The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-30

una, ut 6cHcTQt Assembly, cOHCeNel. mat the
parishes of Orleans, Jefferson. and ST Bernard
are hereby constituted and territoraily united for
the purposes OF police government aud police dis
cipline therein, into one district, which shall be
known and called The Metropolitan Police Dis
tTot of New Orleans, State Of Louisiana"
SIC. 2. Be ii further enacted. etc., That the
powers and duties connected with and incident to
the police government and discipline of the said
district shall be as hereinafter more especially
provided for, vested In, aud exercised by board,
consisting Of five commissioners, one to be q resi-
dent of the city Of Jefferson, to be styled the
Board Of Metropolitan Police, and by metropoli-
tan police force, composed Of a superintendent OF
metropolitan police, surgeons of metropolitan
police force, captains of metropolitan police force,
sergeaDts Of metropolitan police force cor?orals
of metropolitan police force, patrolmen of metro
poitsn police force, clerks and doormen Of metro
poliian police force.
eEc. g. Be further enacted etc., That the
said commissioners OF metropolitan police shall be
appointed by the governor Of the State of Louis
lana, with the advice and consent Of the Senate,
and shall hold and occupy the said offices of com.
missiOners for the term of office Of the governor
who may appoint them PTouidsd, That the COM
missioDers appointed shall continue TO hold
Office until their successors shall have been duly
appointed and qualified. Not less than three of
the said commissioners shall constitute quorum
(but either Of the said commissioners may. at any
time, be removed by tue governor Of tie StateJ
under the provisions OF the statutes relating TO the
removal from office, which provisions are hereby
extended go as to relate 20 each one Of the said
commissioners and in all cases where charges are
made against a commissioner, he shall have an
opportunity to present evidence 10 his behalf.
SIC. 4. BE Il further enacted etc., That If any
one of the said commissioners Of the metropolitan
police, or any member Of the police force shall,
during his term of Office. accept or hold any other
place Of public trust or civil emolument, or SMALL
during his term Of office, be publicly nominated
for any Office elective by the people, and If he
shall not, within ten days succeeding the same,
publicly decline the said nomination, he shall
be deemed thereby as having resigned his
commission, and be compelled to yacate his
Office.
SEC g. Be ii further enacted, etc That the
said metropolitan police force shall consist of not
ore than one ID Superintendent or less than two
~ police surgeons, six (6) tans, emit four
(24l sergeants, - eorporsls, twenty -four ga
clerks, (OperatOrs), i've hundred and seventy.fve
(575) patrolmsn and forty tour doormen, a super.
intendent and assistant superintendent of police
telegraph.
SIC. 6. Be further enacted etc., That the
persons severaly appointed co nmssioners Of
metropolitan police by virtue of this act shall, be-
fore exercising any of the duties thereof, duly
take and file In the Office OF the secretary of state
the oath of Office and affidavit Of eligibility pre-.
scribed for State officers. immediately upon re-
ceiyiDg said cath of Office the secretary Of state
shall issue to each commissioner a certificate OF
his appointment, wbereupon he shall possess the
power and exercise the duties Of commissioner
of metropolitan police.
SEC. Z. BE IL further enacted etc.. That the
said Board Of Commissioners shall appoint the
superintendent, the police surgeons, the captains,
the seTgeants, the cOrporals, the patrolmen, I'd
clerks aud the doOrmen of the said metropolitan
police force, to the number authorized by this
act; and the said Board Of Commissioners shall
prOnulgate all rules, re gulatlons and orders to
the police force through tie superintendent Of
police, who shall be the executive head of the
whole force of the metropolitan district, aud who
shall have direction Of the said police force sub
ject to the rules, regulations and orders Of the
raid b ard Of Commissioners.
SIC. s. BE IL further enacted, ETC., That ga d
officer snd memoer of said metropolitan police
.I.l Ill -
- behavior. and shall be liable to removal from
Office membership of the said police force only
after written charges shall have been preferred
81 he aid beard q ta 10 psis6s
shall ever be appointed to Office or membership
Of the said police force who is not citizen ofthe
United states or Of this State, or whoever has
been convicted of crime, who is disqualified by
the fourteenth article of the Constitution of the
United states, or by the terms OF article ninety
nine of the Constitution of this State.
SEC. .. BE IL further enacted ETC.. That those
portions Of The metropolitan police district WHICH
conlritue 10 the police fund, aud auth jrizs the
appointmentGf patrolmen, shall be divided by the
- bCaId of metropolitan police into precincts, MT
exceeding ia the aggregate one precinct TO each
ore hundred of the patr0lmen authorized to be
appointed. The came board may appoint as many
captains as precincts, and assign one captain aud
as many se'seants. corporas and patrolmen as
they shall deem sufficient to each precinct Any
number of said precincts may be joined into a
sub district by the said board and assigned to the
charge of police surgeon Of police force.
SIC. 10 BE IL further enacted etc., That the
board OF metropolitan police shall provide such
Office and business accommodations as IL shall
deem requisite for the transaction of its oWn bust
and that OF its subordinate officers subject TO
approval by The auditor Of public accounts and
treasurer OF the State. There shall be a central
Office in the city of New Orleans, to be known as
% the CeDtfsl Department of Metropolitan Police.
SIC. IL. BE Il further enacted, etc., That va.
canoies IN the police force shall be filed up as
follows: captains must be appointed from among
seTgeants and seTgeants from cOrporals, and cor
poIsls must be appointed from among patromen.
Sac. IL. BE u further enacted, etc., That the
Board Of Metropolitan Police may, upon any
emergency or Apprehension of riot. tumnlt, mob,
irsuTTeotiOb, pestence or invasion, appoint as
many. special policemen without pay from
among be citizens as it may be deemed proper
During any day of puble election il may also az.
iTict) not exceeding five hundred special police.
men, who may be paid out of the metropolitan
district fund three dollars per day will be con.
sidered a recompeDse for such services as po-
hcemen; P,ouided, That each special policeman
so appointed shall make oath before any commits.
soner Of police, at the time of appointment that
he vii not interfere in any manner with the cleo.
ton tsking place during the day or days for which
he is appointed, otherwise than by depOsting his
own vote, and providing that such pay may be
withheld and he may be duly prosecuted as tor
zzisdemeanor if the terms of such oath be vic.
lated. And during the service of any such spe-
cisl policeman. authorized as aforesaid, he shall
possess all the powers and privileges and perform
all the duties that may be. by order aud regula.
tons, from time 70 time prescribed. Every such I
special policeman shall wear badge TO be pre-. |
scribed and furnished by the Board Of Metropo. /
Titan Police force. |
SEC. Is. BE 70 further enacted, etc., That no 4
person OF persons shall be eligible to or compe- |
tent 10 hold the Office Of commissioner of metro. |
politan police except he be citizen Of the dis |
uict OF metropolitan police and resident therein.
kEC. Ia. BE Il further enacted ETC., That the |
lieutenant governor Of the State shall be en- |
oficio a member and president Of the Board of !
Metropolitan Police. He shall preside at the |
meetings of the board, and whenever a vacancy |
shall occur in the Office OF superintendent OF me. |
tropoitan police force. aud 10 the absence or dis.
ability OF the said superintendent, the president
shall possess all the power aud perform all the |
cuties OF that Office subject - the orders, rules /
and regulations Of the Board of Metropolitan |
Police. And bis pay shall be at the same rate
as the superintendent duriag suca continuance
Of duty. 4
SIC. Is. BE q further enacted ETC., That the /
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