New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-03-28
No. "a.
AN ACT

To provide for full and prompt payment
OF the members, officers and employees OF
the Metropolitan Police by authorizing
the issuance of additional warrants to
make up losses which may hereafter be
sustained by members officers and en-
plOyes by reason OF the depreciation of
Metropolitan Police warrants; TO make
ssch warrants so TO be issued for discount
receivable for taxes, by and chargeable
iprO rata) TO the general corporations of
the Metropolitan Police district, and to
provide a penalty for refusal TO receive
the same, and to limit the power OF the
Board of Police Commissioners to issue
such additional warrants.
WHEREAS, The act creating the Metro.
pOlitau Police force provided Tor and con-
templated the payment of the members, Of.
fcers and employees thereof in currency.
and from variety OF causes they have not
been so paid, but have been paid in paper
known as Metropolitan Police warrants,
which warrants have been at a discount,
varying from two TO forty per cent, and the
price realized by the sale of said warrants
is an Inadequate and insufficient cOmpensa-
ton for the arduous duties OF policeman,
while it materially IntertereS with the EN-
| cheney of The force.
Whereas, 1t is but just and proper that
the members, officers and employees OF the
said police force should be paid IN full the
several sums provided for by law. there
fore
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives OF the state
of Louisiana in General Assembly convened,
That SO long as the said Metropolitan PO-
lice warrants shall he at discount IN the
money market OF the city Of New Orleans,
it shall be lawful for the Board of Metro
politan Police, and they are hereby author
lied and directed to issue monthly 20 each
and every member, officer and empIoye OF
the police, in payment for services rem
dered, warrant ts'r sum sufficient to re-
alize in currency the amount severally due
said members, officers and employees at the
annual rate, as is severallv provided for in
sections 228l, 22Sj and 1856 Revised Statutes
of 1870: provided that the amount due
each member. officer or employee Of said po-
lice force shall be subject to the deductions
for neglect of duty, disObedience Of orders,
etc, ordered by the Board of Police Com
missOners, in accordance with section 5252
of the Revised Statutes of 1870.
SEC. ;. Be 1t further enacted, etc. That
for the purposes of securing uniformity II
the allowance for the amount Of discount
to which said police warrants may be sub
iected the average discount of said war.
rants in the city of New Orleans for the
last fifteen DAYS OF each month is hereby
declared to be the allowance which shall
be given to each member. officer and EN-
ploye OF the Metropolitan Police force.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, etc, That
the sums allowed as discount to the men,
bers, officers and employees of the Metro
pOlitan Police force shall be chargeable pro
rata to the several corporations comprising
the Metropolitan Police district, and the
same shall become debt against each Of
the said corporations, IN addition TO the
sum assessed and made final yanst said
corporations by the Board of Police Com.
mis~iOners on the sixteeneh day OF October.
1872, and that in any future assessments
made by the Board of Police Commissioners
against the several corporations comprising
the Metropolitan Police district. any dis
count to which said warrants may he sub
ject shall be a legal and proper charge
against the said corporations comprising
the Metropolitan Police district so long as
it may be necessary 70 issue said warrants,
and no longer.
SEC. 1. Be it further enacted, etc, That
all warrants for discount issued 10 the
members and employees OF the Metropolitan
Police force shall be and the same are
hereby made receivable for all parish and
municipal licenses and taxes within the
limits of the Metropolitan Police district,
70 wit: the parishes Of Orleans, Jefferson
and ST. Bernard, and the cities Qt New Or
leans and CarrolitOn, and that any parish
or municipal officer who shall refuse to re-
ceive said warrants so issued for discount
~ herein provided Tor the payment OF
taxes and licenses due to either OF said par
isles or cities comprising the Metropolitan
Police district shall, with his securities on
his official bond, be liable in sOlico to the
party or parties offering therein in al ac-
tUGi damages sustained by such party or
parties, and in exemplary damages for at
least double the amount OF taxes or licenses
50 refused to be received: provided. that
The allowance SO issued in excess OF the
regular salary OF the officers and members
o. the police force shall not exceed twenty
per cent of such salary due.
SEC. }. Be it further enacted. etc. That
whenever the Mayors Of New Orleans and
carrollton and the police juries of the par
ishes of st. Bernard and Jefferson shall pay
in money to the State Treasurer, as pro
vided by law, any portion of the said
amount chargeable against the said cOrpO-
!atiOns for police purposes and shall notify
the Board Of Police Commissioners Of the
same. it shall be duty Of the said police
commissioners TO pay the said money, when
turned over TO them, pro rata to the mem
bers. officers and employees Of the said
police force at the next monthly settlement
with the members, officers and employees Of
the police: provided the money in hand
shall! be sufficient 20 pay not less than zen
per cent of the amount due each OF the
members, etc, of said police
SEC. 6. Be ii further enacted. etc, That il
shall be the duty OF the Board Of Police |
Commissioners, in making their annual re-
port TO the Governor. TO set forth a state |
ment Of the amount Of warrants issued to |
The members, officers and employees of the |
police force for discount under the provi- !
siOns of this act.
SEC. :. Be il further enacted, etc. That |
all acts and parts O! acts in conflict with |
the provisions Of this act lie and the sameI
ARE hereby repealed.
SEC. s. Be it further enacted. etc. That |
the Board OF Metropolitan Police Commas
sioners shall have power and authority to
the police force OF the NetropoG-
tan Police district by removing and dis
missing such officers and men as said board |
may elect: provided. that the board shall!
The force within thirty days
from and after the passage of this act.
SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, etc. That
this act shall take ettec: from and after is
passage.
Signed, CHARLES ". LOWELL.
Speaker Of the House NJ Representatives.
Signed! G. {. ANTOINE.
Lieutenant Governor and P.es;dan: OF :he
Senate.
Approved March o. 1872.
Signed! WILLIAM ?. KEiIrGG..
Governor d. the STATE o. Louisiana.
= 80" copy:
WILLIAM WEEKS.
Assistant Srcr.tarv nf State.