Citizenship and resi dence of police. the county in which said city is situated; captains, not exceed ing twelve hundred dollars ($1200); lieutenants, not exceed ing one thousand dollars ($1000), and patrolmen, not exceeding nine hundred dollars ($900) per annum. Each member and officer of the police force shall be a citizen of the United States, and a resident citizen for three years of the city in which he shall be appointed, and able to read and write the English language. Appointments on the police force shall be for during good behavior, and physical and mental ability to discharge the duties attached to such appointment; and no member of said police force, unless physically or mentally disabled, except the superintendent, shall be removed until writtenRemoval for charges shall be preferred against him for neglect of duty, misconduct, or for the violation of any of the laws of the state or ordinauces of said city. All such charges must be in writing, and notice served on the person charged, who may defend by himself or counsel, in accordance with the written or printed rules and regulations adopted for the government of said police force. The mayor shall have power to examine, or try and determine, all charges against members of said police force. If the member charged is found guilty as charged, the may or may fine, suspend or dismiss him. cause. Superintendent of police. Clerk of police. Bond of su and oath of members of police force. SEC. 5. The superintendent of such police force shall be removed at pleasure of said mayor. The mayor shall have power to detail members of the regular force to act as secret detectives, and through the superintendent have control of the same. SEC. 6. The mayor shall appoint a clerk, to be styled "Clerk of the Police Department," at a salary not to exceed twelve hundred dollars per annum, as authorized by the common council, whose duty it shall be to act as secretary for the police department, and to file and preserve all papers and documents relating to said police force, and keep the books of said office. Said secretary shall give a penal bond in the sum of five thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of his duties; said bond to be approved by the mayor, together with the city solicitor, and filed in the city clerk's office. SEC. 7. The said superintendent of police shall give a perintendent bond for the faithful discharge of his duties in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, with sureties to the satisfaction of the mayor and city solicitor, to be approved by the mayor and city solicitor, which shall be filed in the city clerk's office, and thereafter, under the direction and control of the mayor, he shall have command and control of the police force of such city. Each officer and member of the police force, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take an oath before the mayor, who is hereby authorized to administer the same, to well and faithfully discharge the duties of his office; each captain and lieutenant of such police force shall give a penal bond for the faithful discharge of his duties, in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5000), with sureties to the satisfaction of the mayor and city solicitor, which shall be filed in the city clerk's office; and each patrolman shall also give a penal bond in the sum of one thousand dollars ($1000), with sure ties to the satisfaction of the mayor and city solicitor, which shall be filed in the city clerk's office, for the faithful dis charge of his duties, and for the payment of any damages that may be adjudged against him by any competent tribunal for the illegal arrest or imprisonment, or injury by him of any person for the benefit of such illegally arrested, imprisoned or injured person. No member of the police force shall receive, or share in for his own benefit, under any pretense whatever, any present, fee, gift or emolument for police services, other than the regular salary and pay, except by the consent of the mayor and superintendent publicly given and in writing. No presents, fees, &c., allowable. Uniform of police, &c. SEC. 8. Every member of said police force, while on duty, shall wear a uniform to be prescribed by the mayor, except when on detective duty, and shall at all times, in public, wear an insignia of his office, to be furnished by the mayor. No member of the police force shall be a delegate to, or otherwise take part in any primary or other political convention or election, except to cast his vote. Vacancies occurring in any Vacancies. grade of said police force, except that of the superintendent, shall be filled by the mayor from the next lowest grade. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of police to detail two pa rolmen to attend and preserve order at each election poll in every primary or other election. Detail of patrolmen at elections. Mayor to compel attendance of witnesses, &c. Disposition of stolen property, &c. SEC. 9. The said mayor shall have power to summon and compel the attendance of witnesses before him, whenever deemed necessary, and to administer oaths or affirmations to any person appearing or called before him; and any one swearing falsely in any proceeding before him shall be punishable for the same offense, as in any court of record. SEC. 10. All stolen property, or property found, taken by members of the police force, shall be kept under the control of the police department. Every such article shall be entered in a book kept for the purpose, together with the name of the owner, the name of place where found, when and from whom taken, and name of the officer recovering it, together with the receipt of the person claiming the same. The said police department shall keep a book for the registry of lost, stolen or missing property, for the general convenience of the public, and for the use of the police force of the city; also books of record, wherein shall be entered the name of each member of the police force, the time and place of his nativity, the time and place he became a citizen, if born out of the United States, his age, former occupation, number in family and residence thereof, date of appointment, and if dismissed from the force, the date and cause therefor; and in such book shall be entered all arrests made by such member, and any special service deemed meritorious by the superintendent of police. There shall also be kept and bound all annual police returns, which shall contain all statistical information connected with the police government of the city during the preceding year. SEC. 11. The compensation of members of the police force shall be payable semi-monthly; and it is hereby made the duty of the common council of such city to make the necessary appropriations out of the proper city funds for such bers of police. Payment of compensation of mem Monthly report of police clerk. Requisite fund to be estimated semi-monthly payments. The clerk of the police department SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the said clerk to make a SEC. 13. The fund required for the payment of the clerk, officers and policemen herein named, and for all the other expenses that may be incurred in carrying out the provisions-of and reported. this act, shall be annually estimated by the mayor, and reported to the city council of such city on or before the first Monday in May in each year for revision, and to report to the auditor of the county the percentage to be levied for said purposes in pursuance to law. Salary of member dis abled in discharge of duty. Disposition of gifts, pro ceeds of sales, &c. Substitutes to fill vacancies. Repeal. SEC. 14. Whenever any member of the police force, in actual performance of his duty, shall become bodily disabled in consequence of the performance of such duty, he shall continue to draw his regular salary, at the discretion of the mayor, for a period not to exceed one month. SEC. 15. All rewards, fees and gifts in money, and the proceeds arising from the sale of unclaimed goods and other things, after deducting all expenses incident thereto, shall be paid to the city treasurer, to the credit of the police fund; all goods unclaimed for the period of one year shall be sold at public auction by the auditor of said city. SEC. 16. The mayor may appoint a sufficient number of substitutes to fill the vacancies occasioned by the absence of any member of said force, and such substitutes shall receive compensation only for such time as they may serve, and the amount of said compensation so allowed shall be deducted from the pay of the absent members. SEC. 17. And the act entitled "An act to establish a board of police commissioners in cities of the first class," passed March 29, 1873 (O, L., vol 70, page 86), is hereby repealed. SEC. 18. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. GEO. L. CONVERSE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Passed 18th December, 1874. AN ACT To amend section thirteen of an act defining the jurisdiction and regulating the practice of Probate Courts in the counties of Erie, Lucas, Richland, Holmes, Montgomery, Delaware, Franklin, Scioto and Jefferson, passed April 12th, 1858. (S. & C., 1221.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That said section thirteen of the above recited act be amended so as to read as follows: Section 13. The probate judge shall be paid for his services in criminal cases not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than four hundred dollars, except in the county of Holmes, where he shall receive not more than one hundred dollars per annum out of the county treasury, the amount to be determined by the county commissioners, and paid quarterly; and the probate judge shall tax the fees to which he would be otherwise entitled, and when the same are collected, pay them in o the county treasury. SEC. 2. That section thirteen as enacted April 12, 1858, is hereby repealed. GEO. L. CONVERSE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate pro tem. Fees of probate judge of Holmes county. Passed December 19, 1874. AN ACT Making partial Appropriations for the year 1875. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the AppropriaState of Ohio, That there be and hereby is appropriated out tions. of any money in the treasury to the credit of the general rev enue fund, and not otherwise appropriated, the follow sums, to wit: For the Legislature: Per diem and mileage of the members of the general assembly, and the per diem of their clerks, assistant clerks, ture. sergeant-at arms, assistant sergeant-at-arms, messengers, pages, and other employes, under the laws and resolutions of the senate and house, forty-five thousand dollars. For the Constitutional Convention : vention. Deficiency in the per diem and mileage of the members, Constituand in the per diem of the officers and messengers of the con- tionalcoastitutional convention, to be paid on the order of the presiding officer of the convention, in accordance with the provisions of law providing for the compensation of said members, officers and messengers, existing when the said members, officers, and messengers entered on the discharge of their duties, two thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and sixty-eight cents. Contingent expenses. Reporting debates. Printing. Publishingin newspapers. State librarian. Law librarian. Deficiency in the contingent expenses of the constitutional convention to be allowed and paid by the auditor and treasurer of state, on the presentation of the proper vouchers, certified to be correct by the presiding officer of the convention, twelve dollars and ninety cents. Deficiency for reporting the debates of the constitutional convention, to be paid by the auditor of state on the presentation of the proper vouchers, approved by the supervisor of public printing and the chairman of the committee on accounts and expenses of said convention, and countersigned by the presiding officer of the convention, three thousand eight hundred and six dollars and eighty-eight cents. Deficiency for the printing of the constitutional convention, to be paid as provided in section cne of the act entitled an act making appropriations for the fiscal year 1873, and the first quarter of the fiscal year 1874, passed May 5, 1873, two thousand six hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighty cents, the same to be paid by the auditor of state on the presentation of the proper vouchers, approved by the supervisor of public printing and the chairman of the committee on accounts and expenses of said convention, and countersigned by the presiding officer of said convention. For publishing the proposed new constitution in newspapers, as per section twelve of schedule of said instrument, nine thousand five bur dred and seven dollars and fifty cents. Deficiency in the state librarian contingent fund, one hundred and fifty dollars. Deficiency in contingent fund of law librarian, one hundred dollars; deficiency in the appropriation for books for the Deputy clerk state law library, two hundred dollars. supreme court. State board of agriculture. Distribution of laws, etc. Reprinting For salary of deputy clerk of supreme court for December, 1874, and January, 1875, two hundred dollars. Deficiency in the contingent fund of the state board of agriculture, one hundred and fifty dollars. Deficiency in the appropriation for the distribution of the laws and journals, three hundred dollars; for needed clerical help in secretary of state's office, two hundred and fifty dollars. Reprinting Ohio State Reports, from volume 2 to 18, instate reports. elusive, 4,396 copies, in pursuance of act of April 20, 1874, under contract with Robert Clarke & Co., nine thousand six hundred and ninety dollars. Comptroller's office. Inspector of mines. State senate. For the Comptroller's office: Deficiency in the appropriation for the care of the state house and grounds, five hundred dollars. Deficiency in the appropriation for the wages of employes, one thousand five hundred dollars. Salary of policeman, two hundred and forty dollars. lars. For office of state inspector of mines: Furniture for office, to fix place for maps, and geological specimens, two hundred and fifty dollars. For chair for president of the senate, ninety dollars. |