Year: 1863

CHAP. CLXXXI.-An Act to amend an aOt entitled


An Act to create Metropolitan Police District


of Columbia, and to establish 3 Police therefor


approved August six, eighteen hundred and sixty


one. -#


Enacted by ths Seuate and House Of Rsprsssuia-
tires of the United States of America an CoRqrsssas
seBsbIed, That the act entitled An act to create
Metropolitan police district Of the District Of
Columbia, and to establish police therefor" ap-
proved August six, eighteen hundred and sixty-ono
:
Sec. l. And be it further enacted, That all pro-
perty, or money alleged or supposed to have been
feloniOusly ATTAINED or which shall be lost or abaa
dOned and which shall be thereafter taken into
the custody of any member Of the Metropolitan
police force, criminal court Of the District OF
Columbia, or which shall come into custody Of anv
justice of the peace, shall be, By such members oF
justice, or by order Of said court. given into the
custody Of and kept by officer who shall be ap-
pointed and may be removed by the Board Of Police
known as property clerk'' Of the Metropolitan po-
lice district and all such property and money shall
be particularly registered by said property tIerk in
boOS kept for hat purpose, which shall contain
also record Of the names Of the pers0Ns from whom
such property money was taken. the names Of al
claimants thereto, the time of the seizure and any
final disposition OF such pTOpertp and money
Whenever property or money shall be taken from
persons arrested and shall be alleged to hava been
feOniously obtained to be the proceeds Of crime
and whenever so brought with such claimant and
the person arrested before some maristrsfs for adj
J
there tatisted from evidence alleged and that the
property rghfuly belongs to him, then said magis-
trate may thereupon, in writing, order such pro-
perty OF money to be returned, and the property
clerk, il he have it, to deliver such property or
money to the acbused person. If any claim 10 the
ownership Of such property OF money shall be made
on oath before the magistrate By or in in behalf
Of any other persons than the persons arrested and
the said accused person shall be held for trial or
examination, such property money shall remain
in the custody Of the property clerk until the dis
charge Of eOnuictiOn Of the persons accused All
property money teken suspicion Of having been
felOniously Obtaine or Of being the proceeds OF
crime and fof which there is ne other claimant


than the person from whom such property was taken
and all lost property coming into the possession Of
any member Of the said Metropolitan police force,
and all property and money taken from paHnhro-
kers the proceeds Of eFime' or By any such msms
Der from persons supposed to be insane intoxicated
or otherwise incapable cf taking Of themselves
shall be transmitted as soon as practicable 20 the
property clerk Of tho Metropolitan police district,
to be duly registered and adveFtised for toe benefit
of all persons and parties interested, and for the in
formation Of the public TO the amount and dis
position Of the property 30 taken Into custody By
the pJlico. All property and money that shall re-
mein in the custody Of the property clerk for the
period Of siz months without any lawful claimant


thereto, after having been three timss adVerrised


in public newspapers. shall be sold az pHb ic auc-
/ ton, and the proceeds Of such sale shall be paid
| in-O the policemen's fund.- Provided, That horses
and ether animals taken by tue police and remain
/ ing unclaimed for twenty days may be advertised


and sold uTOn ten days public notice, and al per-


isha5le property 10 be sold at once. IL any proper
I ty money placed in the custody Of the hrOperty


clerk shall be desired as evidence IN any police or


other criminal COURT such properly shall be deliv


cred to any officer who shall present an order 20


that effect from such COURTS such property. however


shall not be retained in said court, but shall b


turned to said property clerk, TO be disposed Of


Of according TO the previous provisions Of this act


And the annual compensation Of said property clerk


as also the clerk who shall hereafter be known e.
secretary Of Fhe board Of police shall be tRalza
hundred dollars each, payable mOuthly.


Sec. 2. And be it further enactsd, Tat a SIAN


be the duty Of the Board of Metropolitan Police "a


set apart sanitary police company, TO consist e
not excee eding ten persons, who snail be selected


psny such especial duties. by the rules and regulA


tiOns, may be publicly advantageous; and also to


appoint not exeeedinging three surgeons Of pOlrc0
/ who shall receive annaui compensation Of three


hundred dOlaes each, and discharge such duties as


may be required of them by the board Of police
The Metropolitan sanitary company is hereby en-


powered, under such distribution Of power and


duty as may be made by the rules and regulations,


to visit and make inspection Of al feTTy-bOats,


manufactures, slaughter-hOusss, tenement houses,
aud edihces suspected Of, or churged with, being


unsafe, and TO attend to such other matters rslat


ing to health as complained Of and entered up


on the cOmplaint-bOOk kep5 By order Of the board


and to take all necessary legal measures fer proot


ing The security Of life health generally, and up


on or in said boats manufactures. houses and ei-


fe and to make report Of inspection and action IN
the premises to the Board Of Metropolitan Polies-
Whenever said board shall be satisfied, hy such re-
port, that sny ferry boat, manufac'ury slaughter
house, tenement house; OF edikee Is maintained Or
l (CVncludsd on third Psgs.l