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2. Twenty-Five per centum of all fines collected in money for violation of any ordinance.
 8. All rewards to members of the Po- lice Department, except such as shall be excepted by the Commissioners.
 9. The Treasurer shall retain from the pay of each member of the Police Force two dollars a month, which shall be forthwith paid into the Police Relief and Pension Fund. No other or further retention or reduction shall be made from such pay for any other fund or purpose unless the same is herein au- thorized.
 Sec 12 When a request is made for regular policemen to be detailed at any place of amusement or entertainment, ball, party or picnic, the party or per son making such request shall first de- posit two dollars and fifty cents for each man so detailed with the Property Clerk of the Department, who shall give him a receipt for the same, and such sum shall be at once paid into the treasury to the credit of the Police Re- lief and Pension Fund.
 Sec. 13. On the last day of June of each year, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the Auditor shall make a report to the Supervisors of all moneys paid out of such Fund during the pre- vious year, and of the amount then to the credit of such Fund. The surplus then remaining in such Fund exceeding the average annual amount paid out of such Fund during the three years next preceding shall be transferred to and become part of the Surplus Fund, and shall be no longer under the control of the Board, or subject to its order. Pay ments provided for in this Chapter shall be made quarterly upon proper vouchers. When in any one year a de- f1ciency shall exist in such Fund, such deficiency shall be provided for and made good by the Supervisors in their next ensuing tax levy.
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CHAPTER ".
Fire Companfes.

SECTION 1. Each Steam Fire En- zine Company shall be composed of not more than one Captain, one Lieutenant. one Engineer, one Driver, one Stoker and five Hosemen.
 Each Hook and Ladder Company snail be composed of not more than ono captain, one Lieutenant. one Driver, one I1llerman and eight Truckmen.
 Each Chemical Engine Company shall De composed of not more than one Cap- tam, one Lieutenant, one Driver and one Hoseman
 Each Water Tower Company shall be composed of not more than one Cap tain, one Driver and one Hoseman.
 Each Fire Boat Company shall be composed of not more than one Cap- tain, one Lieutenant, one Engineer, one Assistant Engineer, two Bremen, one Pilot and twelve Hosemen.
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the Police Department shall consist or Captains, who shall each receive an annual salary of twenty-four hundred dollars; LieutenantS, who shall each receive an annual salary Of sixteen hundred and eighty dollars; Sergeants, who shall each receive an annual sa4dry of fifteen hundred dollars; and Corpor. als who shall each receive an annual salary of fourteen hundred ana iouh dollars.
 Sec. 2. There shall be one Captain for each one hundred police oIncers; The duties of Captains shall De oenLeu by the rules and regulations or the Commissioners and by the orders oi 'he Chief of Police. .
 Sec. 3. There shall be one Lieutenant for every fifty police officers. The ou, ties of the Lieutenants shall be denneo by the rules and regulations or the Commissioners, by the orders or the Chief of Police, and by the orders or their respective Captains.
 Sec. 4. There shall be as many Ser eeants as in the judgment of the Com missioners may be advisable, not to eX- ceed one Sergeant for every ten police officers. The duties of Sergeants shall be defined by the rules and regulations of the Commissioners. the orders or the Chief of Police, and the orders Of thelr respective Captains and LieutenantS.
 Sec. Q. mere Sndl De dS lidiiS WI porals as in the judgment of the Com missioners may be advisable. The du- ties of Corporals shall be defined b. the rules and regulations of the Commits sioners. the orders of the Chief of Po- lice, and the orders of thelr respective Captains, Lieutenants and Sergeants.
 Sec. 6. The Chief of Police may detail for detective duties such members or the Department as he may select, not to exceed twenty-five. He shall desig- nate a Captain of Police to act as Cap tain over the officers so detailed who shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars. Such Captain shall rank as Captain of Detectives and his duties shall be defined by the Commis- sioners and by the Chief of Police. The members so detailed shall be known and ranked as Detective Sergeants. Each of said Detective Sergeants shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars. They may be re- moved at any time from such detail by the Chief of Police. Their duties shall be defined by the rules and regulations of the Commissioners, by the orders of the Chief of Police and by the orders of the Captain of Detectives.
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CHAPTER VI.
Police Officers.

SECTION l. The Police Force of the City and County shall not exceed one Police Officer for each five hundred in- habitants thereof. Police Officers shall receive an annual salary of twelve hun- dred and twenty-four dollars.
 Sec. ?. Every Police Officer shall, upon the arrest of any person charged with the commission of crime, search the person of such offender, and take from him all property and weapons, and forthwith deliver the same to the prison keeper, who must deliver the same to the Property Clerk. to be kept by him until other disposition be made thereof according to law.
 Sec. 3. Police Officers shall be health officers by virtue of their office.
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CHAPTER TX.
Department of Electricity.


 SECTION 1. There is hereby created a Department of Electricity, which shall have charge of the construction and maintenance of the Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph and Telephone Sys- tems, and shall be under the control of joint Commission composed of the Board of Fire Commissioners and the Board of Police Commissioners.
 Sec. 2. There shall be appointed by the Board of Fire Commissioners and Board of Police Commissioners, acting in joint session, practical and skilled electrician, who shall be called the Chief of the Department of Electricity, and who shall have general supervision of the Department of Electricity. He shall receive an annual salary of twen- ty-four hundred dollars.
 Sec. 3. The Joint Commission may appoint such assistants as may be nec- essary to keep the electric and tele- phone systems in working order; but of those assistants appointed, no opera tor or inspector shall receive more than twelve hundred dollars year, and no repairer, lineman, batteryman or in- strument-maker shall receive a salary of more than ten hundred and eighty dollars a year.
 Sec. 1. The Fire Department and the Police Department shall each have sole control over its own systems and wires.
 Sec. 5. Any citizen. firm or corpora tion may, for the purpose of police or fire protection, be connected with the Police or Fire Signal System, or Tele- phone or Telegraph System, upon mak- ing fair payment for the connection and use of the same. Such rates of payment shall be fixed by ordinance of the Supervisors; but no connection shall be made so as to interfere with the use of the main line.
 Sec. 6. The Department of Electri- city is also charged with the duty of en- forcing all the rules, regulations, or
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CHAPTER VIII.
Unclaimed and Stolen Property.

SECTION 1. All property or money taken under suspicion of having been stolen or feloniously obtained, the re- suit of crime or constituting the pro- ;eeds of crime, and all property or money taken from intoxicated or in- sane persons, or other persons incapa- ble of taking care of themselves or property or money lost or abandoned that may in any way come into the possession or custody of any member or the Department, or of any Criminal Court or Judge of the City and County, shall be delivered to the Prop erty Clerk. who shall enter in a Record Book, to be kept by him for that pur- pose, full and explicit description of the same, together with the name of the person or persons from whom re- ceived, the names of any Claimants thereto, the time of the seizure. and the final disposition thereof.
 sec. 4 when property or money taken rom any person arrested or otherwise under suspicion of having been feIoni ously obtained, or of being the proceeds or crime, is brought with the claimant thereoI ana the person arrested. before a court TOT examination and adjudica- tlon, and the Court shall adiudge that the person arrested Is innocent of the ofense alleged, and that the pronertv or money belongs to him. if shall or. der such property or money returned to the accused. and the Property CIarlr shall thereupon deliver such propertv V or money to him personally. but moi to ms attorney or agent. If upon such hearing the accused shall he held for trlaI or examination, such property or money shall remain in the custody of the Property Clerk until the discharge or conviction of the person accused
 sec 5. All unclaimed propertv and money that has been in the custody of the Property Clerk for one year shall be sold at public auction. after having been i've times advertised in the official newspaper; and the proceeds of such sale shall he naid into the treasury to the credit of the Police Relief and Pen sion Fund. In no case shall such nron- erty be sold or disposed of until tha na- cessity for the use thereof as evidence has ceased. The proceeds of property taken from insane persons shall moi become part of such Fund until after the expiration of three years from the time the same is paid into the treasury. but the Commissioners and the Chief of Police shall. during such nar,od make diligent inquiry to ascertain the person or persons to whom the same should by right be payable.
 Sec 4. If any property or money in the custody of the Property Clerk be re- vuisu dS eNloence Tn any Court if shall be delivered to any officer who shall present an order Tn writing to <. that effect from such Court. and the Clerks of such Court shall be responsi ble for the safe delivery of such pron- erty or money to the Property Clerk.
 Sec. 5. All valuables and money in the custody of the Property Clerk shall be deposited by him for safe Keeping with the Treasurer in such manner and subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Board.
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ARTICLE xI.
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTIONS.
 CHAPTER I.
Board of Election Commissioners.


 SECTION 1. The conduct, manage ment and control of the registration of voters. and of the holding of elections. and of all matters pertaining to cleo tions in the City and County, shall be vested exclusively in and exercised by a Board of Election Commissioners. consisting of five members, who shall be appointed by the Mayor, and shall hold office for four years Each of the Commissioners shall receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars. Each member of the Beard must be an cleo tor of the City and County at the time of his appointment and must have beer. such for five years next preceding such time. Those first appointed must immediately after their appointment so classify themselves by lot, that one shall go out of office at the end of one year. one at the end of two years. one at the end of three years, and two at the end of four years.
 The Mayor shall not make any an pointmert upon the Board at any i'm "a before thirty days prior to the tin,e when such appointee is to take office TWO or the i've members first appoint. ed shall be chosen from each of tho +,,. = political parties casting in the City ana County the highest vote for Govarnor or Electors of President and Vice ic''uchI. .S the case may be at the last preceding general election Tbe nth member shall be chosen from inc political party casting the third biebast such vote at such election. if there he sncn rhird party. and if not then at the discretion of the Mayor. ITnon inc expiration of the term of office of any Commissioner. the appointee mnst he chosen from the same political nartv . . the retiring Commissioner consistently with the foregoing provisions as to equal representation at all times of inc two political parties casting the high est Vote at the general election last nre- ceding the appointment in ouestion a. prescribed in this section.
 Sec. 2. No mer1her of the Roord ro- Hee1strar. nor Denutv Registrar sha1I curing his term of office he a member or any convention the nnrnose of which IS to nominate candidates for office: TOT be e'ieible to any other munieipaj ofhce during the term for which he shall have heen appointed. or for one year thereafter; nor act as officer of any election or primary election: nor take part in any election except to vote and when ac+'nr as Election Com missioner. at which time he shall per- form only such official duties as may he required of him by law and by this Charter
 Sec. 3. The Commissioners shall or
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CHAPTER III.
The Chief Engineer.

SECTION 1. The Board of Fire Com- m1ssloners shall appoint Chief Engl- neer, who shall be charged with the special duty of experimenting the ex- t1nguishment of fires. The Chief En- glneer shall be the chief executive off, cer or the Fire Department, and it shall pc his duty and that of the Assistant Chlef Engineers and of the Battalion Cnlers to see that all laws, orders, rules ana regulations in force in the City and county, or made by the Commissioners concerning the Fire Department, arc enforced.
 Sec. 2. The Chief Engineer may sus- peno any subordinate officer, member or employee of the Department for in- competency, or for any violation of the rules and regulations of the Fire De- partment, and shall forthwith report in Wrltlng such suspension, with his req sons therefor, to the Commissioners for thelr action. He shall diligently ob- serve the condition of the apparatus and workings of the Department and report in writing thereon at least ones a month to the Board and make such recommendations and suggestions re- Spectlng the same as he may deem proper. In the absence or inability of the Ch1ef Engineer, an Assistant Chief Engineer shall perform his duties.
 Sec. g. The Chief Engineer, or, in his absence, the Assistant Chief Engineers, or, Tn their absence, any Battalion Chief Tn charge may, during a conf1agration, cause to be cut down or otherwise re- moved any buildings or structures for the purpose of checking the progress of such cOnf1agration
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to incapacitate him from performing his duty, the Commissioners shall allow his salary during the continuance of such temporary disability.
 Sec. 4. The Commissioners shall see that all contracts awarded and work done for the Department are faithfully performed, and shall, upon the award Ing Of any such contract, exact an ade- quate bond for the prompt and faithful performance of the same.
 The provisions of Article II, Chapter III, Of this Charter in regard to the ad- vertising for proposals, the affidavit and security accompanying the same, the presentation and opening of pro- posals. the aw cding of contracts and the security for the performance thereof, shall. so far as the same can be made applicable, apply to all pro- posals and contracts made. awarded or entered into for furnishing Supplies to the Fire Department. Any contract made in violation of any of the provl- slons of this Chapter shall be void.
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CHAPTER VI.
Fire Wardens.

SECTION 1. The Chief Engineer. As- sistant Chief Engineers. Battalion Chiefs and the Fire Marshal shall con- stitute Board of Fire Wardens, with power to inspect and report to the Board of Public Works as to the safety of buildings and other structures within the City and County
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ders and requirements made by ordi- nance of the Supervisors in regard to the inspection and supervision of elec- trical wires and appliances, and the currents for furnishing light, heat or power in and upon streets and build ings in the City and County.
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Civil Service examination; but all new appointments and all promotions made after this Charter shall go into effect shall be subject to and governed by Article XIII of this Charter
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CHAPTER Tx.
Present Police Force.

SECTION l. All members of the present Police Force in good standing in the Department at the time this Charter goes into effect. and the Park
 Police. shall continue therein without
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-08-05
ABOUT THE SMALL GUNS.
They Play a Most Important Part in
Harbor Defense Where Great
Gums Would BE Useless.

Much has been written of the big guns
that were to defend the harbors. In the
system Of defenses the smaller guns
play q most important part, both to sup
plement the work of the great rifles
and to be used against bodies of men
who otherwise might carry the works
by assault, For direct service against
attack by men the great guns are USE
less. Their value is altogether in the
powerof destruction possessed by them,
says the New York Press.
The smaller guns of the United States
artillery service are made In scores of
styles and are designed for all the diff
ferent kinds of service for which gun
can be needed.
Among the smaller arms which have
been adopted by the ordnance depart
ment of the United States army in the
lastyear are six-pounder rapid-fre guns
to be used either behind ramparts or In
the open against landing parties, three
inch, 1o-pounder rapid-fre guns for
rampant or easements, five or six-inch
rapid-fire guns for use with moving
troops. Gatling, Maxim and briggs
Schroeder guns and nll sizes and styles
of small siege mortars and rifled can
non
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-08-05
CARRIER PIGEONS IN WAR.
"A Proposal Has Been Made to Use
Them on the Scouting Vessels
on the Coast.

The experiments which the French
government is now making with carrier
pigeons are not novel, though from the
scientific way in which they are being
conducted it is believed that new data
as to the efficiency of these swift birds
as messengers IN time of war may be
gathered. Similar experiments have
been made in this country recently, not
ably those under the management of
Howard Carter, of the naval homing
pigeon service of New York, says the
Sun.
1t is calculated that the pigeons fly
at rate varying from 80 to 60 miles IN
hour. This means that message from
a ship 200 miles at sea might be sent to
the home loft in from four to five hours.
For instance, if the pigeons were re-
leased from a scouting vessel to give
warning of the approach of an enemy's
vessel or feet they could beat the aver
age patrol boat to shore by ten or IL
hours over a 200-mile course. Such ad
vance warning would be of great value
In an emergency. 1t is proposed, in
case of war, to place crates of these
pigeons on board the fastest patrol
boats which may be assigned to out
SIDE duty.
Mr.. Carter's method of training pr
geons differs materially from that of d
few years ago. lie flies his birds singly
or in pairs at distances ranging from
ten to 900 miles from the home loft.
When they are released in pairs he
sends a slow bird with a swift one. He
found that the old style of taking
basket full of birds and releasing them
at varying distances in lots of ten or
Is didn't fit the pigeons for swift flights
when they were released singly. The
New York loft broke the record for $50
miles in 1896, and it is believed that if
the necessity for using pigeons arises
those from this loft will do good service
m This mort
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-08-05
MONSTER HAWSERS.
Dig Ropes Used in the Navy for
Cables and Towing Heavy
Vessels,

The largest cable of modern times is
the MANILA hawser which was sued to
tow the drydock to Havana. IL is %
inches in circumference, but it is by no
means the largest that ever has been
made, although it has the reputation of
breaking the record
There are at least two others of a
greater circumference, but both older.
One of these had circumference of %
inches, and was used for the purpose of
anchoring the ship North Carolina in
the navy yard at Brooklyn, while the
other was q 24-inch hawser, which was
used as a sheet anchor cable on the Ten
nessee, when she was stationed in the
Mediterranean in the eos.
Such an enormous rope was naturally
found to be unwieldy, a fact which was
abundantly demonstrated when the
vessel encountered storm in the Bay
of Naples. When the Tennessee re-
turned to her native home in America
the hawser was sent tothe oakum mills
and made into oaEum,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-08-05
SHIPPING FISH ALIVE.
A New and Simple Danish Method for
Delivering Finny Food
Far Inland.

A new method of transportation for
live fish from seaports into the interior
has just been patented by Danish fish
dealer of Copenhagen, and the system
is so simple and yet so perfect that one
wonders why it has never been thought
of before, says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. The inventor had a number of
large bags made of waterproof mate
rial. strong oilcloth appearing to give
the best results. These bags, after be-
ing filled with water and the fish to be
sent inland, are laced at the top and
either suspended In the cars from hooks
In the roof of the car OF from folding
frames taking almost no space and al
lowing the close hanging of these bags,
so that there is but little movement be-
tween the bags. They may also be set
upright alongside each other, but sus-
pension has been found to be prefer
able, particularly for long distances.
Several transports of fish made over
long distances have shown the splendid
features of the new system, for the fish
arrived in excellent condition after q
16-hour ride.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-08-05
THEIR ACCUSTOMED PLACES.
Ten of the Twelve Dnngerous-LOOEe-
ing JGrymen File Into the
Criminal Dock.

II have just returned from a trip to
the southwest" said lawyer, accord
ing to the New York Sun, "and when
ever happened to be in town where a
court was sitting made 1t my busi-
ness to go and see how justice was dis
pensed. In one town, which shall be
nameless, the trial of a man who had
been accused of shooting a neighbor's
dog was about to begin. found the
courtroom crowded with local charac-
tiers, each one of whom mounted at
least two rapid-flre guns, slick-oiled and
well loaded. Twelve of these fellows
had been drawn for the jury, and as
they staggered around it was easy to
see that they felt their own Importance.
BY and by there was an agitation near
the door, and in marched the Judge.
Seating himself on the bench he raped
for silence, and, acting as his own crier,
he shouted, in a massive voice:
The court will now come to ORDER
and it came. Another thump on his
desk, and then the judge said, in a de-
cisive fashion:
The gents who have been drawn
for the jury will now take their ac-
customed places
Twelve heavily armed men arose as
one man, and ten of them filed into the
dock"