Chapter 35. Amending paragraph six of the Act relating to the Metropolitan police force
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CHAP. 35.— An Act Amending paragraph six of the Act relating to the Metropolitan police force.February 10, 1912.[[H. R. 1618](/us/bill/62/hr/1618).][[Public, No. 80](/us/pl/62/80).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Special policemen at street railway crossings.Pay, etc., established.Vol. 30, p. 489: Vol. 31, p. 820, amended. That paragraph six of the Act approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one, entitled “An Act relating to the Metropolitan police force of the District of Columbia,” amending an Act entitled “An Act to define the rights of purchase of the belt railway, and for other purposes,” approved June twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and relating to the posting of special policemen at street railway crossings and intersections in the city of Washington, be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows:
“And the special police-men aforesaid, from and after the passage of this Act, shall receive as compensation for their services a sum equal to the salary received by regular members of the Metropolitan police force of the District of Columbia (who have served the same length of time), payable in equal monthly installments, as heretofore provided. They shall be allowed thirty days’ sick leave and twenty days’ annual leave; and in fixing said salaries credit shall be given said” special policemen for the time they have served in such capacity in the same manner as is now or may hereafter be given to regular members of said Metropolitan police force.
” Approved, February 10, 1912.