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 THIRTY-SEVENTH CON GRESS. Sess. Il. Ch. 181. 1862. 579 unclaimed for twenty days may be advertised and sold upon ten days’ pub-, Y1Vh9¤(i>’°P°>’;°¥ lic notice, and all perishable property to be sold at once. If any prop- geuggv as ew erty or money placed in the custody of the property clerk shall be desired as evidence in any police or other criminal court, such property shall be delivered to any officer who shall present an order to that eifect from such court; such property, however, shall not be retained in said court, but shall be returned to said property clerk, to be disposed of according to the previous provisions of this act. And the annual compensation of said property payogpropmv clerk, as also the clerk (who shall hereafter be known as secretary of the ¢=l¤¤‘l< wd of Sreboard of police) shall be twelve hundred dollars each, payable monthly. Q-tupg b°“rd Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the ggnitary police Board of Metropolitan Police to set apart a sanitary police company, to °°¤¤P¤¤Y· consist of not exceeding ten persons, who shall be selected from among the police, and to assign to said company such especial duties, by the rules and regulations, as may be publicly advantageous; and also to ap- Surgeons of point not exceeding three surgeons of police, who shall receive an annual P°ll°°- compensation of three hundred dollars each, and discharge such duties as may be required of them by the board of police. The Metropolitan Power of sanisanitary company is hereby empowered, under such distribution of power m-Y °°“‘P”“Y· and duty as may be made by the rules and regulations, to visit and make inspection of all ferry-boats, manufactories, slaughter-houses, tenementhouses, and editices suspected of} or charged with, being unsafe, and to attend to such other matters relating to health as are complained of and entered upon the complaint-book kept by order of the board, and to take all necessary legal measures for promoting the security of life or health generally, and upon or in said boats, manufactories, houses, and edilices, and to make report of inspection and action in the premises to the Board of Metropolitan Police. Whenever said board shall be satisfied, by such proceedings report, that any ferry-boat, manufactory, slaughter·house, tenement-house, Whm therils or edifice is maintained, or that any other act is being about to be committed, gggéirgfsgfgty in a manner prejudicial to the lives or health of the public, it shall, after of tho public. due entry upon its minutes of the circumstances, cause complaint to be made, founded upon such report and circumstances, before any magistrate of the Metropolitan police district, who shall, in a summary way, upon such complaint made under oath, issue his proper warrant, reciting therein the name of the member or members of the Metropolitan sanitary police company, for the arrest of the person in charge of said ferry-boat, manufactory, slaughter-house, tenement-house, and edifice, or otherwise committing any act that may be derogatory to the public health, to the end that he may be brought before such magistrate, and the complaint of insecurity of the life or health of the public so made be duly investigated according to the law of examination into misdemeanors. If said magistrate shall be satisfied, on a summary hearing thereof, that such charge of insecurity of the lives or health of the public is founded on reasonable and probable cause, he may, by his order in writing, command any such ferry-boat to cease running, or any business in such manufactory or slaughter-house to cease, or impose such fine as by law may be attached to such offence upon the person so offending, until the cause of complaint aforesaid shall be removed to the satisfaction of the Board of Metropolitan Police. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any member of the Metro- S,,,,,.,,;,_§,,,_, of polilan police force, or if any two or more house-_holders shall report in Eggs; :11;:66 writing, under his or their signature, to the superintendent of the Metro- commcnpgaming politan police force that there are good grounds (and stating the same) houses, houses ot' ihr believing any house, room, or premises within the said Metropolitan P”°S“*"*'°”·&°- police district to be kept or used as a common gaming house, common gaming room, or common gaming premises, for therein playing for wagers of money at any game of chance, or to be kept or used as a bawdy house, or for lewd and obscene public amusement or entertaimncnt, or as a house