ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

and one clerk at each station house, who shall
receive a salary of eighteen dollars per week,
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 and seventy-five 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 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 services ;
the period of appointment in the regular police
force shall be four years, unless sooner removed
for official misconduct and inefficiency, of which

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the said board of police commissioners shall de-
termine, and the qualifications for the position
of officers of police, or policemen, or detectives,
shall be good moral character, sobriety, citizen-
ship 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 to the posi-
tion of officer of police, policeman, detective or
special policeman ; 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 authorized 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 profession, but shall devote their time to the
discharge of their duties as detectives ; the offi-
cers of police shall be paid semi-monthly, and
their pay shall be as follows : The marshal
shall receive two thousand five hundred dollars
per annum ; the deputy marshal shall receive
two thousand dollars per annum ; each captain
shall receive thirty dollars per week ; each lieu-
tenant, twenty-five dollars per week ; each ser-
geant, twenty dollars per week ; and each turn-
key, eighteen dollars per week; the pay herein
provided for police officers, policemen and
detectives shall continue in force until a change

Qualifications.