Public Law 58–1299

That section four of “An

District of Columbia.

Metropolitan police.

Vol. 31, p. 820, amended.

Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia,” approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one, be, and the same is herein, amended so that it shall read as follows:

“ Sec. 1.

That hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia

Police court fines and dog license receipts available for police and firemen’s fund.

are hereby authorized and directed to deposit with the Treasurer of the United States, out of receipts from lines in the police court and receipts from dog Licenses, a sufficient amount to meet any deficiency

Provisos.

Retirement, allowance, etc., of officers.

in the policemen’s fund or firemen’s fund: Provided, That the chief engineer of the fire department and all other officers of said department of and above the rank of captain, the superintendent, assistant superintendent, any captain or lieutenant of police, in case

Pensions to dependent mother, etc.

of retirement as now provided by law, shall receive relief not exceeding one hundred dollars per month: and in case of the death from injury or disease of any member of the police or fire department, if he be unmarried and leave a dependent mother, who is a widow, the same shall be for her relief during the period of widow-hood, or if be leave a widow, or children under sixteen years of age, the same shall be for their relief during the period of widowhood, or

Maximum allowance.

until such children reach the age of sixteen years: Provided, That in no case shall the amount paid to such dependent mother, or widow exceed fifty dollars per month, nor shall the amount paid for a child exceed twenty-five dollars per month.

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