LEGAL  POWERS   AND  DUTIES   OF  POLICEMEN.               65
 

POLICE   BISTR-SCTS—POILICE   JUSI'ICES.

The City is divided into three Police Districts, as follows ;

The First District comprises the First, Second, Third, Fourth,
Fifth and Sixth Wards.

The Second District comprises the Eighth, Ninth, Twelfth, Fif¬
teenth and Sixteenth Wards.

The Third District comprises the Seventh, Tenth, Eleventh, Thir¬
teenth, Fourteenih and Seventeenth Wards.

In each District there is a Police Court and Office, as follows :—

Ist District—(Lower Police Office)—At the Tombs, Centre, cor¬
ner of Franklin. Justices.—Henry W. Merritt, B. W. Osborne, and
W. W. Drinker. Clerks —Ephraim L. Snow, Sidney A. Stuart,
J. M. T. Bleakley, and .John B. Hasty.

2rf District—At the Jeffi^rson Market, Avenue 6, corner of Green¬
wich Avenue.    .Tnstice.—W. J. Roome.    Clerk.—J^". B. Mountfort.

M District—In Essex street, rear of Essex Market, Grand, cor. of
Ludlow. Ju.'stices.—Garritt Gilbert, and Robert Taylor. Clerks.—
D. M. Frye and Edwin F. Corey.

THE   LEGAL POWERS   AND  DUTIES   OF

THE POLICEMEN OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

Jurisdiction.
Sec. 38. The Policemen of the City of New-York are author¬
ized to take cognizance of all criminal otfences committed within
the following boundaries, whether on the land or on the water:
From low water mark on the Westchester side of Spyten Duyvel
Creek to the Long Island shore opposite to said creek, and to the
New Jersey shore opposite to the place where said creek einpfies
iiself into the Hudson River; from said line, southward, along Long
Island shore, at low water-mark, and along the New-Jersey shore,
at low water-mark, including the East River and the Hudson River,
and the bay between Staten Island and Long Island, together with
the islands wiihin said boundaries.

Arrests.
Sec 39. An arrest, in criminal cases, is the apprehending or de¬
taining a person to answer to a crime or otfence alleged against him,
or of which he is suspected to be guilty. To this arrest all persons,
without distincfion, are liable when accused of having committed
a criminal offence.

40.  An arrest on a criminal charge may be made in any place, or
at any time—on Sunday as well as on any other day, and in the
night as well as in the day time. But it must be borne in mind, that
in all cases in which it is stated in these instructions, that a Police¬
man may arrest without a warrant, it is necessary tliat he should
witness the commission of the ofi'ence, except the contrary be stated
in these instructions.

41.  The party arrested should be nofified of the officer's author¬
ity, and this will often prevent resistance, by taking away the pros¬
pect oTjustifying or extenuafing it.

42.  If a Policemen find his personal efforts insufficient to effect
an arrest, or if he have reason to apprehend thai resistance will be
made, he ought to require all persons present, or as many as he
shall think proper, to assist him; and all who wilfully disobey such
command of assistance, are guilty of misdemeanor.