Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1866, Page 1

1s PUBLISHED DAILY,(BACEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS Southsst cornero Penn's avenuc and 1th strcet BY EO 5 ‘Tne STAR is served by the carriers to their g@ubecribers im the City and Distric at TEN CENTS PER WEEK. Copies at the counter, with without wrappers, Two Cents each. Prict voR MalLrse:—Three months, -One Doliar and Fifty Cenis; sia months, Three Dol- ery; one year, Five Dollars. No papers sre sent from the office longer than paid for. Toe WEEKLY STAR—published on Friday merting—Omne Dollar and a Half « Year. Reconstruction in the District. AY THE CHAR- THPRS OF THE DISTRICT CITIES. ES ‘This bill, which was introduced in the Sen- ate by Mr. Morrill, was reported back from the District Committee on Wednesday with amendments. The bill as amended enacts that the several acts incorporating the cities of Wasbington and Georgetown, and amendatory of and in addition thereto, are hereby “ge and the legislative powers delegated to sai ewties are hereby resumed, and, till otherwise vided by liw. shall be exercised exclu- trey by Congress. . The executive officers of said District shall be three commissioners; a private secretary of She.President for the trict of Columbia; 2 solicitor of the District of Columbia; an as- sessor of taxes; acollector of taxes; a treas- urer, ‘a comptroller of the treasury; a clerk of the commissioners; an engineer or surveyor, {a board of health, consis! ot the commis- sioners No Pha —- ao of whom shal. princi; cian inordinary to the board of Realth and the other three con- sulting Lg perc a board of education, to consist o: ¢ commissioners, the private sec- retary of the President for the Di: ict of Co- jumbia, and a superintendent of public in- struction;}—[Vole.—The above paragraphs in brackets, providing for a board of health and board of education are marked in the amend- Ments as stricken out of the bill by the com- mittee, but as the subsequent sections of the bill- defining the duties of the board of health and board of education are not stricken ont, it seems to be in doubt what the action of the committee really was upon these points.— Editor Star.}—a superintendent of weights and measures; a boagd of police, consisting of the commissioners and six citizens of the District; @ police clerk: a superintendent of police: ten sergeants ot police: police patrolme: as the commissioners deem necesss men; superintendent of streets and highways; supervisors of streets and highways; fire de- partment, consisting of a chief engineer, neces- sary fire companies, each to cousist of fore- Man, engineer, one fireman, one hostler and six extra men; one hook and ladder company, to consist of foreman. hostler, tillerman, six eX!ra men, supernumeraries, as many as the commissioners deem necessary: fire alarm and police telegraph, consisting of superintendent, assistant superintendent, and three operators; @ water department, consisting ot the commis- sioners, superintendent and draughtsman. The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint the three commissioners; the private secretary of the President for the District of Colmubia; the solicitor: assessor of taxes, collector, treasurer; comptroller: engineer or surveyor; superin- tendent of police; superintendent of weights and measures: superintendent of streets and bighways: chief engineer of the fire depart- ment: superintendent of the water department: and all these shall hold their offices for the term of four years unless sooner removed, at the pleasure of the President. All the other executl officers shall be appointed by the commissioners, and shall hold their offices at the pleasure of the commissioners. The commissioners must be citizens must be citizens of the United States, domiciled in the District of Columbia, and not under twenty- five years orage. The private secretary of the President for the District of Columbia must be & citizen of the United states, and not under twenty-one years of age. The solicitor must be & member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and of Supreme Court of the Dis- trict. The assessor, collector, treasurer, comp- troller, and engineer or surveyor must be citi- zens of the United States, domiciled in the District. The medical members of the board of health must be physicians, whe have prac- ticed at least one year in the D:strict. The su- perintendent of weights and measures must be a citizen of the United States, at least twenty- one years of age, and must, before he can appointed, produce a ce! tency from the Superi Coast Survey. The board of police shall con- sist of the three commissioners, of three citi- zens of the city of Washington, one citizen of the city of Georgetown, and a citizen of the county quarter of the District. No rson shall be appointed to, or nold office in the po- lice force, who cannot read and write the Eng- lish language, or whois not a‘citizen of the United States, or who shall ever have been in- dicted and convicted of crime, aud who shall not have the qualifications prescribed or adopt- ed by the commissioners. ‘he superintendent of streets and bighw: must bea citizen of the United Sates, domiciled in the District. ‘The chief engineer of the department, the fire engine foremen and ineers must be domiciled m the District, and practical and skilful steam engineers. Section 5 of the bill sets forth the form of the bond and oaths to be taken by officers in the District. Sections 6 and? refer to forms of commis- sions and modes of filling vacancies. The followmg salaries shall be allowed to the officers, res: tively, payable from the treasury of the District quarterly, upon the comptrolier’s warrant :—To each commission- er, $2,500; to the private secretary ot the Pres- ident for the District, $2,000; to the attorney and marshal of the United States for the Dis- trict, each $6,000, as prescribed by the acts of Congress; to the assessor of taxes, —; to the collector of taxes, one-half of one per centum on the amount collected; to the treasurer, 1.600; to the comptroller of the treasury, @1.s00, to the engineer or surveyor, $1,000; to the cierk of the commissioners, $1,200; to the superintendent of weights and measures, ——; to the officers and members of the police force, the sation allowed by exi: laws; to the superintendent of streets and highways, to the supervisors of streets and 8, each, ——; to the officers and men of the fire department, the compensation now al- lowed by law or ordinance. The commissioners shall have power, and it shall be their duty,to take measures to pre- vent the introduc! of contagious diseases, and for the preservation of the health of the District; to establish and erect hospitals or pest-bouses; to prevent and remove nuisances; to provide for lighting, watering, and cleansing the District, and protecting it against fires; to Gesignate the places at which the fire compa- Bies sball be located; to regulate the manner of erecting private wharves. and fix the rates of whartage at the same: to regulate the station- mg, anchoring, and mooring of vessels: to Teguiate and establish markets; to open and keep ix repair streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, drains, and sewers, agreexbly to the plan of said cities; to take the care and chdrge of all the public roads and bridges iu the district; to lay out, alter, repair, discontinue, and regulate any of the public roads and highways; to cause ali necessary bridges to be erected and re- WaT eS Ty ORE cuore Pena TONS: road {hd at the time of the inquiry is, kept in ’FEondition required by the charter; and, if dot, to take legal proceedings to acquire pos- session of the same: to appoint yearly one gen- eral superintendent of roads, and sach number of supervisors or overseers as may be necessa- TY\ to require from each overseer before the end of each yeara report of the condition of the roaus and bridges in his district, and esti- mates of the probable amount required te keep the same in repair for the ensuing year; te remove Superintendent and overseers whenever in their judgment, there is suf. ficient cause, or the Public interest will be subserved thereby: to require, when- ever they shall deem it expedient or m the Overseers ; to fix, from time to time, the pay of the superintendent and overseers. to cause the land to be occupied by any road to -* be condemned in the manner prescribed for taking private property for public use: to cause material necessary for the construction ofroads and bridges, aud the repair of the same. to be condemned in like manner : to provide for the safe-keeping of the standard weights and measures as fixed by Oongress, and for the regulation of all weights aud measures used in the District; to assign to the supetintendent of weights and measures cu office in the City Hall, infwhich he shall keep suid standares ; to regas ate the sale of lumber and other buildiog materials, by requiring a previous inspection. thercof ; to Tegulate the sale of tobacco, floar, baiter. and Jard in casks and boxes, and of salted provisions, by requiring @ previous in- "pection of the same ; toregulute hackaey car- riages end fix their rates of fare ; and the rates of hauling by cartmen, wagouers, carmen, and ¢raymen-; id the rates of commission of Suctionrers: to establish and regulate fish wharves and docks: to suppress gaming, garnb- ling houses, and otber disorderly houses, had all Kinds of vice and immorality ; to provide for the wens of all kinds of live stock rourbtto the trict for sale; to cause lapidnted, upeafe. or dangerous buildings ied Gown;to cause the owners of fronting on foot pavements and Sor ein 2 Ways to take them up and relay ad Keep tbe { bod _ Articles seized of police, whenever the band and or cb measures as they deem best for enforcing sttendance of children upon the schools. inquiries to ascertain whether any children within the prescribed ages are not altending the schools; to see that the forfeitures incurred by parents and guardi- ans for negleeting to send any child or ward to sebool are enforced; to appoint a clerk of the rescribe his duties; pro- videhim with an office, necessary books and stationery, fuel and lights, and furniture; aed msation; to keep a com- si WASHINGTON, D. C.. FRIDAY. MAY 11, 1866. houses, for manufactur: ig te wers and drains, for and for other public p: to grant licenses for using the water b; lo cause the solicitor to 'y person as fora misdemeanor, and to sue damages, who wilfully wastes.or fouls of the works for its supply; to supply any house or tenement with ‘pense of the owner or occupant, T six days’ notice, to procure it to be supplied himself. To direct the.solicitor rosecute as for a nuisance, by indictment, Y Civilsuit,or by both, the owner of any crllar, lodging house, or other house intended lor the censtant occupation of not less than tem Pprrsons, or for the occasional larger Dumbers, unless it te ventilated, as fol- ‘ows: By ventiducts for admitting fresh ‘ity of not less than one hundred for every twenty-five persons, @ proportion for any greater or by some other mode capable of ure sir to each person of tour cubic feet a minute; by discharging ventiducts, opening direc: or into the open air above by asuitable cowl or cap, and having a ca- pacity of notdess than two-thirds of the ad- Mmitting§ventiduct: or by an opel Arnott valve, an opening into some other ven- tilated apartment, or by some ether fin ; or for purposes of prostitul ly house, or house of | Assignation; or for lewd emusemente, or entertaimments, or ¢: and to cause every vigorously proeecuted; to FO seized to be destroyed. | bouse, or premuses to be closed. ‘vee sgain for such or any other ui Se Re | 2. 4,113. i z rposes, for flush- uns, 01 au Pipes, drains, or water-closets: rand ane. cases of prevalent sickness, es] there is a great LA gah bap or unusual des- titution; to notify the owner or occa any bouse or tenement forth with to abate apy nuisance or other source of disease that may remises; to cause the F own agents, and at in repair,or <@u-e t @same to be done at the osaee Of such Owners; to protect churches or other places of worship from molestation or disturbance while congregations are engaged in any religious exercises or proceedings in the same ; to cause all violators of the laws of the District, and all disturbers of the public peace, to be prosecuted and nalties adjudg: itis the duty of every police rform every duty rd,by the superintendent of police,or by the sergeants; to wear the emblem of off quired by the board; to execute every warrant of arrest or search delivered to bim by any Magistrate of the District; to rest by bim made, within six hours after monking it, to the sergeant of police om duty in he precinct in which it is made; to deliver all stolen property taken by him to the person spa ft the place designated for receiving it; to obey the board of bealth, when called upon by them for special service. n 32 prescribes the duties of sergeants to make necessary be discovered in bis tame to be abated by t! the expense of such owner or occupant; if be refuse or neglect for twenty-four hours to do so;to pursue these measures so continu ously 8s to prevent, as far as possible, any 2¢- | cumulation of the causes of disease; to procure eer oF surveyor & the District, exhibiting its natural drainage tem of sewerage upon & d by the board; to assume the management and entire control of all sewers, drains, or waste pipes now existing or hereafter to be constructed: to cause e part of the District to be effectually drai upon one general and systematic pair, arch over, enlarge, lessen, or 3 repair or alter any now existing sewer or drain; te construct any hew sewer or drain, and re- pair or a}ter the same; to discontinue, close up, or destroy any sewer or drain; to carry any sewer. or drain or pipe, for the distribution of ge, through, acrees, or under any rail- road, turnpike road, or other highway, or any bridge, or street, or place Inid out or intended treet, or under any cellar or vault which may be uncer the pavemeut, or carriage way of any street, or intended street, upon condi- tion of making good ali damages done by them: or, if deemed necessary by the engineer, into, or under, or through any lands whatever, upon making due compensation for the same: to construct, either above or under ground, such reservoirs and other works as may be necessary tor holding the sewage flowing from the sewers of the Listrict, or to provide out- ialls for the same: to cause the sewers to empty into such reservoirs or outfails by means of connecting sewers, or such other sufficient de- vices; to contract for the sale of sewage or for ibe distribution of it over lande, giving to the contractors power to make sub-contracts, sub- ject to the conditions to which they themselves @re subject; to contract for, purchase, or take on lease any buildings, engines, materials, or apparatus jor recciving, storing, disinfecting and distributing any such sewage, and to lease or fseign such buildings, engines, materiale, or apparatus: to purchase or take on lease, or cause to be condemned, any Jands or matenals necessary for the execution of the above pow- ere; to permit, upon such terms as may be thought reasonable and just, the owner or oc- cupier of premises, adjoining or near their sewers or drains, to communicate with them by bis private sewer or drain; to notify and require the owner of any house, built without any or witb insufficient waste-pipe, drain, or water-closet, to make, Within areasonable tinge specified inthe notice, a sufficient drain of a construction approved by the board; to require the draing of every new heuse or building to be covered in, and to be of such size and ma- terials, at such levels, and with such full, as may be eflectnal, im the opinion of the engi- beer or surveyor, to secure perfect drainage of such house or building and its appurten: to require the drains of such new house to communicate with the nearest public sewer, if there be one within 100 feet, or, if not, then to empty into a covered cesspool or other place not being under any house. and being so far from other houses as the board shall direct: te compel snd direct the construction of “dry privies,” yaults, or cesspools, wherever the nature of the ground, the building materials employed, the imperfect supply of water, or oiber cause, shall render this necessary for the preservation of the public health or the purity of streams, springs, or other sources of fresh water, to Cause privies or vaults of this class to be so voustructed as that their contents can be conveniently and safely removed peri- or other pur- to require said contents to be suf- some proper and or deodorizing agent, se them harmless while undis- during removal; house or build- unished; to cause ‘eT, OF injures an: ed againet delin- collected and paid in the trea- sury; fo appoint yearly, on the first Monday of May, one person from each sehool district commissioner of primary schools; to exercise a general supervision over the pro- ceedings of said commissioners, examine their books and papers, and prosecute for any de- linquencies or violations of their duty; require from the clerk. collector, and treasurer, reports and the rendition of accounts whenever they shall deem it expedient; to select amd pur- chase, m the country, a site foran asylam for the poor, and to ceuse suitable buildings to be erect¢d upon it, upon appropriation therefor by Congress, said site to consist of a parcel of land ind the buildings thereon te be of such dimensions and construction as may be ; to select said site and Board of Education; if he omit, atte: fix ard pay bis co plete record of all touching the schools; to make to nual report of the condition of tae schools, showing the number, ages, anc sex of the Pupils in attendance during the year: the number and sex of the teachers: the compen- each teacher; and all other matters deemed by them important. SUPERINTENDENT OF WEIGHTS AND WEASTRES It shall be the duty of the superintendent of weights and measures to take charge. and use precaution for the perfect preservation of the standards, taking care metal be not teucbed with the bands, or other- ‘wise soled, abraded, or injured; use standard to adjust and verify all weights and Measutfes brought to hi brand or mark with the letters D.C. and the current year, such weights, measures, bal- paratus for weighing and measuring, as, upon trial or adjustment, shall to prove, by said standards, went balances, steelyards, platform scales, her balances having poises, be used inthe District by dealers in articles sold by weight and measure; to deliver to his successor, OF to ihe commissioners, on vacating his office, all the standards, tools, and appara- tus of his office. . No sales of goode, wares, or merchandise, weight or measure, shall be made, unless Weight or measure of the same be first ascer- tained by apparatus conformably with said trom the engin and the present s ery member of the police force has power to do duty in any partor the District without Tegard to residence or corporation limes; toex- erciee all the common law and statutory pow- bles, except for the service of civil : Warrant of search or Arrest issued by any magistrate of the District according to its terms, to take ali stolen prop- arties arrested for larceny, bur- bery, to arrest and take into cus- tody without warrant in the following cases — Every offender committing, or threatening to commit, or attempting to commit an offence directly probtbite any law or ordmance in force in t! any cone whom he sees making affray, or as- eaulting another, or breaking the peace, or whom he heare or knows to menace or threat- en to kill, maim. or beat another: ‘reon also upon complaint, any person as committed a felony; any pereon sus- pected, upon probable grounds, of being the sation allowed ad in the sam: lese number; or of such size, to gre nde cy needtw | for the p Toof, terminated plan and construct said buildin view to promote and secure comfort of the inmates; to act as commissioners and guardians of the poor: to intendent of the asylum, and 1 the vacancy at pleas: stipulation with surety for the of his duties, and administer to him the oath of oftice; to deliver said stipulation to the seere- tary of the District for safe custody, first having entered it at Jarge on their minutes; to pre- scribe rules and regulations for the manage- ment of the farm, and for the treatment of the the mmates of the asylum, and modify and change the same at pleasure: to prescribe the manner in which said inmates shall live, sleep, be clothed, and labor, if any of them are able te labor, and generally to conduct the institution, rovide for the poor admitted into it kindly numanely, to the best of their judgmen' to pay the superintendent his compensation, by an order upon their minutes, directing the comptroller to draw his warrant for the same; to place any poor person admitted into the afylum, if be consent, in charge of his kindred, and in such case te pay the relative keeping him. if required, the expense of his support, not exceeding what it would cost ‘n the asy- Inm: *o appoint all officers deemed by them necessary to the performance of said duties, and prescribe their functions: to report to Con- annually, on or before the second Vednesday in December, the condition and state of the District, and accompany the same ‘with the reports of the subordinate officers of e health and im for the purpose; to by act of Co: ances, or other ap to take from Sim or unless the drains, vaults, and water-closets ped and effectually ventilated; em with the rain-water spouts; of if within the house, as in the ease of water- flue opening above the a heated flue. To issue directions and regulations in order that meas- ures of precaution may be taken with prompti- tude, according to the urgency of the case. when any epidemic, endemic, or contagiou disease threatens the District or any part of it: toprevent the spread of such malignant dis- eases, oF mitigate the same by such measures as they deem expedient, other than vigorously cleansing the streets and public highways; cleansing, purifying, ventilating, and disin- fecuung houses; removing nuisances; providing for the sick by establishing and opening tem- porary hospitals, and for the s of the dead: to order to quarantine any vessel . baving on board any contagious or malignant disease, or that has come from any port or place where any such disease is prevailing; to provide suitable apartments for sufficient méed- ical officers or employees to vaccinate without charge all persons who shall apply: to direct said officers to give to every child of the age to attend the public schools, or under that age, a cer ificate of vaccination, to be produced before admission to the public schools; to direct and require eaid officers to keep on hand, if practi- cable, a sufficient quantity of vaccine lymph to and public institutions; the public works under their contro! who has not been well and snffi- cyently protected against small-pox, either by vaccination or otherwise. To provide places of burial, either within or without the District, for all persons dying therein; to enlarge the same when they deem it expedient, by the pur- cbse of lands for the purpose; to make roads to the same, or improve those already existing; to build therein suitable chapels, and such other buildings and works as they tnink Pp to discontinue burials in any ticnlar burial grounds, making exceptions in special cases. if it can be done without prejudice to the public health; to grant rights of sepulture to persons deprived thereof by discontinuing buriajs in particular places, or otherwise to make them com) grant leave for the removal of burial greund under their control, when it can be done without injury tothe public health. To keep constantly fixed upon some conspi rtofevery burial-ground under the! lations—as'to the forma- laces of interment; as tothe nature of the coffins to be received in said is to the conduct of funeral sions; as to the time and mode of removing be- dies; and, generally, as to all matters connected. with the good order of such grounds, and the — of a naan si interment. in to for the purpose, es . Beers proteeston A occu. pation, residence at the time ofdeath, and cause of the death of each person whose bod: terred in said grounds; to granta perm! burial after eaid register has been completed; to provide convenient bouses for the reception and care of the bodies of the dead until inter- ment; make arrangement and the care of the bodies: to superintent the same; to permit no “wake”? witboot leave in writing; to grant no such leave if the death was occasiontd by any malignant or epidemie diseaze; or, if, trom any cause, the health of those who would be present, or of others with whom they would be in contact, would bs thereby endangered: to fix a scale of charges for the conduct of fanerals, yar. according to circumstances; but so that the eral may be conducted with decency and sol- emnity, }owever smafl the charge may be, or if no charge whatever is made. 1t is a suisance, among other things—to fill or load tle air with unhealthy exhalations and odors sonear dwellings as to endanger the health ofthe occapants; to establish magazines or repostories of gunpowder, or other explo- sive substance, or to manufacture the same, se near to cwellings as te render their occy unsafe, @ occasion reasonable dread of to obstrict, withont slawfal natural Sow of the water of rivers or s! or alongdrains, gutters, or sewers; to corrupt, or rende' impure or unwholesome, the water of any river, stream, well, fountain, sp: pond; to»bstruct any ‘way, av@ue, street, imtermert, common, public n; to tirow into or leav strest, square, or vacant lot, or into any pond or body of rater, any dead animal, dirt, sawdust, seot, asirs, cinders, shavings, hair, manure, oyster, dam, or lobster shells, rubbish,or filth of any kind, or any refuse whatsoe-er, animal or v or leave n or upon any w! or tide-water, any dead anima! or other fou! or offensivematter; to keep a disorderly house, te ‘wit—for prostitution or lewaness: for gambling: for driniing intoxicating liquors, to whic! quarrellag, fighting, and breaches ofthe peace are incient, whereby scandalied or annoyed; to conce! tence in By house, tenement, or dwelling of. any contgious disease; to let any house er tenemen to &@ greater number of tenants than inion of the board of health, eom. the continued health of the oecn- pants; coas to tend to generate disease among the same abroad; to wash or feed horses or cows, er wash then in the streets; to suffer any animal of the hose kind that is blind, or that has the giandere,or other contagious or infectious disease, tran at large; to open and leave open, ing it securely, any ditch, treneh, gutter, g lly, or vther excavation, in any ave- atret, he ecb whether for a drain, cellar, pose. removal of nuisances and orities therein, and to p Juries tc individuals, it is the duty of e pastof any dwelling or other cco be found correct: be securely tra) by connecting t to arrest any closets, by a ventilatin, Teot, or connected wi ted: indecent night-walkers and lewd persons frequenting bawdy-houses: any one insultin: assnulting, or making affray on him, thong’ only verbally, while in execution of bis office to act, in case be has a warrant, only as the Warrant directs: to execute rent issned, in criminal cases, by any justice of the peace: to keep watch to prevert all breaches of the crimimai law: to breakopen the doors of dwelling-bouses im the ‘To keep the peace; to prevent the com. any felony, to take any person who has committed a felony; in case of forcible en - try and detainer, found by inquisition or view ola magistrate;on escape fem alawful ar- rest; on warrant of search fer stolen goods; to see and suppress disorder, in case of disord- erly drinking or noise at an unreasonable hour of the night, especially in inns, taverns, ale- bonuses, and fo forth: to examine property Possession of any pawnbroker, or in of any other person, whenever thereto aathor- izea in writing by the superintendent. and having in bis possession a pawnbroker’s re ce‘pt or ticket specifying the property; to take faid property from the possessor, but not with. out due procets or authority of law Section 34 prescribes the duties of the Prop- 1 lawful war- If any purchaser be defrauded by 9 viola- tion of the provision of the preceding section, he may sustain an action against the seller for three mes the price of the article sold. Every dealer who sells >y weight or meas- ure shall have his weights and measures ver:- fied by and made conformable with said stand- ards once every year. DUTIES OF ‘THE BOARD OF POLICE. The duties and powers of the board of police are :—To preserve the public peace; to prevent offenders; to protect the Tights of persons and property; to guard the to preserve order at every pub- to remove nuisances existing in eets. alleys, bigh ways, and other olice force at every remen and of prop- crime and arrest public health: laces; to detail a proper ire for the protection of erty; to protect strangers and travelers at steamboat and ship landings and railway sta- tions; to see promptly enforced all laws for the observance of Sunday, and regarding elec- tions, pawnbrokers, mock auctions, gambling, intem) ince, lottery dealers, vagrants, dis- orderly persons, and the public health: to make rules and regulations, from time to time, tor the government and discipline of its sub- ordinate officers: 10 execute its duties, so tar as they are merely ministerial, by means of the po- liceforce; toappoint asuperintendent of police, ten sergeants of police, police patrolmen not ex- ceeding 150, any additional number of patrol. men to do duty at any place within the Dis- trict, upon the application and at the c and expense of any person, as many spe: patrolmen. without pay, from among the citi- zens, as it may deem advisable, and for a specified time, upon any emergency of riot, pestilence, invasion, insurrection, or during any day of public election, ceremony, or cel- ebration; to require and make suitable pro- vision respecting security to be entered i the superintendent of police, and by the ser- geants of police, and for taki bers of the police, of an oath registry of the same: to designate a place, and & person, who shall be called the property clerk of the Metropolitan police district, for keeping all stolen pr Toperty, taken ree; to appoint not ex, PPoint no one to office, or to hold olice force who cannot read and not a citizen of the izen of the United States, or who shall ever have been indicted and convicted of crime; rson to any office in the allever have been removed m_the police force for cause; to remove no one from office in the standing police force, except upon written ¢! bim to the board, nor till afte: sball bave been afforded him his defence. Tedefine and prescribe particu- larly, by roles and regulations, the qualifica- tons tor office, mode of trial, and removal of each officer of the regular police patrolman at any Section 10 prescribes the duties of the Private Secretary of the President for the District. ICITOR, ASSESSOR, CO! R, AND COMPTROLLER. of the solicitor of the District of Columbia to act as legal adviser of the commissioners in regard to any matter or thing connected with their duties; to bring and prosecute all suits in which the District is a party or interested; to take care that all sums for which judgments are obtained in the District be speedily collected, if possible, and paid into the treasury; to give the collector, assessor, treasurer, and troller legal advice required in the discharge of their official duties; to answer any question which may be propounded to him by the com- missioners touching the duties of any officer of the District acting under them; to deliver the papers and books of his office to his suc- DUTIES OF THE 8¢ TOR, TREASURER It shall be the duty supply the physici to employ no person i STREETS AND HIGHWAYS, It eball be the duty of the superintendent of the streets and highways to act in all things under the direction and with the consent of the commissioners; te contract for all work and improvements direcied to be done or made by the commissioners: to give ten days’ notice in & newspaper of the District of the letting of work; to assign the work to the lowest com- petent bidder: to draw up the contract wi the accepted bidder, and to the commissioners: to specify m the notice of letting, when the commissioners 0 direct, bat the work will be let to the lowest compe- tent bidder, by daye-work, instead of by the job or yard; to advertise a letting anew, when ider accepted fails to enter into the con- tract, or fails to execute the work; to superin- tend the grading and graveling, or paving of all avenues, streets, alleys, sidewalks, flagged the setting of curbs; ing up and relaying of pavements and curbs when dilapidated or erroneous in grade: the sinking and walling of reservoirs or wells; the laying of pipes and ad and bydranis; the construction bridges, culverts, and sewers: the fillin; lots that are below the graduation of the ad. joining streets, when required by the board of bealth; the removal of nuisances, under the direction of the board of health; the removai ot obstructions or impediments in the streets; and the enforcement generally of the police regulations relating to streets ard high’ to execute all orders of the board of health: pose of ai] the manure and street sweepings ected fn cleansing the streets, under bis superintendence, as the commissioners shall order or direct; to perform al! other lawful duties of bis office; to report his the commissioners at the times and in manner as they shall direct; to eu; the construction, repairs, and clean: bighways in the District out of the limits of the The duties of a supervisor are—To oversee the periormance of labor upon the streets and who roads assigned to his supervision; Tsoh under his charge is directions, or to labor jomit it forapprov It shall be the duty of the assesscr of taxes to make his assessments and return the same in the manner prescribed in the revenue law. And he shall have power te appoint as many assistants, as he may require, for whose con- duct be eball be reg) It shall be the collector's duty to notify the tax payers, by advertisement in the newspaper selected by the commissioners, of the times and places when and where he will meet them to receive their taxes: to appear at the times and places so designated, and receive and re- ipt for the taxes paid him; to distrain and the distress, after five days’ notice of the time and place of sale in the newspaper afore- exid, m apy case of failure b; pay atthe time and and after one personal dence or place of busines: Proceeds of the sale the the costs of the advertisement, and a fee of one dollar for nimseli; to pay the balance, if any. imto the treasury, subject to the order of the tax payer to whom the distress belonged; to ‘ver he collects into the treasury, and take the treasurer's receipt for the same in du- plicate;to file one duplicate with the comp- control, printed regu 1 tion of graves and s, and gutte: ciently deodorized by sufficient dryin; as to render turbed and to apply the same rule to an ing which, for the purpose of repairs, shall be allied down to the ground foo: jouse oF building; to do the wor! the owner or occepant, if he fail to comply with their notice, and collect from him the cost of the same; to construct works, if practi- cable, whereby the waters of the Tiber and Reedy branch may be made to flush the main sewers of the District, and effectually clean To cause all the streets and roads of the District, and all foot continually and effectually cleamed, and,when necessary, watered; to cause all dust and rub- bish to be carried away from the premises of the inbabitants, at the expense of those who permit accumulations of them; to cause all Pprivies and cevspools, from time to time, to be emptied and cleaned, first causing or requir- ing their contents to be deodorized; to remove from any tenement house or other dwelling which, by reason of overcrowding, has become &@ nuisance, or the cause of sickness, or the source of filth, so many of the occupants as may be requisite toenable those who remain to keep the same clean and innocuous: to charge the expense of such removal to the owner of the tenement house or dwelling; to notify the remaining occupants, or the owner, or his agent, to cleanse the same, so as to be no longer & nuisance; or cause it to be cleaned at the expense of said owner or occupant; to clese up or demolish such house or dwelling if it be found impracticable otherwise to free it from ite deleterious condition. To prescribe rules for the mana; mt of sti f rty, or lost or aban- se poe . or convenient ex: oes gt ha T the tax payer to xed for the same, application at his resi- to retain out of the mennt of the taxes, fo reappoint no ice force who for such reception avements te be and appoint officers pre: it T an Oo} tunit of being heard im The duties of the treasurer are ts open and keep an account against the collector and every other person liable to pay money into the treas- ury, charging him therein with all mog which such person is bound to pay into treasury; to credit him with what he pays into the treasury, and with wnat he produces the commissioners’ discharge from paying: to give him duplicate receipts for such payments; to deliver ove of said receipts to the comptroller: to report to the solicitor every failure of the collector, or other person bound to pay mone: into the treasury, to make payment of suc moneys; to pay no money out of the treasury buton the comptrolier'’s warrant; to take u) ben he pays it, and take dupli- the holder thereof, specify- ing in the receipts the number and date of the warrant to which the payment is made, and the name of the persons to whom it is made; te file and preserve said warrants and one of eaid duplicates in his office; to deliver one ef d duplicates to the comptroller; to render annual statementof bis accounts to the jioners at the end of the fiscal year, and te render accounts and make reports whenever required by the commissioners; to entry on his books, or of les. to any person demand- ing and paying for it; to permit his books to be inspected by any tax payer atall times, except when bis engagments prevents it, and then to assign atime when the examination will be permitted. Jbe comptroller’ to remove a local time, without assigning any cause therefor, upon one month’s notice of the intention to do person who applied for the ap- pointment; to present to each local and special patrolman an emblem to be worn by him du- Ting bit service; to enumerate and distribute the duties of each of said officers; to divide the Dystrict into aoe gy Bot exceeding ten; to tof police to each precinct; time to time, a station, or sub-etation in each precinct, for the accommo- dation of the police force on duty, and as places of temporary detention Tested, and of property taken wit cinct; to select from time to time the peace to sit at each station-house, to hear charges against persons arrested and carried there; to provide suitable accommodations in premises other thau those employed for the confinement of offenders, for witnesses in criminal cases, detained because u) security for their appearance: change, as they may deem from time to time advisable. without regard to limitation of resi- ‘Tgeant or patrolman toany part of the District, or any police er criminal ablic office of the goy- ited States or of the = treit; to promulgate all regulations and or- perintendent of police; are toorder military £0 given to the to dismiss every fails to conform to diligently on & country road: to noti! collector of such dismission; to turn! collector with s list containing the name of ‘Tson who has given bim a notice of bis desire to pay any part of his taxes in work; to have three-fourths at least of the work on roads, under his su; 8s early as the middle Ty country road under his when it is made or twelve inches higher tides, and gradually rounded off to the to cause the gutters to be *nough to carry off ali _ cause necessary repairs every road or bridge bas been sudden: assign one sergean’ such warran July; to B swing cate receipts of persons ar- thin the pre- to the middie than at the ughter-houses, and ‘holesome state; to enter, at reasonable times, and inspect any il, or place kept or used for ers’ Meat, poultry. or fish, or as a slaughter-house, and examine any animal, ultry, game, flesh, or fish, erein intended for the food of man; and, if the same appear to be unfit for lood, to seize it and cause it to be destroyed, or otherwise disposed of, so as to prevent its in fer sale; to seize any fresh fish brought into the market before they have been cleansed of their entrails and refuse parts; and any fish offered for sale unless kept om the rays of the sun in cover- ed and clean stalls, boxes. houses. or carts; to seize any vegetables whatever, except green , and green corn in usks, which have not, when offered for sale, been divested of such are not commonly use shop, buildin; toany placeof the sale of bi or upon any nable to give to detail and so injured as which may be iy = to require mediate give acopy of an waste water, any paper on Lis le; to throw inte court, and to an dock, slip, flats, ernment of the ders through the su The police authorities sistance in aid of the civil authorities—to quelli riots; suppress insurrections; preserve the public tranquil: penas, attested in the name of the president of the board, to compe! the attendance of witness- es upon any proceeding authorized by its rules and regulations; to exercise general police su- Tvision and inspection over every jackman or cartman; every broker; every licensed dealer second-hand merchandise; every intelligence office: every auctioneer of watch- es and jewelry; every suspected private bank- every doubtfal establishment in the District; and toempower members of the Police force to fulfil such special duties in the aforesaid as it may ordain; and to se- ect and set apart from ‘well secured amount requisite to bridges in os ineer’s a “ ely to the duties are—To audit all accounts and demands against the treasury; to allow no account or demand, except suc’ are lawfully chargeable to, and are due from the treasury; to issue his warrant for the ment of every account or demand whic! allows; to fileevery such account or demand in his office, and number it with the number of the warrant issued for its payment; to num- ber bis warrants consecutively, from number one onward, and date each day of its issuance; to keep a registry of war- rants, in which shall be entered the number of every warrunt issued. the date of it, the per- son to whom, and the consideration for wi itis payable, and the amount of it; wo issue no warrant to pay for work done hy any person the commissioners, or by any of- istrict, unless the part: protect property; ity; to isene sub- ‘rts or appendages for food; to seize any jamaged grain, vegetables, or fruit, which has been landed at any wharf or other place, or brought into the District for sale, or Without & permit from an of- of health, and in sach man- ner as he may direct, to seize adulterated or un wholesome food or drink or milk adultera- ted with water, or deprived of its cream, or mixed with any other substance, solid or liquid, it offered for sale, and destroy the same; to eject from the market any fering for sale, anywhere wil articles of any kind unfit for food, unwhol eo eOVeP TR aE SH A SA BS and the sale of provisions, as they ; to abate al’ unlicensed di alls, or places used for drinks; to deliver to apply for a license to lodging bouse a card on which the number of lodgers, wh into the same; “4 licensed pawn- in or vendor of them with the ing house; an: in the District, in trict, the police a lice Company,” te comsigt of not persons; t@ assign to said com- pany such special duties, by rules and regula- Uons, As May be advantageous to the public: to appoint not exceeding three su: lice; 10 designate the duties to be perfor said surgeons; t© enter upon its minutes the substance of any report made to tary police company, setting mManutactory, tenement house, or edifice, complained visited and inspected by them, 1s maintained, or that any act is about to be committed therein in 8 manner prejudicial to the lives or health le: to cRuse complaint, on oath, to founded upon such report and the before @ police mag- or place complained belongs, that it has been don and in accordance with the claimaat' certificate and number To furnish the and treasurer with the e du’ i commussioners. a Pagice It shall be duty of the engineer or sur: to retain in his office a m: Columbia, and delineate ind subdivisions of th: Washington and Geor; preserve in his office a ings, levels, and su: of the District; m to the inspect Dited States at such new levels, of streets and bi belonging to the Unit trivt, as may be required of him b missioners: to periorm all other dui taining to bis office that may be direc! the commissioners or by Congress. DUTIES OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. wersand duties ef the board of Healh by reports or otherwise, anitary matters; na appoint such persofis as ma: ‘y into effect the sanitary laws and of the District, and delegate te ‘cessary powers: to enter the dwell- of any citiven, or cause the their ageats or em: contract; to retain such and file it with the asteseor, collector, necessary forms for iTgeous of pe- the eale of intoxicati any person intending to may be received promoting clean|ines: and the conditions an: inepection may be made, Tpose of introducin; ‘ting process. lerground roum intended to asa dwelling, directions for ind ventilation therein; restrictions under which and access had there- of the District of ereon the bound. ie same, and also of jetown; to collect and I maps, plans, draw- irveys made for the use keep all these objects jon of the citizens of the all seasonadle hours; to make surveys, grades, allignments % lots, and vacant lots ed States, or to the Dis- gutter infront of his prem! the snowfrom the payementin the front of his ix hours after it has fallen, if it time, and within two hours after surrise if it fall in the night; to fence in every dith, trench, gutter, gully, or other ex- cavation nade in any avenue, whether pr drains, cellars, or 10 cover éver or enclose safely and secu: after sunet light with alampor jan *xXcavatim made fence off he pi honse within st there any dieinfec'! fallin the day every cellar or und be letor occupied, and to granta circumstances stated in it istrate against the persen of;tocause the member of pany to whom it shall be the duty istrate to issue and direct hi separate! license for such the following conditiens, and if the same is i; seven feet in height from fi street, or alley, & Hf 18 Warrant, to arrest the party complained of before such that the complaint may be daly vestigated, according to the law for examining into misdemeanors; to the magistrate to absent, and until he arrives; to ders of the chief engineer whenever he It is the duty of every paid member of immediate): promptly to obey the orders resent: and, in the absence t exertions to extinguish and property, and main- § 8 OOF to ceiling; if the its height above the tern, for a lawful purpose: avement on the right and of any vault or opening for a cel- the process of con- same effectually night while it re- gi} surface of the street or ground; if it has an open feet wide, along six inches lower and efiectually rise of effiuvia from is appurtenant to occupants, a law: or privy, and ap ach p department to of age fire, of the chief of of orders to use bis the fire, preserve life The duties of the si elegray and and instra- Sie Pee as meatas'bs and szepair, and adequate to area, its entire front, and at least floor; if it is well And secure against the any sewer or drain; if there or that may be used by its constructed water closet it furnished with ; if it has an external struction, an during ths whole of every mains umovered or open. DUTIis OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. he dwies and ball be to establish school di to sppont school district ft pre: scribe thtirduties: to select and purchase, or cause tobe condemned in the manner private property for ite Long ened or aan sehools istrict; to cause all necessary ‘o be built, and maintained in to supply the same witn. suspended till the cause of complaint “is re information on Moved to the satisfact‘en ef the board. ter-heuses, tenement houses ted or charged to be unsafe; relating to health as ad and Lupe upon ses com- Pplaint book, and receive and execute the dere of the board of health in regard to legal measures for ife or health - being opened in a surveyor, unobstructed it; to report to the solici derground room used as not so licensed, t! ing OF premises saune to be dong im a resonable time seribed fer taking use, & Btitable si houses inenen di: school-heuses t same, to ake afly.and particularly upon or in said an! ‘o make once a year or imeach ot said schools: itary survey of the Dis- por aber con. ‘ulation of filth; squares, reser- stair. bonuses, rooms. cellars, yarde, and vacant lots, reporting in detail writil cumulations of filth; al) foul or peta toa oftener, 2 thorough san. trictorany particular erage. drainage, water supply; dition of the inhabitants; accu: the state of streets, avenues, lice telegraph. WATER DEPARTMENT. The powers and duties of closets, privies end cesspeois ean 5 the fitness or dvildings for human habitati or protibition ofsuch as a the supply and use of wate: mestic purposes, at the District; the Preminee to the acts Jaying down water on, aud the closin;