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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1874
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JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 623

SUB-SECTION F. The chief of police and the police

 

officers shall do duty by day and by night, and shall

Shall do duty.

have and exercise within the city and precincts,

 

during their continuance in office, the same power

 

and authority as county constables now have, and

 

shall also enforce its ordinances and the various laws

 

and acts of Assembly relating to said city ; but they

 

shall not serve any civil process, except in cases

 

of penalty arising out of such ordinances, laws or

 

acts.

 

SUB-SECTION G. It shall be the duty of the city

 

police officers to collect the fines that may hereafter

To collect the

be imposed by the mayor, councellor or any one of

flues.

the aldermen, or any justice of the peace, for viola-

 

tions of any of the laws of the said city; and they

 

shall pay said fines into the hands of the city treas-

 

urer as soon as received, and take his receipt therefor,

 

which they will deliver to the chief of police, to be

 

preserved by him and returned to the board at each

 

regular monthly meeting thereof.

 

SUB-SECTION H. The chief of police and each mem-

 

ber of the police force shall provider himself with

 

and wear whenever on duty the following uniform,

Shall provide
himself with

viz: a dark blue single-breasted frock-coat with

 

policeman's buttons, with standing collar, with a

 

badge, with suitable device on the outside of the

 

left breast of the coat, in such manner and place as

 

that it cannot be obscured by any portion of the

 

raiment ; and dark blue vest and pataloons, straw

 

hats in summer, and dark blue caps, with glazed

 

covers in winter, and dark blue cloth overcoat with

 

same buttons in winter.

 

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall

 

take effect from the date of its passage.

In force.

Approved April 11th, 1874.

 


 

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