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Power to grant rewards,
No. 11 of 1900.
POLICE FORCE.
stable for misconduct or neglect of duty, or to approve of the reduction of any sergeant, lance-sergeant, or constable to a lower grade or class.
25.-(1) The Governor is hereby empowered to grant rewards to any officers, subordinate officers, or constables who may distinguish themselves by extraordinary diligence, zeal, or exertion in the execution of their duties, and the Captain Superintendent shall report to the Governor any such officer, subordinate officer, or constable who may so distinguish himself, stating the nature of the services, etc.
Provision of stations and furniture.
* Officer or constable may apprehend service.
(2) The Governor shall have power to grant distinctive badges or medals to officers or constables for long and faithful or extraordinary services, and to withdraw the same if the recipient is subsequently guilty of misconduct.
26. It shall be lawful for the Governor to direct suitable stations for the quarters and accommodation of the force, and furniture suitable for the same, to be provided, and to direct the erection, fitting up, and furnishing of suitable premises as places for instructing, training, and drilling the force, as occasion may require.
PART III.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
[s. 27, rep. No. 1 of 1912.]
28. (1) It shall be lawful for any officer of police to apprehend any person who may be charged with, or whom he may reasonably suspect of being guilty of, any offence without any warrant for that purpose, and whether he has seen such offence committed or not.
person or suspected of committing an offence; bail.
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(2) Whenever any person so apprehended is brought without warrant to the officer in charge of any police station, it shall be lawful for such officer, in a case of any offence which is not a felony, if he deems it proper to do so and if no Magistrate is in attendance at his office, to take bail by recognizance, with or without sureties, in a sufficient sum, without fee or reward from such person, conditioned that such person shall appear for examination before a Magistrate at some place to be specified in the recognizance, being the earliest time then next after when a Magistrate will be in attendance at his office; and every recognizance so taken shall be of equal obligation on the parties entering into the same, and liable to the same proceedings for a Magistrate.
(3) The sums so taken into such recognizance shall be kept for the use of the person before whom such person does not appear according to the recognizance.
ance: Provided that on application to discharge such recognizance by him, the Magistrate at any time as he thinks fit may discharge and determine the same without reward.
29. In case any member of the force is charged before a Magistrate, no proceedings shall be irregularity: general issue of the warrant, writing of a summons, or anything done in obedience thereto, or to a verdict or gist.
30. If any person keeps any place for the purpose of gaming, and knowingly harbors or permits any person to assemble therein during any lawful hour, shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of dollars, together with such costs as the Magistrate thinks fit, and shall be liable to imprisonment.
31. If any person acting in the...