Chapter 694. providing for the appointment of police matrons for the District of Columbia, defining their duties, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 694.— An Act providing for the appointment of police matrons for the District of Columbia, defining their duties, and for other purposes.July 23, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Police matrons to be appointed, District of Columbia. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be. and they are hereby, authorized to appoint three matrons for the police” department of said District, at a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, as soon as the necessary accommodations may be authorized and provided by Congress, and the work completed”.
Sec. 2. That it. shall be the duty of said police matrons to search,Duties. when necessary, examine, and care for the female prisoners who may be taken into custody by the police, and to take charge of lost or abandoned children while detained at a station-house to which a matron may be assigned, under such rules and regulations as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may from time to time make. Sec. 3. That no woman shall be appointed a police matron unlessQualifications. suitable for the position, and recommended therefor in writing by at least ten women of good standing, residents of the District.
Approved, July 23, 1888.