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Public Law 46–94
to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to appoint additional policemen for temporary service in the District, and for other purposes.
Approved March 1, 1881
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to appoint additional policemen for temporary service in the District, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to appoint, upon the recommendation of the superintendent of the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia, three hundred additional privates on the Metropolitan police force of said District for the period of ten days from the passage of this act, who shall be paid two dollars for each day’s service rendered by them in that capacity; and a sum sufficient for their payment and equipment is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not
Provisos.
otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the expense of said police shall be paid one-half out of the revenues of the District and the other half ont of the revenues of the United States: And provided further, That twenty of said force shall be detailed and placed under control of the Architect of the Capitol, Sergeant-at-arms of the House, and Sergeant-at-arms of the Senate.
Approved, March 1, 1881.