HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

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States, ability to read and write, and physical
strength and courage; no person who has been
convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary,

Qualification.

shall be eligible to the position of officer of
police, policeman, detective or special police-
man; the pay of an ordinary policeman shall
be eighteen dollars per week, payable semi-
monthly; and in case the Board shall appoint
detective policemen, and they are hereby au-

Disability.

thorized and empowered to do so, if they shall
think fit, to the number of ten; said detectives
shall receive the sum of twenty-three dollars
per week, payable semi-monthly, and shall
not be allowed to follow any business or pro-

Detectives.

fession, but shall devote their time to the dis-
charge of their duties as detectives; the
officers of police shall be paid semi-monthly,
and their pay shall be as follows: the Mar-
shal receive twenty-five hundred dollars per
annum; the Deputy Marshal shall receive two
thousand dollars per annum; each Captain

Wages.

shall receive thirty dollars per week; each
Lieutenant twenty-five 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 an act of the General
Assembly.

Officers'
wages.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 2, 1886.

Effective.