ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 499

necessary under such rules and regulations as they may from time to time prescribe, and the said Board shall have power to remove any police
officer, or officers of police, or any detective, for the violation of any rule or regulation, which they may make and promulgate to said police force,	Detective.
officers of police and detectives, said force shall consist of one marshal and deputy marshal of police for the citj, and one captain, two lieuten- ants, two-turnkeys, and such number of sergeants as said Board of Police, in their judgment, may deem necessary, for each police district in said city, and five hundred men, which force may be increas- ed at any time, if in the opinion of the Board the public peace shall require, to any number, and for such period of time, as they may think proper by the appointment of special policemen, who shall receive the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per day for their service; the period of appointment in the regular police force shall be four years, un- less sooner removed for official misconduct; and the qualifications for the position of officer of police or policeman, or detective, shall be good moral character, sobriety, citizenship of the United States, ability to read and write; and physical strength and courage; no person who has been convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary shall be eligible	Police officers.
to the position of officer of police, policeman, de- tective or special policeman. The pay of an ordin- ary policeman shall be eighteen dollars per week, payable semi-monthly, and in case the Board shall appoint detective policemen, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to do so if they shall think fit, to the number of ten, said detectives shall receive each the sum of twenty dollars per week, payable semi-monthly, and shall not be allowed to follow any business or profession, but shall devote their whole time to the discharge of their duty as detectives; the officers of police shall be paid semi-monthly, and their pay shall be as follows; the marshal shall receive twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, the deputy marshal shall receive two thousand dollars per annum, each captain twenty-two dollars per week, each lieutenant twenty-dollars per week, each sergeant nineteen dollars per week, and each turnkey fifteen dollars per week, the pay herein provided for the	Pay of Police.