4. And be it further enacted, That the
board of police shall provide specific rules for
uniform clothing of the police force, which shall
be procured by each of the members thereof re-
spectivcly, strictly in conformity with such rules
at his own expense and risk, and he shall be re-
moved from such force for not complying with
such rules.
Sec 5. And be it further enacted, That from
and after the passage of this act the property
clerk of the metropolitan police district shall be
vested with all the powers now conferred by law
upon notarics public in the District of Columbia.
He may administer oaths and certify dispositions