The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-01-28

said commission shall eac1 receive L
per diem Of three dollars per day and
mileage, when actually engaged in
the discharged of their duties; pro-
vided the sums received by any one
commissioner during any one year
shall not exceed the sum of sixty dol
lars and five cents per mile. Neither
one Of said commissioners, except the
sheriff, shall hold any political office
other than that Of notary public.
Section 4. It shall be the duty Of
said police commission in each coun-
ty, on or before the fifteenth day Of
April, 1908, to organize by selection
of secretary and chairman, and they
shall, on. or before the said date, elect
chief Of police sor their county
and a number Of rural policemen
hereinafter provided for each respec-
tive county. The said chief and 9TH
er policemen shall each he selected
for a term Of eight months, from
the date of May, 1908, and each sub
sequent election shall be for a term
Of one year, from the first day Of
January Of each succeeding year.
Said chief and policemen shall be
subject to removal for cause by said
police commission at any time.
Section 5. The chief Of rural po-
lice in each county shall receive a
salary Of seventy-fve dollars per
month, and each rural policeman
shall receive salary Of sixty dollars
per month, to be paid at the end OF
each month out Of the ordinary funds
of the county upon the order of the
chairman of police commission of
each respective county. In addition to
the said salary, each Of the said po-
licemen shall be entitled to receive
the usual fees for serving civil pa
pers as may be placed in MS hands
by proper authority, but no fees shall
be charged in any criminal case by
any Of said policemen.
Section 6. It shall be the duty of
said chief Of police to take charge of
the rural policemen for his county,
and direct their movements and as
signed to each territory or beat
for regular patrol. Each Of said po-
licemen shall report to his chief,
either personally, by letter or by
wire, at MS own expense, at least
once in every twenty-four hours.
Each Of said policemen, including the
chief, shall keep and maintain a
! horse for his constant use, at his own
expense.
Section T. Said policemen shall be
vested with all the authority now
| vested in peace officers in this State.
They shall be under the supervision
and control Of their respective chiefs,
and shall cooperate with the sheriffs
Of their respective counties. and obey
and execute the proper orders relat-
ing to the preservation Of the public
peace. and the execution Of the laws.
throughout their counties. 1t shall be
their duty to see that all laws are
properly observed and enforced and
to see that this order and crime are
suppressed. They shall have author
ity to arrest any offender without
warrent, provided they procure a
warrant as soon thereafter as may be
convenient. They may swear out any
warrant before any magistrate, as
they are hereby given authority to
serve the said warrant themselves.
No policeman acting under this act
shall nave any other regular business,
and it shall be his duty to patrol his
section regularly. He shall have no
regular hours upon which to 60 on
duty, but shall consider himself a
conservator Of the peace at any and
all times. A police commission Of any
county may or may not, as they deem
wise, require the rural mounted po-
lice to wear uniforms at their own
expense.
Section s. The chief Of police shall
have his office at the county seat, and
wherever convenient shall maintain
at his own expense telephone in
same. He shall aave power and au-
thority to direct any policeman un-
der his charge to 60 anywhere in the
county for any purpose that may seem
to him wise, consistent with this act;
and he shall also have the power to
mass any number of policemen at
any point in his county, when in his
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