New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-04-28

The City Council has passed an ordinance
relative to a reorganization of the police Of
the city, which provides:
Sections one and twO-That it shall be
under the control eff the Mayor and Admin
istratOr of Police, and consist Of 800 en-
plOyes, at the following rates, of pay, viz:
One chief ct $4,000 four aids at $1,000; three
esptains at $l500; fifteen seTgeanJs 81
$1,000; twenty zone oOrpOrals at S04O; 30
patrolmen at 1920, and thirteen dOormen at
$3.50, making q total expense, including the
salaries of two physicians by section thirty
four, for salaries Of SOS, $50.
Section three gives the chief control; SEQ
ton four the power 70 suspend: section Ave
requires = visit nuer a week 10 each distrie',
anu src,i III Elk subjects the aide to his or
~.
Sections seven and eight refer captains
to existing ordinances for their duli9s, and
give them the power OF temporary suspen-
sion.
Sections nine, ten and eleven briefly pre-
scribe the duties of eergeants and COT
porals.
Section twelve requires clerks to be tele-
graph operators, and section thirteen d.
rectB the division of the force into night
and day police in the discretion of the chief.
Section fourteen describes the uniform of
blue, metal buttons, bands with Crescent
City Police, No. =" with metal badges for
officers; section fifteen authorizes the Mayor
and Administrators to contract for it and
the police TO PRy.for it out OF the first three
months salary, and section sixteen that
they shall provide rules and regulations.
Section seventeen requires that the police
shall be citizens of the United States and
of New Orleans, able to speak ANA write
English and recommended by three oiti-
zens, and section eighteen that they shall
receive pay when uniustly suspended.
Section nineteen authorizes the Mayor to
appoint supernumeraries; section twenty
prohibits improper interference with cleo
lions; saetiau tveniy-One preserihes the
duties OF the force in enforcing the laws;
section twenty-five makes the tenure OF
office during good behavior, subject 10 sus-
pension, that To be submitted to the board
of police commissioners; and section
twenty-three directs arrests for disturb
anee, aud also of all persons found uader
suspicious circumstances, and who shall
not be- able TO give q satisfactory account
CT themselves; and said policemen shall be
empowered TO enter any house, ipclOsure or
other place in which they have reason to
believe that any person is committing or
about to commit a breach of law or Ordi-
nRnoes.
Section twenty font. requires the keeping
of a memOrandunl OF. nHisanees; section
Twenty-Five requires bonds from lOOOO %
$1,000; section twenty six authorizEsa room
for the board; section twenty seven eOnAti-
tutes aeoruing Ones and fOrteitures char
itabls police fund to be disbursed by the
Mayor, sepafate account TO be kept Of II;
section twsnty-eight prohibits bribery, and
section tWenty-nine prescribes dismissal
| aud incspAcity for reAppointment as = pen
atty for meddling with elections, except go
| far as casting vote is concerned.
Section thirty giVes the administrators OF
| Police supervision, and section tbitty-One
requires reports for monthly pay rollA, the
| appropriation never to exceed Oue-twetth
of the amonnt allowed by the act.
Section thiFty.two authorizes the May or
to appoint four commissioners; seotiOn thtr-
/ ythree provides that the police and fire
alarm telegraph shall be under the ex-
elusive control Of the Administrator Of Po-
lice, who shall mEke al appointments BY
and with the eonsens'Of the Council, and
section thirty-fOur, that two physieiane
shall be elected at a salary. Of $500. ana.