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From the History of the New York Police Department
A resolution was passed August 4, of this year, that an inquiry be made into the expediency of associating with the several Watch departments a judicial officer to admit prisoners to bail, was referred to the Watch committee. On the eleventh of the following month a resolution was adopted providing for the sitting of Magistrates on Sundays, and during the night–the committee on application being instructed to ask the legislature to change the law to that effect. The succeeding month a resolution was offered providing for the establishing of two branches of the Police Department, to be located at the watch-houses of the Second and Third Districts, each having Justices’ clerks and Marshals to attend during the day-time and a Justice to attend at night to dispose of the cases brought up, thereby relieving the Captains of the responsibility. In the month of December, six new posts were created; two in the First District, one in the Second, and three in the Third.
The Watch Committee were directed to employ a physician to attend certain Watchmen who were injured in the riot at Anthony Street, near Elm Street, on January 1, 1827. On the fifteenth of the same month, the Watch Committee were directed to render any financial assistance necessary to the families of the wounded Watchmen. The following month provision was made to fine Constables twenty-five dollars for failing to attend before a Justice when summoned to do so.
