Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26

on a warrant issued by the Trustees of the
Police Pension Fund, signed by the Chair
man and the Clerk thereof.
The Trustees of the Fund.
Section constitutes the Mayor, Control
Ter, Presidents of Councils, Chief of the De-
partment of Public Safety, Superintendent
of the Bureau of Police, and one member of
the police force, elected annually by the po-
lice of the city, to be Trustees of the fund,
with right and power to invest and reinvest
in bonds of this city, county or State, so
much of the fund as may not be needed for
its specific purpose and all gains or increases
secured by Investment to be added to the
fund.
Under section the legal representatives
of any policeman who while in performance
of duty and without fault or misconduct on
his part receives an injury which results in
his death, shall be entitled to $1,000 for the
legally dependent on him for support. If
permanently disabled in proper perfor-
nance of duty policeman will be entitled
to receive pension during his natural life
partially disabled the amount of his salary
at the time of injury shall be paid to him
for a period not exceeding 26 weeks.
Any policeman who shall have served on
police duty for 81 years or over, or who shall
have served part of that time on the fire de-
partment and been transferred to the police
bureau, shall, upon application, be retired
upon half the pay he was receiving prior to
retirement for the balance of his natural
life.
The seventh section provides for complete
and detailed annual reports of the WORKINGS
of the Board of Trustees, itemiZed schedules
of all moneys received, invested and dis
bursed and the name and causes of each dis
bursement, schedules of investments and
reinvestments made and copies of all re-
celpts and vouchers by it received.
New Bureau of Health Quarters.
A communication from Chief Brown, stat
ing the necessity for securing new quarters
for the Bureau of Health, owing to the
Seventh street fire, was accompanied by a
lease for two front rootns in the University
building ON Diamond street for five years at
81 200 per year, including light, heat and jan
itor service, which was approved
The April reports OF the Departments of
Public Safety, Works and Charities were
read received ana MEG; A. res0n6'on ls0 noo r an.
priated for the Improvement of Halket,
Roup, Calvin and Vine streets, and Center
and Grandview avenues, was adopted
Other papers presented and properly re-
ferred were as follows:
Ordinance authorizing construction of
public stairway connecting Cedar ana
Juniper streets, Sixteenth ward; ordinance
for sewer on woolslayer alley and Main
street, from Friendship to Penn avenues;
authorizing the Marvin branch of the United
states Baking Go; to a1 construct F1r., rJrd prdi
petition for water pipe on Taylor street;
ordinance authorizing the construction of
public bridge in the Fourteenth ward and
the appropriation and condemnation of pri-
vate property therefor, and authorizing the
giving of security to secure and Indemnify
the owners thereof; an ordinance providing
for the creation of fund for the care, main
tainance and relief of aged or disabled po-
HCemen.
Resolutions recommended by the Control
the East End Electric Light Company, and
$2s7 O5 to Houston & McShane, plumbers,
were approved.