JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

705

of the police or any detective for the violation of any rule or
regulation which they may make and promulgate to said
police force, officers of police or any detective; said police
force shall consist of one marshal and one deputy marshal of
police of the city, and one captain, two lieutenants, two round
sergeants, two turnkeys and one clerk at each station-house,
which clerk shall receive a salary of eighteen dollars per
week, and one lieutenant of the mounted police, who shall
have charge of the mounted force, with a rank and pay of a
lieutenant of police, and such number of sergeants as said
Board of Police in their judgment may deem necessary for
each police district in said city, and seven hundred men,
which force may be increased at any time, if in the opinion of
the board the public peace shall require, to any number and for

What force
shall consist
of.

such period of time as they may think proper by the appoint-
ment of special policemen, who shall receive the sum of two
dollars and fifty cents per day for their services. The pay of
an ordinary policeman shall be eighteen dollars per week,
payable semi-monthly; and in case the board shall appoint

Special police-
men and pay.

detective policemen, and they are hereby authorized and
empowered to do so, if they shall think fit, to the number of
twenty-five; said detectives shall receive the sum of twenty-
three dollars per week each, payable semi-monthly, and shall
not be allowed to follow any business or profession, but shall
devote their time to the discharge of their duties as detec-
tives; the board shall assign one detective to each police dis-
trict station-house; said detective to be under the direction
of the commanding officer of the district, and to operate from
said station-house. The officer of police shall be paid semi-

Detective
policemen and

pay.

monthly, and their pay shall be as follows: The marshal
shall receive two thousand five hundred dollars per annum;
the deputy marshall shall receive two thousand dollars per
annum; each captain shall receive thirty dollars per week;
each lieutenant, twenty-five dollars per week; each round
sergeant, twenty-three dollars per week; each sergeant, twenty
dollars per week, and each turnkey, eighteen dollars per
week; the pay herein provided for police officers, policemen
and detectives shall continue in force until a change shall be
made by law. They are are authorized and empowered to
appoint thirty -five additional officers, who shall be known as
probation officers, who shall hold their places without a com-

Compensation
of Marshal
and other
officers of
police.

mission until vacancies shall occur in the regular force. The
pay of said officers as appointed as aforesaid shall be twelve
dollars per week, to be paid at the same time in the same
manner as the other officers of said police force are paid; pro-
vided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be con-

Additional
officers.
Compensation.