Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-12-12

asWa'chmen, or have care II public property
or OF private property at the exPenss VI tn ,
owner, IN spseisl cases, in SID District.
IWenty-sixthly. And said B Jard may prepare
snd submit 10 said Regents such ordia Iuc 5 ss
u may regard as an appropriate exercise OF tue
police authority.
Sec. IS. That no regulation or practice shall
allow any ore 70 be appointed or 10 main on
tho police force who Is not q citizen of the
nited States, who is not twenty one years OF
age, VINO has not good moral charact who
has ever been convicted OF crime, unless par
doned on the ground that the Conviction was
erroneous,) who cannot read and write the
English Language Understandings, who Is not
faithful to the Union and the Constitution or
who does not actually reside in said District
The members of the police shall devote their
whole time to the discharge of the duties herein
authorized, and shall not engage in any other
business, or accept any position or membership
In any partisan organization. And the name,
police service and the date of appointment
then etO shall be posted in a public place in
every station house in said District, where such
list can be easily read. The name of every
person applying to be appointed on the police
force and OF every person appointed shau be
given to the public press for publication. No
member Of the police force, under penalty
draw CT resign except by permission in
writing from the Board. and every charge
duly made against any member of such
force shall be fully Investigated, notwith-
standing any resignation or withdrawal by such
member, and the result OF the sams shall be
forthwith entered on the minutes As il no res
ignation had been made. Any person making
comp laint that crime has been committed
may be called upOn by the Secretary or Super
ntendeDt or any pers IN in charge OF a police
station, to make oath or ati m alton to any fact
bearing thereon within the knowledge or in
formation Of such person, aud a refusal so to
do shall be forthwith entered upon tina polica-
minutes OF any station where such complaint
or refusal may be made. No member Of the Po-
lice Board, or holding any position hereunder,
snail be liable to military or jury duty; nor,
while actually engaged in the diSchar GO ut polio
duty, shall any such person be liable to arrest
on civil process, without the cOnsen of said Su-
peTinteDdent. Every member OF the police
force, and every person holding place of au-
thOutty therein, or under the Board shall have
regularly numbered, showing the date of APP
polntInent, and the same shall be authentic 4
ted by the seal of the Board and by the sigma
ture OF the Secretary aud President thereof
which shau be prima- iacie evidence of the facts
therein stated.
Sec. So. That the BOarC, 81 I'll cause records to
be kept OF all complaints and arrests, specify
ing and classifying the crimes charged; aud, as
far as practicable, records OF the Intermediates
ana hnal disposition made by judicial OIL GERS
of each person arrested. The Superintendent
shall annually make report to the Board, and
as much ottener as required, concerning his do
ings and the condition OF the force; and the
Board shall make an annual report to said Re-
gents, covering all the particulars, $50 far as
within the sphere of the P0licl Board,) which
are required TO be stated in the report of the
Board CT Health, but especially showing the
extent and kind of all offences, crimes, and ar
rests, which shall be regularly classified. And,
generally, said Board shall keep such records
"a will show all its own action, and all import
ant action of its officers and msn, aud NAV
point out how laws and ordinances are dis
Obeyed, and make suggestions for improved ad-
ministTati0D in said District.
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