1. DUTY AND AUTHORITY OF POLICEMEN.] Rev. Ord. 1866. The several members of the police force of the city of Chicago, when on duty, shall devote their time and attention to the discharge of the duties of their stations, according to the laws and ordinances of the city and the rules and regulations of the board of police commissioners, and it shall be their duty, to the best of their ability, to preserve order, peace and quiet, and enforce the laws and ordinances throughout the city. They shall have power to arrest all persons in the city found in the act of violating any law or ordinance, or aiding and abetting in any such violation, and shall arrest all persons found under suspicious circumstances, and shall take all such persons so arrested to the place designated by such ordinances, rules and regulations. They shall have power and authority in the city to serve and execute warrants and other process for the apprehension and commitment of persons charged with or held for examination or trial, or taken in execution for the commission of any crime or misdemeanor, or violation of any law or ordinance of the city; and while executing or serving, or assisting in the execution or service of any such warrant or process, shall be vested with and have all the powers and authority conferred on constables at common law, and by the laws of this state.

2. POWERS OF ENTRY.] They shall have power and authority, in a peaceable manner, or, if refused admittance after demand made, with force, to enter into any house, store, grocery, shop or other building whatever, in the city, in which any person or persons may reasonably be expected to be for unlawful purposes, and if any person or persons shall be found therein guilty of any crime or misdemeanor, or violation of any ordinance for the preservation of the peace and good order of the city, or who may reasonably be suspected thereof, or who shall be aiding or abetting such person or persons so found, they shall apprehend and keep in custody such person or persons as in

cases of other arrest.

3. NEGLECT FRAUD AND MALFEASANCE.] Any member of the police force who shall neglect or refuse to perform any duty required of him by the ordinances of the city or the rules and regulations of the board of police, or who shall, in the discharge of his official duties, be guilty of any fraud, ex

tortion, oppression, favoritism, partiality, or wilful wrong or injustice, shall forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offense. 4. RESISTANCE TO POLICE-RESCUE-PENALTY.] Whoever in the city shall resist any member of the police force in the discharge of his duty, or shall in any way interfere with, or hinder or prevent him from discharging his duty as such member, or shall offer or endeavor to do so, and whoever shall, in any manner, assist any person in custody of any member of the police force to escape or attempt to escape from such custody, or shall rescue, or attempt to rescue any person in custody, shall be fined not less than three dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars.

5. ASSISTANCE TO POLICE-PENALTY.] It shall be the duty of all persons in the city, when called upon by any member of the police department, to promptly aid and assist him in the execution of his duties. Whoever shall neglect or refuse to give such aid and assistance, shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars; and if the person offending be a licensed hackman, cabman or drayman, or the driver of any licensed hackney coach, cab, omnibus, dray, wagon or other vehicle, the court or magistrate convicting shall be authorized to give judgment that the license for the said person or the driver of the vehicle be canceled and revoked.

6. FALSELY PERSONATING POLICE-PENALTY.] Any person who shall falsely represent any of the members of the police department of this city, or who shall, maliciously or with intent to deceive, use or imitate any of the signs, signals or devices adopted and used by the police department, or shall wear in public the uniform adopted as the police uniform after having been removed or suspended, shall be subject to be fined not less than three dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three months, or both.

7. DEPOTS-PERSONS AT TO OBEY-PENALTY.] Hackmen, cabmen, omnibus drivers, draymen, porters, runners and other persons, when at or about any railroad depot or station, or steamboat or canal boat landing, or other public place in the city, shall obey the commands and directions of the police officer or officers who may be stationed or doing duty at or about such depots, or stations, or landings, or other places, for the preservation of order and enforcing the ordinances. Whoever shall refuse to obey the commands and directions of a police officer, as aforesaid, shall be subject to be fined not exceeding twenty dollars.

8. MAYOR'S POLICE-APPOINTMENT-DUTIES.] The mayor is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint not to exceed four men, who are qualified by law to act as police officers, to be known as the mayor's police, whose duty shall be to look after and to prosecute any person or persons who shall vend or dispose of any article or thing of any kind whatsoever without first having obtained legal permision so to do, or who shall in any manner violate the ordinances of the said city of Chicago and to discharge such other duties, as the mayor may direct.

9. POWER TO DISMISS-COMPENSATION.] The person or persons so appointed may be dismissed from said service by the mayor at his discretion, and he or they shall receive the same compensation as is paid to the patrol police force, to be paid out of the contingent fund of said city.

10. How AUTHORIZED TO ACT.] It shall be the duty of the mayor to report the appointments made in accordance with the provisions of section eight of this chapter to the commissioners of the board of police, who shall legally empower the person or persons so appointed to discharge the duties of a police officer.

1. FALSE ALARMS BY MEANS OF PENALTY] Ord. May 29, 1865. Should any person or persons knowingly give, or cause to be given, any false alarm of fire by means of the telegraph boxes connected with the police and fire alarm telegraph, such person or persons shall be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered as other fines are recoverable.

2. WRONGFUL MANUFACTURE OF KEYS-PENALTY.] Should any person or persons make, or cause to be made, any key or keys of any fire-engine, hose, truck-house, or fire alarm telegraph box, or use, or cause to be used the same, except the mayor, the board of police and fire commissioners, board of public works and chief fire marshal, without the consent of the proper authority, such person or persons shall be subject to a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered as other fines are recoverable.

3. INTERFERING WITH WIRES-PENALTY.] All persons whatsoever, except the duly authorized agents or officers of the board of police and fire commissioners, are hereby forbidden to cut or remove, or in any way alter or interfere with any fire alarm, police, water or other telegraph wire belonging to the city of Chicago; and any person violating this section shall be subject. to a penalty of fifty dollars, to be recovered as other fines for the violation of city ordinances are recoverable.

Rev.

1. LICENSES-How ISSUED-BOND-FEE-TO EXPIRE, WHEN.] Ord. 1866. Any person of good moral character, on application to the mayor, in writing, shall be entitled to a license to act as public porter and runner, upon his executing, for the use of the city of Chicago, a bond, with two or more good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the mayor, in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned to observe and keep all ordinances on this subject, and upon the payment of the sum of twelve dollars per annum, and no other fees: Provided, that all licenses issued or granted under this chapter shall expire or be renewed on the first day of April in each and every year.

2. LICENSE-REVOCATION AND SUBSTITUTION-PROVISO-WHO LIABLE FOR ACTS OF.] The keeper or keepers of any hotel or public house, who shall have obtained a license for any porter or runner in his, her or their employ, may, at his, her or their option, have the same revoked, and be entitled to another for the remaining portion of the year for which such license shall originally have been granted, without additional charge or fee therefor: Provided, that no such license shall be changed or transferred to any other hotel or public house without an order from the mayor or common council for that purpose first had and obtained; and each and every keeper or proprietor of any such hotel or public house shall be personally liable for each and every violation of this chapter, or any clause thereof, when committed by any porter or runner in his, her or their employ, or who shall be acting under the license granted to any such hotel or public house keeper or proprietor, or either of them, for the use of such hotel or public house.

3. TO BE LICENsed-Badge-BUSINESS CARD.] No person shall act as porter or runner, either for himself or any public house or hotel, or in any manner act in that capacity, or ask the patronage or custom of any traveler or other person for any public house, hotel, steamboat, canal boat, propeller, railroad depot or station, transportation company, stage company or line, canal or steamboat landing or dock, or other place of business of the person

or persons, company, line or corporation by whom he shall be employed. unless he shall first obtain a license, or be furnished with one by the person or persons, company, line or corporation for whom he is acting, according to the provisions hereof; nor unless he shall, when so acting as public porter or runner as aforesaid, wear conspicuously upon his breast a badge as follows, to-wit: A brass plate, elliptical in form, with a catch or pin to attach the same to the front of the breast, upon which shall be painted or engraved in legible letters, of not less than three-eights of an inch in length, the name of the public house, hotel, railroad depot or station, or line, boat or company, or other place for which the said porter or runner is acting, and also, in legible letters, of not less than one-half of an inch in length, the word "porter" or "runner as the wearer may be, and also in legible letters, not less than fiveeights of an inch in length, the number of the license of the said porter or runner. The said plate shall not be less than three and one-half inches in length, nor less than two inches in width. And no person in said city shall in any manner act as runner for any public house, hotel, company, boarding-house or person, unless such runner shall present, to the person or persons solicited, a card, plainly printed in a language understood by such person, containing the name of the person, company or place, and the business and location of the company, person or place for whom such runner may be acting, and if he be a runner for a boarding-house, hotel, or other place of entertainment such card shall contain also the price of lodging, and of board, by the day, by the week, by the single meal, and the price of conveyance of persons and baggage to and from such boarding house, hotel or other place of entertainment, conspicuously printed on such card or bill.

4. SOLICITING FOR VEHICLES-PENALTY.] No person shall, at any railroad depot or station, steamboat, canal boat, propeller, dock or landing, or other place in this city, ask or solicit any travelers, or other person or persons, to ride in or use any hackney coach, cab, omnibus or other vehicle which runs for hire and for the conveyance of passengers, unless he or they shall have a license for that purpose first had and obtained: Provided, that nothing herein contained is intended to prevent the owner or licensed driver of any licensed hackney coach, cab or omnibus from notifying any person that his hackney coach, cab or omnibus is licensed, and runs for hire for the conveyance of passengers.

5. RUNNERS, ETC. AT DEPOTS-WHO MAY ACT-PROVISO.] Rev. Ord. 1866; amend. Ord. Sept. 7, 1868. No person shall, as a runner or porter, at any place on any railroad or railway grounds, or on any street adjacent thereto, ask, solicit or engage any person to repair to any steamboat, railroad or other public conveyance, excepting such agents for other railroads, steamboats or other public conveyances as may be authorized thereto by the person having charge of the said passenger houses respectively; and persons so authorized shall, at all times when on duty, wear appropriate badges designating their employment: Provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any licensed hackman asking or soliciting custom for his hack while wearing the badge specified in section five, of the chapter concerning vehicles.

6. DECEIT PROHIBITED.] No porter or runner shall at any time or place